Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , still clutching the slices of unyielding satin to her , Nicandra wondered how it was possible to acknowledge fitly the immediate and selfless gallantry she had seen . |
| 2 | In this way , it is possible to estimate how the chemical stability of a sound recording will fare with time . |
| 3 | For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available . |
| 4 | Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage . |
| 5 | It is interesting to see where the original team has gone . |
| 6 | It is going to be interesting to see how the traditional publishers react . |
| 7 | Given this apparent potential it is interesting to see how the various manufacturers are coping with the current market expansion . |
| 8 | It 'll be interesting to see how the Kevlar speaker performs . |
| 9 | At the same time the USSR managed to cultivate reasonable neighbourly relations with the Asian CENTO states and used this to dilute further the military cohesiveness of the CENTO Pact . |
| 10 | We were interested to see how the hierarchical model would scale up , given better input data than that used in the ARPA project . |
| 11 | The employer , or the architect on his behalf , for certain sections of a contract may provide a list , in or attached to the contract bills , of at least three sub-contractors from which the builder must select one able and willing to carry out the respective work . |
| 12 | So , Pomerance argued it should be easier to process just the right hand signal if they 're not grouped together , if they if the processing system does n't tend to group them as a single entity . |
| 13 | Bott was given huge amounts of space on the inside pages of Ink in December 1971 and January 1972 to set out the scrambled views on life which he was culling from a variety of standard left-wing and anarchist gurus . |
| 14 | Often a councillor will serve as a governor of a number of primary schools and , given the slightest encouragement , be more than willing to discuss how the other schools are tackling specific problems and their plans for the future . |
| 15 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 16 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 17 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 18 | Perhaps now we 'll see a happier Oval under a manager who 's prepared to clear out the old guard from ex-stalwarts down to assistant kitman . |
| 19 | Most encouraging for the bookseller is the buoyant hardback market for genre titles : in part this is a result of the continuing proliferation of series which leave the poor punter desperate for the next instalment and willing to fork out the extra few bob for the hardcover . |
| 20 | I usually start at the walls because I find it easier to think up the general colour scheme first , but many people prefer to start with the floor because they automatically think of carpet and presume that this will be the most expensive item . |
| 21 | Children 's bedrooms are usually small areas with light-coloured walls , so there should be enough reflected light to lighten up the main scene of action , but if you do bring in any additional low-level lighting , take care to position it where it will not get in the way of the camera or shine into the lens . |
| 22 | It would be wrong to add back the extra depreciation charge that Shaw plc has borne . |
| 23 | But it is uncertain how far Mr Rafsanjani is willing to roll back the Islamic revolution . |
| 24 | Most surprising of all , it has demonstrated that the scientific method , as it is presently formulated , is not adequate to explain even the physical universe , let alone human beings and their psyches . |
| 25 | Their spokesman said that the men were prepared to close down the generating plant immediately , but it would mean that the grid would go and that factories and hospitals would be without power for an indefinite time . |
| 26 | It is understood that Sock Shop directors were in the US yesterday trying to find someone who might be prepared to take over the American end of the operation and continue to run it under the Sock Shop name . |
| 27 | One correspondent asserts that whilst there is no shortage of organists , there is a dearth of those who are prepared to take on the regular commitment of parish church music . |
| 28 | The society has launched a search for an actor willing to take on the key role of Young Walsingham in their latest production . |
| 29 | As competition for places on the Kindertransporte mounted to panic proportions , the chances of success turned increasingly on knowing the right people — an official who could hurry through an application or , more critically , someone in Britain who was willing to take on the financial responsibility of acting as a guarantor . |
| 30 | In 1973 , a Japanese motoring enthusiast bought a Super Seven and before long he was back , determined to import the cars into Japan and more than willing to take on the red tape . |