Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some language learners also find it easier to hear e.g. a word initial sound at a predictable point in a frame . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Data Logic is also prepared to put together a guide for integrating Tuxedo with CICS/6000-effectively Transarc Corp 's Encina if it can find backers . |
| 3 | We are prepared to offer either a time based fee or a fixed fee . |
| 4 | Saxton , a doyen of British headhunting , is Chairman of the Executive Recruitment Association , formed in 1985 to link together a variety of search firms ; as yet , it would appear that few of the largest are interested , but this body could form a foundation for a professional association of headhunting in Britain . |
| 5 | The evident ascendancy of conservatives , who succeeded in getting one of their number elected as leader of the new party , appeared to bode ill for President Mikhail Gorbachev , the CPSU general secretary , at the crucial 28th CPSU congress , due to open only a fortnight later . |
| 6 | Without the information contained in the parish register , one might reasonably suppose that Joseph and Ann had three children , who were each to receive only a shilling unless Ann remarried , upon which occasion they would inherit the entire estate . |
| 7 | Admittedly , our present team of four would manage this programme only with reinforcement from some daily workers ; my staff plan therefore took in the services of a gardener , to visit once a week , twice in the summer , and two cleaners , each to visit twice a week . |
| 8 | However the different structure of the international legal system makes it dangerous to accept automatically a development in municipal law into international law . |
| 9 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 10 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 11 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 12 | People are not merely dupes , but are more likely to accept uncritically a line which is constantly propagated by the media if it does n't touch them personally ; otherwise they are more likely to insist on making up their own minds . |
| 13 | Being tied to reception though you see , J Julie 's likely to do quite a lot because she 's got to stay there so you 've got |
| 14 | Yes , well that 's their er stipulations and that 's what they 're supposed to do once a year ! |
| 15 | President Bush was admirably fast in identifying the problem inherited from the laissez faire Administration of his predecessor , and was quick to put together a $164billion rescue package — by far the largest in the history of finance . |
| 16 | It would be smooth sailing , if one could determine the course of one 's actions only by one general principle whose application at a given moment was too obvious to need even a moment 's reflection . |
| 17 | It is probably as well to pause here a moment , in order to take a few social bearings against which to judge these accusations . |
| 18 | You may find it more pleasing and effective to range together a selection of complementary shapes , rather than just a hotchpotch of squares , circles , ovals and rectangles . |
| 19 | To the dismay of record-collectors , it now became possible to piece together a collection of imperfect bits to make a complete note-perfect performance . |
| 20 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 21 | Until then she had managed to keep the tears from falling , but now they overflowed , and , unable to sit there a moment longer , she jumped up , stifling her sobs in her hand as she rushed from the room . |
| 22 | Support staff , numerically increased in some areas , but threatened with further reductions in others , are able to reach only a minority of the estimated number of children in need of special attention . |
| 23 | ‘ — but if Ross had n't twisted Owen 's arm and made him take the money we would n't have been able to afford even a shoe-box . |
| 24 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 25 | Now I 'm a governor of two schools and from this perspective in particular , I 'm very pleased to see that as a result of the legacy of previous Conservative administration and the generous S S A proposals for this year , that the Conservative group have been able to put forward a budget which enables schools budgets to be increased fully for demography and inflation and certainly I know that was a great worry this year in many of our schools that that might not be possible so it 's good to see that it is possible . |
| 26 | Republicans say Mr Bush 's win on capital gains suggests that the White House might be able to put together a majority of its own for budget restraint , with or without the Democratic leaders . |
| 27 | These seemed to be excellent local background material and I was able to use quite a number of facts from the pamphlets , giving the appropriate reference in each case . |
| 28 | You should be able to do quite a bit of useful contemplation about whether you actually love this boyfriend of yours . ’ |
| 29 | who turned out to be able to read quite a lot . |
| 30 | Bob has even been able to sketch outdoors a couple of times . |