Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can not they too be committed to the view that philosophy must deal with matters of fact , and that to claim something as a matter of fact one must be able to state what observations would in principle establish its truth or falsity ? |
| 2 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 3 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 4 | However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task . |
| 5 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 6 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 7 | It will be interesting to know something of the history too . |
| 8 | And you 'll find it 's so much easier to try everything in the comfort of your own home . |
| 9 | I 'm afraid to put one in the kitchen |
| 10 | Oh well it 's always protection of the family and yet they 're not prepared to put anything to the family . |
| 11 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 12 | So it 's wrong to read anything into the failure of Peter Mandelson to be given a room — although the fact that he is dossing down in Tony Blair 's office is surely evidence of his continuing influence with the Bright Young Things of the shadow cabinet . |
| 13 | Anyway it would have been foolish to force someone into a life so demanding . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've always said I 'm prepared to pay something for a pass and other people are , too . |
| 15 | In some cultures , scribes do not record texts with word-for-word fidelity , while in others one is not free to alter anything in the process of re-recording . |
| 16 | To gain the most benefit from installing a desk top publishing system you must be prepared to learn something about the general area of printing . |
| 17 | This , ICL claims , ‘ allows you to keep all choices a la carte ’ , but it also provides the user with support — each user is free to take anything from the range he requires , and although they can have a personalised user interface , the products are integrated and conform to uniform design . |
| 18 | Americans are scrupulously careful to say nothing on the record about enlargement of the Community : that , they say , is a matter for the Europeans . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps he 'd be willing to take someone without a dowry . |
| 20 | It 's much easier to say something along the lines of , oh he was only a pathetic old flasher , or something like that . |
| 21 | They 've so inculcated this passion for absolute secrecy into the senior officers of all four services that no one is prepared to reveal anything without the permission of the commanding officer of the Air Force base or ship or whatever . |
| 22 | However , it is difficult to think without obsession , and it is impossible to create something without a foundation that is rigorous , incontrovertible and in fact , to some degree repetitive . |
| 23 | Each of these secondary attacks should be treated as having WS 25 and S 3 ; it is impossible to destroy everything in the room which is capable of delivering these attacks , and the only way to stop them is to destroy the clock . |
| 24 | Even in normal society it is boring and , after a while , meaningless to trace everything to a common source , especially when the detail is elaborate . |
| 25 | It is not easy to imagine anything in the behaviour of natural flowers for which evolution could conceivably have needed to program bees to anticipate regular changes in distance . |
| 26 | The scenes of destitution which the journalists could not be prevented from glimpsing-it is impossible to put someone in a hermetic bubble all the time , even for ten days — had not apparently impaired their appetites . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm ordered to give you these things , ’ Harvey said , as though he did n't want to really , but I do n't think he meant that — he was just over-keen to do everything by the book . |
| 28 | Last night , when the Canadians , Americans and Australians were just arriving , it was still impossible to learn anything about the knockout format on Saturday . |
| 29 | Energy was directed mainly to the primary sector , where , until recently , it was impossible to have anything but a church-sponsored school if it was to be funded by the state . |
| 30 | Having decided on the capacity of the venue and the ticket price , it is simple to multiply one by the other to ‘ gross the hall ’ . |