Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 2 | I have to remain free to carry that project through . |
| 3 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |
| 4 | Bull looks set to join former boss Barry Fry at Southend , while current Underhill supremo Edwin Stein puts the total value of his squad at £2.16 million . |
| 5 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 6 | The cabinet 's current review of the tax now looks likely to heed this advice and go for the quick chop . |
| 7 | Dennis 's desire to retain McLaren 's lucrative Shell contract in the face of Renault 's close links with Elf still looks likely to scupper any deal . |
| 8 | Such a happy situation does not , unfortunately , exist in Italy where the magistrates appear unwilling to trust any government official or technical expert . |
| 9 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 10 | Congress , time and time again , the majority of our sponsored MPs appear unable to sustain any sort of attack on this government 's policies . |
| 11 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 12 | It seemed strange to make that argument , Mr Cook said , when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground . |
| 13 | It is possible to scroll right to give another screen . |
| 14 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 15 | But more and more intellectuals seemed prepared to take this risk and went on to talk of Chaplin 's techniques , his ‘ dolefulness ’ , his sense of rhythm , and his mastery of myth and fancy . |
| 16 | This took some doing , as they seemed prepared to stay all night . |
| 17 | As my living was eked from my imagination , it now seemed sensible to link that imagination to my own healing . |
| 18 | It seemed sensible to reserve each end bay of the roof space for a bedroom , lit by a new window installed either in an adjacent roof-slope or in the flanking gable . |
| 19 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 20 | Neither seemed willing to accept that lobbying on behalf of special interests and trading in order to build coalitions in congress are both necessary and entirely legitimate activities in the context of the American pluralist system . |
| 21 | We may also say that the linguistic expressions ( or their meanings ) that appear in particular token constructions identify entities and properties ( and we shall feel free to extend this use of identify to the activity of the speakers and writers who use the constructions ) . |
| 22 | They added : ‘ Some men might feel fortunate to experience this sort of thing . ’ |
| 23 | Can she have seen fit to pursue some errand of blessing elsewhere ? |
| 24 | Indeed Lord Reid seemed unwilling to draw any distinction between challenges on procedural or substantive grounds . |
| 25 | This question , said Mrs B , seemed to be of particular significance , but she had felt unable to make any sense of it . |
| 26 | One department is concerned with worldwide issues ; for example , when looking at the outlook for energy , it does not feel qualified to do this type of study itself . |
| 27 | Neither seemed able to elicit any information . |
| 28 | It took time before Byrnes began to make full use of the American foreign service , let alone to give much thought to working with the British Foreign Office . |
| 29 | With Iraq not currently exporting [ see p. 38598 ] and Kuwait only gradually returning to the market , OPEC 's other 11 member states had felt able to defer any reimposition of output restrictions , particularly in view of the serious uncertainty about Soviet supplies . |
| 30 | Girls who are very aware of parental disapproval may not feel able to take this step and also not want to run the risk of parents somehow finding out that they had gone to the doctor or the clinic . |