Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Females are just as colourful as males , and it is hopeless to try to sex this fish on the basis of colour |
| 2 | The Yugoslav government has clearly been right to try to switch inter-regional aid from a grant ( or ‘ loan ’ ) basis to a direct investment basis . |
| 3 | More recently , however , interest in the left and right brain is due to work involving split-brain patients . |
| 4 | More recently , however , interest in the left and right brain is due to work involving split-brain patients . |
| 5 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 6 | As I have already remarked , the king himself intervened in 1620 to try to eliminate female transvestism . |
| 7 | Expand this to encourage involving other adults , and we should feel in tune with the NCC . |
| 8 | However , it is interesting to try to make some estimates even if we have to accept that they are , at best , only crude guidelines . |
| 9 | When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips , be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables . |
| 10 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 11 | Now that men and women live longer , many people suggest that it is unrealistic to expect to sustain one marriage for a lifetime . |
| 12 | But I just could n't believe that people would be willing to do do that kind of thing , you know . |
| 13 | Before going into a residential or nursing home it is sensible to consider giving any valuables not in everyday use to a close relative or friend for safekeeping . |
| 14 | They are also prepared to contemplate discussing possible relationships that might exist between an individual 's language and his or her cognitive functioning . |
| 15 | As part of its effort to enter the international nuclear market , the Indian Atomic Energy Commission has announced that it is prepared to reprocess spent nuclear fuels from other countries . |
| 16 | For this reason , they feel that the siege of Londonderry has never been lifted and they are prepared to die to defend that heritage . |
| 17 | He is prepared to die to end this war . |
| 18 | It is probably wrong to attempt to define electronic publishing unless it is done in a very general way . |
| 19 | What what would you have done wrong to get say one strap ? |
| 20 | It is the notion of an artist willing to attempt to maintain traditional ties and yet acknowledging the fact that he can not relax in the security of the past , that art must change . |
| 21 | Widespread flooding in Kashmir was reported on Sept. 12 to have killed 220 people [ see p. 39098 for Pakistan flood disaster ] . |
| 22 | Unless all representatives are to be seen it is fairer to refuse to see any representatives at all until preliminary screening has been carried out . |
| 23 | Kneese ( 1984 ) describes a methodology being developed to determine how much people are willing to spend to preserve good visibility conditions in national park areas . |
| 24 | He 's willing to spend to stop that happening again . |
| 25 | It would be much easier to begin to resolve this argument if we knew more about how advertising works , and if we could be much more sophisticated than we are about how to relate target audiences and purchasing patterns to advertising . |
| 26 | Studies have shown that a proportion of patients are willing to travel to receive elective surgery more speedily , but there is little evidence on this question in relation to other services . |
| 27 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 28 | After all , as the planners maintain , government legislation requires every local authority to provide a full range of services and so it is only logical and business-like to plan to provide these things cheaply . |
| 29 | Therefore , it is dangerous to try to explain present-day landforms merely by the operation of present processes of erosion acting over very long periods of time . |
| 30 | I had years in Latin America , the Far East , all over the place , and any time I came back to London , well , there was too much to do to have much time for somewhere like ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and anyway I was married by then and my wife would n't have approved . |