Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the detergent companies have been careful to use lots of recycled plastic in their containers . |
| 2 | With every inducement to satisfy Anselm — and Anselm did not hesitate to urge his sufferings on behalf of the papacy as a reason for conceding the claims of Canterbury — Paschal II was careful to concede nothing of lasting importance . |
| 3 | The message here is : Do n't be afraid to examine lots of concrete examples . |
| 4 | ‘ All that stuff just kinda blends into blues , but it is real hard to compare someone like Blind Lemon Jefferson to Albert Collins . |
| 5 | When you 're observing real animals living real lives , it 's often very hard to know anything for certain . |
| 6 | You are not likely to find anything of archaeological interest , but museums may be inclined to keep a watchful eye on you ! |
| 7 | This trick seems likely to ensure plenty of immediate development work on applications and so plenty of products for NT when it arrives . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it was good to meet lots of different people but on the other hand , I have never really felt settled or had lifelong friends like most people , ’ he says . |
| 9 | By this time it is already too late to do anything about Mavic Chen , as the three are accidentally transported to the world of Mira by cellular projection . |
| 10 | If homo sapiens is unequivocally demarcated from the rest of the animal kingdom by the language barrier then it would seem reasonable to accord something like honorary status to those existing in its image , as it were , but otherwise enfeebled through age or retardation . |
| 11 | There his family , like all those in the village , had been too poor to eat anything but black bread , and so bagels , baked with expensive white flour , were the rarest of luxuries . |
| 12 | In the Hankses ' cottage , Tom rubbed the steam from the window and peered outside , able to see nothing but heavy snowflakes melting against the windows . |
| 13 | Should the weather be unkind , or fish reluctant to rise , then I am sure that I will be able to find plenty of other sea-borne activities to keep me fully occupied ; and , hopefully , merrily amused . |
| 14 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 15 | She said : ‘ I like to make people laugh and always wanted to be able to do something for elderly and lonely people . ’ |
| 16 | But we might be able to do something by internal reshuffling at the clinic . |
| 17 | However , if I was going to be able to maintain anything like good water quality , an essential requirement in any marine aquarium , my basic marine tank had to be a minimum size of 900 × 380 × 300mm ( 36″ × 15″ × 12″ ) with a capacity of 104 litres ( 23 gallons ) . |
| 18 | Right now , although the determinals in industrial specialization within countries , alright , now although you ca n't really define that , you might be able to say something about industrial specialization . |
| 19 | Drunk certainly , thank God — too drunk to suffer anything but minor guilt pangs , extremely muted and infrequent . |
| 20 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 21 | Yet the fragmentation of the Church makes it exceedingly difficult to implement anything like normal management practice . |
| 22 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |
| 23 | Vicki too is anxious to see something of other worlds , times and places , and she persuades the Doctor to take her with him to Imperial Rome . |
| 24 | I was too young to know anything of sexual images , but I used to imagine all the local ladies tied to trees . ’ |