Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the abolition of licensing and the restoration of private building would again set them free to perform these tasks . |
| 2 | It left me free to do all kinds of other things that I wanted to do . |
| 3 | To many middle-class women , Mrs Ozal is no distant Eva Peron but someone able to overcome familiar problems — including a set of overbearing in-laws . |
| 4 | And the only way round that situation , that may not even amount to crime when they 're put in fear , it may amount to yobbos on the pavement , or people er , cycling on the pavement or just being their usual threatening loutish selves . |
| 5 | It had shaken her faith , made her afraid to form deep attachments in case somehow the pain was repeated … |
| 6 | She would mince about in her old fashioned winkle-picker shoes not knowing the first thing about dancing . |
| 7 | Omar had a young servant called Demise , and there was another fifteen-year-old lad called Yusuf Nico , who Omar said would make himself useful doing odd jobs . |
| 8 | ‘ Your name 's been given by the murdered man 's sister , Miss Charlotte Ladram , as somebody able to corroborate certain aspects of the evidence she 's laid before us . ’ |
| 9 | Still , its nice to know some things hardly change . |
| 10 | However , as has already been made clear , preventive programmes can not be planned for everyone likely to face such events . |
| 11 | In the cases it has dealt with to date , the Commission has shown itself willing to clear horizontal mergers which produce high market shares , where there is strong competition from actual or potential competitors . |
| 12 | Are you still having those conversations with Marcus ? ’ |
| 13 | Abbreviations : If you regularly have to take notes about the same subject , you should find it quite easy to develop your own abbreviations which will make you able to take those notes even more quickly . |
| 14 | JE : How were you able to overcome these difficulties with Britten 's publisher ? |
| 15 | The micro , which is itself able to display rich patterns of behaviour , perhaps presents us with these opportunities for the first time . |
| 16 | Only then are you ready to consider other factors . |
| 17 | However , an analysis of the mechanics of historical and oppressive tragedy/impairment/ disability representation is not in itself sufficient to change those forms of representation . |
| 18 | To get talks with the ANC started , Mr de Klerk must do everything possible to free political prisoners and bring home refugees . |
| 19 | Will he bring home to Ministers on the continent the fact that the headage basis would prove devastating for hill and upland farmers in the United Kingdom and will he do everything possible to make those Ministers see our point of view ? |
| 20 | I do everything possible to help Regional Secretaries . |
| 21 | On 16 and 17 June , Sotheby 's sold the existing stock of the New Bond Street firm of jewellers , Tessiers Ltd. , a landmark whose old fashioned arched windows retain strong nostalgic connotations for many people . |
| 22 | Right now he 's probably the number one rock star and teen idol in the Soviet Union something impossible to imagine several years ago . |
| 23 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 24 | Others found that the sheer workload of the course left them unable to develop outside interests , such as reading or the theatre . |
| 25 | They made a conscious decision not to deal with the new carpet superstores , largely because profit margins would be so low in that their bulk purchasing power made them able to demand low margins . |
| 26 | Is there potential to meet future challengers ? |
| 27 | Are they right to use domestic cats ? |
| 28 | It now leaves him free to criticise other results of the massively funded but unregulated conservation industry . |
| 29 | This left him free to consider specific factors , relationships and techniques in a theoretically less encumbered ( if sometimes dangerously speculative ) way . |
| 30 | Faced with the implacable hostility of the Dwarfs it seemed to him foolish to maintain huge armies overseas , particularly with a more pressing threat to the Elf heartland . |