Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yes , I suppose it does ; though it should be possible to observe the unfamiliar with cool detachment and still make perceptive drawings . |
| 2 | Glenn Hoddle and his men have been taking a break in Spain this week , so let ; s hope their ready and willing to kill the Posh off tomorrow . |
| 3 | The Church of Ireland was formed in 1560 to convert the Irish to Protestantism . |
| 4 | So skilful was the refacing that , at first glance , it was easy to mistake the romanticised for the original . |
| 5 | Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory . |
| 6 | In order to interpret this solution as a plane wave , it is appropriate to transform the metric to the Brinkmann form ( 9.18 ) by putting ( 9.19 ) |
| 7 | Some , such as Robert Owen , among socialists , and conservatives such as Thomas Carlyle , had argued from the beginning of industrial capitalism in Britain that the source of the unequal distribution of wealth , income and power lay in the competitive , individualistic nature of the new economic system and the values it perpetuated and strengthened : the emphasis upon individual rather than co-operative effort , upon self-help for all rather than upon mutual obligation , such as the responsibility of the rich to help the poor in return for their labour . |
| 8 | On rare occasions an experienced tiger will kill a wild buffalo or gaur , the Asian wild ox , weighing up to a ton ( 1 tonne ) , but it is far more likely to tackle the young of the larger and powerful species , including elephants and rhinos . |
| 9 | Certainly Pétain 's love for the French soldier in 1916 seems to have been entirely naive and genuine , remarkably free ( whatever may have been written more recently ) of bogus popularity seeking ; in any case , soldiers the world over are phenomenally quick to distinguish the genuine from the phony . |
| 10 | There are currently a number of changes at work that are likely to prevent the poor from acquiring capital assets . |
| 11 | These protrusions are hard as steel ( T 7 , D 8 ) , and striking at them means that any miss is 75% likely to strike the unfortunate in the throne . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm much too hard to want a woolly for myself , ’ he said , ‘ but I would n't say no to an overcoat or two ! ’ |
| 13 | In this case only south-west , west and northwest winds would be onshore , so that it would be better to derive a resultant of onshore winds from section ABCD of Fig. 8.24A . |
| 14 | I did manage to find the address of the company through an advert , but after writing to them I have had no reply and so I am unable to recharge the 2-lb of resin that I have used . |
| 15 | But , there again , just when you thought it was safe to write the Irish off … |
| 16 | Poor people , unable to privatise the holy in this way , crowded to shrines where they were welcomed by the custodians of miracle-working relics . |
| 17 | This was against all that was implicit in the way I had been taught — people increased in wisdom as they grew older , so that they were able to guide the young in the paths they should follow . |
| 18 | When Bismarck unified Germany he succeeded in doing so with the agreement of the other European powers , partly because of his own effective diplomacy and partly because he was able to reassure the British in particular that Germany 's future path would be constitutional and parliamentary . |
| 19 | Would n't be able to reject the null of no serial correlation , right , until we reach fifteen percent significance level . |
| 20 | If reforms in the career structure and nursing education go ahead as planned , then you may be able to add the following to your list : |
| 21 | With the speedier decision-making that the extra staff make possible , in which the Bill assists , people will be able to have no said to them very properly . |
| 22 | But not all behaviour can be explicable in this fashion , because if it were , we should be unable to distinguish the neurotic from the normal . |
| 23 | One other element however was essential to provide the dynamic for righteous action by evangelicals ; certainty of God 's government was combined with conviction of free human will and agency . |
| 24 | There are several erudite and comprehensive books available to guide the unwary through the maze that has been constructed over the centuries to form our current property law and which seems to be continually evolving . |
| 25 | He is now wholly caught up in his own sufferings , in a new dichotomy , an agonizing split within himself : Although he rejects conscience as ‘ but a word that cowards use , /Devised at first to keep the strong in awe ’ ( 309f. ) , the duality between truth and lies proves too great for Richard to sustain . |
| 26 | While the courts should not be slow to protect the unwary from possible error , the transsexual is usually well able to understand what is involved in surgery , and is usually operated on only after careful screening . |
| 27 | But in this cases it is necessary to assume the opposite in order to explain the results — to assume that what is learned during pre-exposure interferes less after 21 days than after one day . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it went on to argue that a higher age of consent was necessary to protect the young from ‘ attentions and pressures of an undesirable kind ’ . |
| 29 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 30 | With colonialism it 's easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys , which makes it tempting to substitute the colonized for the lost working class . |