Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria . |
| 2 | Although it is clearly not possible to restore it as a conduit care , the same external effect will be provided by the use of re-chargeable batteries with a replica truck and control gear . |
| 3 | But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play . |
| 4 | Is it possible to wear it with a belt ? |
| 5 | Although an attempt was made to be representative in the choice of these films it is clear that if the effects observed are of any practical significance it should be possible to observe them on a more varied stimulus set . |
| 6 | According to ICL , notebooks have two distinct uses : first , they are a user 's only or main machine — so , it must be possible to plug them into a local network , and they must have the functionality of a standard personal computer . |
| 7 | Associative and cognitive theories present two major examples of different approaches to the study of learning , and although they differ in very many respects it is possible to synthesise them in a way that offers guidance for teachers . |
| 8 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 9 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 10 | Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport . |
| 11 | From long experience Blanche knew it was pointless to confront most interviewees , foolish to drive them into a corner . |
| 12 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 13 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 14 | It may be easier to implement it in a raster environment , but much would depend on the size of the rasters chosen to represent the areas . |
| 15 | And anyway , if somebody is too forthright and says what he really thinks you might feel impelled to hit him with a brick . |
| 16 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 17 | Yet chemists are working on just such a project and one group in Japan has managed to selectively filter copper , using light to drive it through a filtering membrane . |
| 18 | The story of Gilly Hopkins is very sad : Gilly has the opportunity to gain everything she 's always wanted — someone who cares about her and forgives her and is willing to provide her with a loving home , but Gilly throws all this away simply by writing a letter when she 's feeling very upset . |
| 19 | Bob Calder , that ass , was more than willing to accept him as a man who knew all there was to know about women . |
| 20 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 21 | 1001 Ways to Save the Planet deserves to experience the irony of being consumed in vast quantities — and it 's interesting that Penguin has been willing to launch it towards a mass readership sheathed in a determinedly dowdy recycled cover . |
| 22 | Okay does anybody object to those minutes or are we willing to pass them as a pretty accurate account |
| 23 | ‘ Would n't it be easier to install her in a flat ? ’ |
| 24 | And , although I agree with the author that the Shaw-Mohler equation is characterised by ‘ its utter simplicity ’ , it seems a little brutal to derive it in a page of text by introducing 11 variables , when the equation itself can be reduced to three . |
| 25 | How ever , there is no doubt in my mind that it would be quite wrong to confine her in a geriatric home among seriously deranged patients . |
| 26 | I do n't really understand what he 's doing , but it 's OK to watch him for a bit . |
| 27 | With mild sciatica , it 's sensible to regard it as a warning and be very careful about how you bend and lift . |
| 28 | Of course , our quiz is intended to be light-hearted , so if you disagree with the conclusions , feel free to take them with a pinch of salt . |
| 29 | The discount system has the potential to run us into a substantial amount of trouble and I believe that very few people will be prepared to defend it in a year or two . |
| 30 | If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ? |