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

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1 A prospective purchaser would presumably be hesitant to proceed in such circumstances without adequate insurance protection .
2 I think it unnecessary to go through those cases , or to examine the particular grounds on which each of them was decided .
3 Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years .
4 It is sometimes possible to arrange for both ministers to be at the ceremony , sharing the responsibility between them .
5 In Fig. 14.1 , with interest rate r 1 , it will be profitable to invest in all projects up to I 1 , with I 1 itself breaking even .
6 It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement .
7 As a result , it is possible to see in such groups the collective responses normally associated with shopfloor workers .
8 It is possible to see from these studies that differences between deaf people and hearing people are small when the language differences are taken into account .
9 Police said they had no idea why Roberts was at the court as he was not due to appear on any charges .
10 It is usual to provide for such circumstances by permitting expulsion where a partner , through ill health etc , is prevented from performing his obligations to the firm .
11 ‘ It would be inconceivable , in the opinion of the Court , that Article 6(1) should describe in detail the procedural guarantees afforded to parties in a pending law suit and should not first protect that which alone makes it in fact possible to benefit from such guarantees , that is access to a court .
12 Technically it is possible to adjust for these discrepancies by applying regression coefficients to the data , but even after this is done , major Japanese lead-time advantages — of 13 to 14 months — remain .
13 It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts .
14 If repetitive sequences are to be probed , because of the stronger expected hybridization signal , it may be possible to work with fewer slides and mitotic cells but the need for banding remains .
15 While it may be possible to provide for most eventualities from a number of well-sited CMHCs within a district , a full community mental health service should offer a choice of convenient ways to get specialist help in addition to CMHCs , for example through the local GP health centre or surgery , at a local outpatient clinic or at home .
16 If the West is not careful to attend to such concerns , it could foster the fury that has not come .
17 But it is easier to cope with these pressures if we go back to first principles .
18 The transformation to a ‘ post-industrial ’ society has further to go in some parts of the UK than others .
19 Even Mary Vetsera has only one wish , to be possessed by him , and is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve that end .
20 And she was prepared to go to any lengths to get what she wanted — and almost always succeeded .
21 To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths , no matter how underhand or devious they might be .
22 The parents do not particularly choose the kind of games their children should play , they are left free to indulge in any games that appeal to them , providing , of course , that the game is not injurious to their health .
23 Therefore , it is inadvisable to extrapolate from those studies to disadvantaged populations .
24 Too old to struggle with such incongruities , many of his later designs , however neatly composed , lack the confident style of his work before 1850 .
25 If you are new to making pressed flower pictures it could be easier to work with some pastels and then experiment with brighter colours once you feel more confident about your design skills .
26 Jane Austen rather prides herself on writing on things with a fairly restricted area of interest , whereas George Eliot , on the other hand , I think is interested to write about all sorts of things .
27 Members were free to engage in any activities , whether using the name of the group or autonomously , and to adopt any tactic ( violent or otherwise ) as they saw fit .
28 Members of the group will come to expect one another to conform to these patterns if they wish to remain members of it .
29 Though it is now unfashionable to dwell on such matters , there is in sport an insistence upon physical supremacy and the partisanship of an elite , strength through enjoyment and the worship of the hero , the bond of uniform and nationalism , lying uneasily parallel to the appeal of those same traits in popular Fascism .
30 Moreover , the child is left free to listen to these songs when he likes .
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