Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed to be simple for users and hard for learners , to aid readers and to hinder writers , and to speed the reading of the able while condemning the less able to semi-literacy . |
| 2 | But the Economists ' Bookshop , near the London School of Economics , which seemed the most likely to be interested in such a topic , failed , after an extensive search of its microfiche catalogue , to find any trace of it . |
| 3 | The first description seemed a little vague to us , but Bill McMahon , of auctioneers and valuers Outhwaite and Litherland , made an educated guess . |
| 4 | Big softy or not , it seemed a little foolish to even consider a 1.25″ female with a 6″ male , so I decided to wait until she was rather larger . |
| 5 | On May 25th America 's AT&T unveiled the most ambitious to date . |
| 6 | But it is generally agreed the more suited to our body shape and weight , the better for our general health particularly as we spend , on average , a third of our lives in bed . |
| 7 | Reward witty , fast-thinking and/or humorous role-playing here with an additional EP award for the characters whose lines add the most fun to this encounter ! |
| 8 | Generally comprising a gently undulating to rugged low-lying peneplain , and local valley and hillsides and lower mountain slopes , the terrain includes non-rocky gently undulating land ( similar to the till-covered landscape in Lewis ) , slightly to moderately rocky land with a variety of slopes , and very rocky land with rock pavements or abundant rocky knolls and ridges . |
| 9 | The subjects can look a little ridiculous to us too , the old-fashioned costumes , the strange practice of sunbathing standing up ! |
| 10 | Well , give , you did sound a little scathing to there of my darling . |
| 11 | One possibility is that only those who fail to fulfil their biological drives need mysticism as an escape , but the rich and famous seem no more immune to the lure of the Maharishi than the rest of us . |
| 12 | His partner was the curvaceous Jill Ireland , who made it all seem no less exciting to her than would have been an embrace from Gregory Peck . |
| 13 | Whichever appears the most serious to her can be explored further . |
| 14 | A member of the working class is more likely to benefit through securing the benefits of collective organisation while doing the least possible to actually create such collectives . |
| 15 | Sheldrake 's hypothesis predicts that it should be easier for people who do not speak Turkish to learn the real rhyme , even though it seems no less opaque to non-Turkish speakers than the fake one , because millions of Turks have already learned the rhyme in the past . |
| 16 | In Anderson 's terms , they ‘ struggled ’ and education may have seemed a little remote to them as it was not freely available in most parts of the West Indies until the 1940s . |
| 17 | This , however , seems a little unfair to Matza . |
| 18 | It is sometimes convenient to overwork the most efficient to the point where they become exhausted , but this is the quickest way to introduce bad habits such as leaving a kill or disregarding a rabbit tucked up at the end of a hole . |
| 19 | People who see the world differently , and therefore need to communicate , both for mutual education and to avoid conflict , may seem the least likely to be able to do so . |
| 20 | This can prove a little strenuous to those who climb slowly ( hint ! ) . |
| 21 | The name Gazza does seem a little insulting to the footballer . |
| 22 | He can seem a little wild to some people , but we seem to have a way of connecting and there 's hardly any friction between us . |
| 23 | For one thing , the material was patterned , and Clara was going through a stage at which the uncertainty of her taste made her prefer the strictly plain to the figured . |
| 24 | Czech Industry Minister Jan Vrba stated that of 3,246 large enterprises , 1,776 , considered the most attractive to foreign investors , would be privatized in the first phase . |