Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no indication or evidence that under such circumstances contact can be confusing or lead to divided loyalties . |
| 2 | This cleans the slate making it less likely that you will feel guilty or succumb to any future pressure or emotional blackmail . |
| 3 | In looking at them one will frequently find that the main element of dissatisfaction is sexual or allied to sexual matters . |
| 4 | And there they 'd be chatting across to one another or come to each others ' doors and h you know pass time of day having a little chat about one thing and another . |
| 5 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 6 | That structure need not be rigid or too formalised but it must be clear and known to those in the firm . |
| 7 | He sold the chemist 's business in 1872 and moved to new premises at Plymouth Hoe . |
| 8 | carved and polished to great smoothness . |
| 9 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 10 | Finding three of these items is very interesting and leads to various questions . |
| 11 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 12 | Operations to reverse sterilisation do exist but the chances of success are not high and depend to some extent on the type of sterilisation operation carried out originally . |
| 13 | Notice too the melodic contour — two sections beginning high and falling to low points . |
| 14 | Funerals were free and open to all . |
| 15 | In addition , the service has always been free and open to all individuals . |
| 16 | The issue we will examine is why delinquency is so attractive to some and unappealing to other youth . |
| 17 | I urge the Secretary of State to say why , when business person after business person tells him , ’ Of course , we must have a single European currency , ’ he continues to insist on the opt-out that is so unrealistic and damaging to British industry ? |
| 18 | In addition , by considering scalar wave perturbations in the impulsive wave case , they have also shown that the quasiregular singularities are unstable and convert to scalar curvature singularities . |
| 19 | De Morgen 's correspondent interpreted Vercruysse 's decision as ‘ a reaction against Hoet 's preparations for Documenta , which Vercruysse has labelled showy and pandering to public taste ’ . |
| 20 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 21 | Alternatively , it may appear too acrobatic or athletic because the choreographer has been so concerned with the turning of the pages of a picture book that there is no explanation why one picture follows another and leads to another and yet another until the curtain falls . |
| 22 | And they became very much afraid and said to one another who then is this , that even the wind and the sea obey him ? |
| 23 | The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ? |
| 24 | One of the leaders of the Beijing Spring movement in 1978-79 which had created a " Democracy Wall " in the capital , Wei had been arrested in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years in prison [ see pp. 30495-96 ] . |
| 25 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 26 | Finally , individual factors , both personal and related to particular operations , may be involved . |
| 27 | His first marriage , in 1927 , to the operetta singer , Carlotta Vanconti , was unsuccessful and led to protracted divorce proceedings , which were not finalized until 1936 ; in that year he married his second wife , the English stage and film actress , Diana Napier , and settled in England . |
| 28 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 29 | I remember when I was about thirteen and listened to that song |
| 30 | 1 The 80/20 case When 20 per cent of the records generate 80 per cent of the accesses to a file , and the file is loaded in a random order , the percentage of accesses to synonyms will be the same as the percentage of synonyms ; if the file is 90 per cent packed and randomized to individual record storage positions , accesses to synonyms will be 34.063 per cent of all accesses . |