Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) .
2 are clearly right to emphasise that new forms of politics and people 's support of these politics must be in some way connected to changing social structures and crises within capitalist society .
3 Quite apart from the availability of incidence information , a longitudinal study makes it possible to see if certain events regularly precede others , e.g. ‘ Do people with a certain laboratory report consistently develop liver disease ? ’
4 It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems .
5 It would be interesting to see whether other mechanisms , besides CDM , are capable of reconciling HDM with observations .
6 It will be interesting to see whether these objectives are attained .
7 Personally , I would not object to payment but it would be interesting to see if all users would contribute .
8 Longer words are easier to see than short ones .
9 At least as much interest has been stirred up by another special ability of the acoustic microscope ; to see beneath the surface , look into things , whether or not they are transparent to light and other forms of radiation .
10 DOME TENTS OFFER LOTS OF SPACE AND ARE LIGHTER TO CARRY THAN OTHER TYPES OF TENT .
11 Patrick had been interested to see that all traces of the damage the insurgents had wrought in the Green — the trenches they had dug , the trees they had felled — had vanished , and the only evidence of the 1916 Rising were the bullet holes in the stonework of the hotel where the rebels had fired on the British troops positioned on the roof and in some of the upper rooms .
12 No what we said was that if you were interested to see if two variables are associated , this is for a pi squared you might look at sex differences , men and women , and smoking or non-smoking now if they were associated what we 've said is that you might for example ex in fact women 'll probably smoke more than men .
13 Alternatively , there are often many puppies to choose from , and these will be much easier to train than older animals , as bad habits will not yet be ingrained .
14 Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it !
15 In the face of such evidence it was a little difficult for at least some of the non-poor to accept that such conditions should continue and that free enterprise could bring them to an end largely unassisted .
16 We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route .
17 So , paradoxically , smaller black holes might actually turn out to be easier to detect than large ones !
18 You may find , for example , that curved designs are much easier to create than solid ideas , or vice versa .
19 It was one thing to suggest that God might have instituted a ‘ law of progress ’ to achieve His goals in Nature , quite another to suggest that human beings were merely highly developed animals .
20 Likewise it would be wrong to assume that economic difficulties worked to push the gentry increasingly into the Tory camp .
21 It would , however , be totally wrong to assume that all apparitions are angels on assignment .
22 It is entirely wrong to assume that older women , who have been involved in employment during their lives , should experience retirement as any more or less significant than it is for older men .
23 Where possible , cut out the ends of the rotted area so that the new piece will fit at an open angle , making it much easier to fit than right-angled joints .
24 Both Mr Hyslop and Mr Guest said Mr Newbegin was wrong to suggest that 15-year-old models were uneconomical .
25 For , instance , inanimate objects are typically easier to identify than animate objects .
26 It is sometimes easier to hear that two words have the same pattern .
27 This makes them very unpleasant to use and some residents will prefer not to .
28 Is this to deny that living things obey the laws of physics ?
29 Low-growing crocuses and irises will be easier to manage than full-size daffodils , which get beaten about by wind in exposed situations .
30 Financial and technical problems are always easier to solve than human problems .
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