Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tough game to start with too … team news is that Paul Kee looks set to play in goal … |
| 2 | He adds : ‘ It 's a drag that a place where teenagers were listening to music was n't considered appropriate to talk about AIDS . |
| 3 | IT is becoming commonplace to think of sport as a ‘ leisure industry ’ . |
| 4 | Nor can Kundry , a woman who saw Christ on his way to Calvary , and who is being used by a magician , Klingsor , to tempt Parsifal to fall into sensuality . |
| 5 | 2.20 : Reminded Senior to check with Area 4 re . |
| 6 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 7 | This is , however , mixed in with a more primitive element relating rustic to savage through fertility rituals . |
| 8 | They left London that same evening and got straight to work on arrival at Lusaka next morning . |
| 9 | In a vigorous and ultimately successful seven-year campaign , CLEAR forced the government to admit both the exposure to lead due to lead in petrol , and the health hazard posed by lead as such . |
| 10 | Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence , but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep . |
| 11 | Can you please arrange for a cheque to be raised for the sum of £55.00 , to be made payable to BROADCAST in payment of continuing subscription fees . |
| 12 | Following the publication of er draft figures , I discussed these with the districts , and where it was felt appropriate to take on board s er suggestions made by the districts , this was done . |
| 13 | At the time , after years of wartime austerity , consumers were so relieved to sink their teeth into a nice slice of meat that they seemed content to remain in ignorance about its origins . |
| 14 | Did you go to the sort of school where it was made easy to go into science , or did you go to the sort of school where nice girls did the arts or something quite different ? |
| 15 | The girl seemed likely to continue into adulthood with substantial social and emotional difficulties . |
| 16 | In 1960 the pattern which had emerged seemed likely to remain in force for some time to come , with the EEC countries preferring a maximum of integration and the remainder opting for a minimal level of intergovernmental association . |
| 17 | It takes a tough , well organized subordinate to cope with management by inertia . |
| 18 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 19 | Given the length of your own break in service , and any efforts you have made to update yourself in any or all of these areas , would you feel confident to return to practice tomorrow ? |
| 20 | ‘ ( 1 ) The cash equivalent of any benefit chargeable to tax under section 61 above is an amount equal to the cost of the benefit , less so much ( if any ) of it as is made good by the employee to those providing the benefit . |
| 21 | Clare baked nothing that could be found at the local baker and charged what she considered exorbitant prices , which people seemed happy to pay in cash . |
| 22 | It is here that we shall find the explanation for the lively inconsistency of his thinking , masked though it was by the illusion of sweet reason he seemed able to create at will . |
| 23 | She set up everywhere she went a series of dependency relationships , attaching herself either to the compassionate , the powerful , or the merely expedient , when her lack of judgement often led her to be rejected , robbed or ill-treated , but — again a psychotic trait — she seemed unable to learn by experience . |
| 24 | This would include the opportunity of subsidised housing and , if this were not to be made available immediately , then additional general welfare or family benefits would be made available to pay for accommodation as necessary . |
| 25 | He set up his school in Edinburgh and in 1838 graduates of that school were made eligible to serve as army veterinary surgeons . |
| 26 | It was a move forced on him by the weakness of the rest and seemed certain to end in failure when Ludwig started his chase with 10 miles left . |
| 27 | Father may feel obliged to pay for part of the event . |
| 28 | Later , in June 1989 , it was reported that she was proposing to the Lord Chancellor that the Children Bill should reverse a decision which she and other members of the Court of Appeal had felt obliged to make excluding hearsay evidence . |
| 29 | But because she had not felt ready to go to bed with him he had punished her by trying to destroy her self-confidence . |
| 30 | As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil . |