Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , when there is a baby in the pram and a two- or three-year-old to attend to , is no mean feat . |
| 2 | However , if you have no replacements , be sure to use more club than usual to allow for the decreased distance . |
| 3 | One that gradually took the ice from her veins and relaxed her until she felt as snug as a bug and ready to purr like a kitten . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that the great majority of the population were ready to accept the return of Anglicanism and eager to participate in the services outlined in the revised Prayer Book of 1662 . |
| 5 | Between them Stavrogin and Dasha Shatov , Shatov 's sister , the girl to whom the letter is addressed , have conjured the word ‘ nurse ’ which is a term of art as metaphysical as anything in Notes from Underground and impossible to match in the other post-Siberian novels . |
| 6 | A circulation plan that interrupted movement through the imposition of frequent detours and culs-de-sac was seen to be stressful for drivers and likely to lead to detours through neighbouring streets . |
| 7 | Then he 'd inherited and blown the lot , only alcoholism and smack-addiction to show for it after eighteen months . |
| 8 | However , all this was in the future and hard to visualise on our first visit . |
| 9 | Now the day-trippers arrive from Holland and Belgium , Germany and France , excited about the weakness of the pound and eager to get into Marks & Spencer . |
| 10 | In this report , it accused the asbestos industry of deliberately pursuing profit in the face of known dangers , and ‘ in the light of the damage done to people working in the industry and likely to occur in the future , … it is simply incredible ’ that nothing much is done about it . |
| 11 | Powerful New Zealand Test forward George Mann has hardly had the best of luck with injury , but he is now back in action and ready to challenge for a regular first team place again . |
| 12 | Living-room seating should be as adaptable as your lifestyle demands and able to cope with crowded parties as well as quiet evenings if need be . |
| 13 | The aim was to reach students in the Fourth to Sixth Form age group by setting up workshops and visits to the Hayward Gallery , persuading professional photographers to go to as many schools as possible to talk about their own work and the Magnum show , and encouraging ‘ young hopefuls ’ to shoot and print some of their own work . |
| 14 | We need to encourage as many schools as possible to shift from the third to the second , and from the second to the first category . |
| 15 | You have learned to look hard and analyse a complex situation , devise a detailed strategy for solving it , and then carefully carry it out over a period of time , revising your plan where necessary to cope with unforeseen difficulties . |
| 16 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 17 | Controlled processes are generally assumed to be voluntary , flexible and capacity limited while automatic ones are highly efficient , unavoidable , resistant to modification , not subject to capacity limitations and able to occur without awareness ( LaBerge , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | I use pale olive green and ochre to wash over the main tree , with the shadow softened using a dark olive green . |
| 19 | Alter the dialogue to demonstrate failure of parent and professional to agree on the problem behaviour . |
| 20 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
| 21 | We have chosen the South Face , for we fear the Normal Route will no longer do for our insatiable appetites , but as we gain the foot of the face the snow worsens desperately and Enrique if obliged to wade through powder to a dubious perch on the lip of the bergschrund . |
| 22 | Closing date for this year 's writers ' bursaries from Northern Arts , buying time or a bit of peace and quiet to write at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre , is May 29 . |
| 23 | This stance left Labour with nothing to say in the last week of its campaign and unwilling to communicate with anyone outside its own ranks , except through the media . |
| 24 | Very Cocteau , said Wilkie , and Alexander buttoned his head very firmly into his Orphic helmet , thus becoming deaf to Frederica 's brightness and absurd to look at , globular white anonymity above the beautiful , clean , white-clothed , untouchable long body . |
| 25 | The committee recommends that the boards of all listed companies should comply with the code and encourages as many other companies as possible to aim at meeting its requirements . |
| 26 | At the same meeting Vial was asked to move into the house , and to procure such temporary assistance as necessary to prepare for reading lectures in October . |
| 27 | The court concluded this part of its judgment by explaining why it regarded the discretionary powers of the trial judge as insufficient to safeguard against an abuse of the power of interrogation , and by stating , at p. 740 : |
| 28 | While the WTTERC , based at Oxford Brookes University and anxious to hear from more UK hotels with active environmental programmes * , continues its task of establishing a research base , identifying problem areas and probing ways of improving environmental practice , how bad an environmental offender is this industry ? |
| 29 | And Joseph Fernandez 's old job has other complications : being second-guessed continuously by an unelected board of education that puts its small moral agenda above all else , sabotaged by the remains of corrupt school boards , starved of federal money and unable to settle on a contract with the teachers ' union . |
| 30 | Employers may be sifting through dozens of forms and unwilling to plough through a lot of waffle . |