Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I hope however that he will be willing to go a few steps further . |
| 2 | I WAS interested to see the All Blacks trial teams that were announced last week . |
| 3 | But there are other less obvious savings which can be taken into account if you are prepared to write a few letters and fill out a form or two . |
| 4 | It might be easier to use a few objects with clearly differentiated attributes as a starting point , but conversations of this kind can occur spontaneously in many activities . |
| 5 | Besides , the actor thinks movies should n't be afraid to push a few buttons . |
| 6 | But Tatum is not afraid to take a few knocks . |
| 7 | Sunderland travel to Cambridge , with Crosby saying : ‘ I want the players to go out and not be afraid to take a few risks . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We call ourselves the Unifiers — an inner core of trade unionists who are prepared to take a few risks to get what we must for the majority . |
| 9 | If none of these ideas is possible , would she be willing to spend a few weeks each year in a home for the elderly or , if she is infirm , in a nursing home or a local National Health Service hospital ? |
| 10 | of it er but I 'd rather be viewed on my own merits on my own worth er be willing to take a few risks in life erm and know that I 've got the rewards at the end of it for making a success . |
| 11 | and it was interesting to note a few groups apparently in their infancy , not all of which were in the larger authorities : |
| 12 | You usually like to keep things at the status quo , but today you could be willing to make a few changes . |
| 13 | If you all get on well and are prepared to make the same sacrifices to succeed , you might just be ‘ the right stuff ’ . |
| 14 | Before focussing on the potential offers , I think it is perhaps appropriate to sound a few caveats . |
| 15 | Increasingly , under LMS , schools will have the freedom to choose a local firm or individual to provide the many services they need to run effectively . |
| 16 | The requested authority is required by Article 10 to apply the same measures of compulsion against an unwilling witness as it would do under its internal law in local proceedings . |
| 17 | She was heavily veiled and masked to walk the few yards to the women 's dining majlis , which was , of course , in the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 18 | Although in everyday professional speech the phrase the in-service training of teachers ( INSET ) is often used to denote formal courses operated collectively with groups of teachers , this view of INSET must be perceived as too limited to describe the many practices which are used in the professional development of teachers ( Gordon and Lawton 1978 , Becher and Maclure 1978 ) . |
| 19 | It is appropriate to add a few words at this point that might help avert the possibility of becoming involved in any extensive debate about whether associative changes of the sort described here should really be thought of as instances of perceptual learning , producing changes in the perceived similarity of the stimuli . |
| 20 | It is not easy to survey the many areas in which there has been not only response to Dei Verbum , but also developments traceable to its influence , yet going far beyond what most of the Council 's members could have foreseen . |
| 21 | At this point , it might be appropriate to spend a few moments on a specifically Scottish aspect of the Bill . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most fundamental was the great variation in the size and resources of units all supposed to perform the same tasks at roughly the same standards . |
| 23 | Erm , which has certainly been noticeable , is likely to cause a few problems , because in August are off , and so on . |
| 24 | Overworked officials in finance ministries rarely reject a whole list of potential projects ; they are much more likely to identify a few priorities at random , and pass on the donor to the line ministry , hoping for the best if and when the project is financed . |
| 25 | This three-star establishment is a sister hotel to the nearby Tyrol & Alpenhof hotels , and guests at the Haus Orplid are welcome to use the many facilities at these hotels . |
| 26 | But after the sterling crisis , Mr Major had been quick to brand the same markets as irrational , Mr Smith declared . |
| 27 | It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ . |
| 28 | For instance , the note describing the Central Pillar of Freney is likely to tickle a few egos : ‘ ED+ , rock to VI and A3 , mixed — at the end of the world and , given bad luck , delivered up to all the hells of weather . ’ |
| 29 | The order for forty-one aircraft was confirmed on 7 Jan 77 , and will in effect establish a new version of the Falcon 20 plus a new Garrett AiResearch turbofan likely to have a few applications in the executive transport and smaller airline field . |
| 30 | In bottle-wrack , on the other hand , all the cells within a plant are likely to have the same genes , because only very recent mutations could divide them . |