Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 2 | Is it possible to arrange a different time for the accounts to be returned ? |
| 3 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 4 | It should be possible to agree a fixed rate repayment for a couple of years , and many companies offer special rates for first time buyers . |
| 5 | But , in my experience , if this is the case although it is possible to plant a new church it will not happen nearly as quickly as it will do if someone can make themselves available full-time . |
| 6 | If it is not considered appropriate or possible to lodge an early Tender , then once the necessary information or Medical Report is available , the Tender should be lodged as soon as possible thereafter . |
| 7 | It is very pleasant to see a full hall on an inclement evening . |
| 8 | It will now seem strange to see a silent Locomotive Shed ( Bldg A22 ) wit hits doors closed for the last time . |
| 9 | Their behaviour conforms to fairly well-known principles and it should therefore be possible to estimate a perpetual inventory model which will show , for example , increased saving if the real value of their assets falls as deficiencies are made up . |
| 10 | It can be possible to acclimatize a specialised feeder to substitute foods although there is always a danger of a reluctance to feed deteriorating into anorexia and premature demise . |
| 11 | So he was right to drive a hard bargain . |
| 12 | We need to attract as many people as possible to enjoy a good day of movement at the Training Taster Days at Bedford College on 28 April — on 9 June and on 16 June . |
| 13 | ‘ Ideology is one thing , but it is possible to enjoy a visual impression without thinking of history . |
| 14 | Using this technique , it is possible to perform a safe autorotation from a very low level . |
| 15 | As mentioned above , it was not possible to perform a detailed study of the Ca 2 + sensitivity of K + channels in excised inside out patches . |
| 16 | Just on one of the points er made by Professor Lock erm who was arguing that it it basically was n't possible to include an agricultural land quality criterion er in the exceptions policy because there was so much good land in North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | It would be possible to include an exploratory phase , before the first students arrive . |
| 18 | It can take as much as six months for all required figures to be available and it is usual to issue a provisional index six to seven weeks after the end of the month in question and revise this later . |
| 19 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 20 | For this reason it is usual to report an electronic absorption spectrum as a list of peak positions and extinction coefficients , or as a list of the extinction coefficients at various wavelengths . |
| 21 | When John was so short-tempered , it hardly seemed possible to conduct a civilised conversation . |
| 22 | Although it is possible to sample a pure Côte aux Enfants red wine made by Bollinger and matured in small oak casks , the production is tiny and availability correspondingly restricted . |
| 23 | MacPherson himself could only manage a closing 75 and Cottrell 's Cheshire team mate Carl Nowicki finished with a 70 to claim a famous victory . |
| 24 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 25 | But at the end of the conference season , it is possible to see a political market-place reviving in Britain , albeit a market-place containing only two parties . |
| 26 | This valve is generally situated under a small metal cover — in towns , it is possible to see a whole row of these stretching down the pavement ; in rural areas , it may be more difficult to find . |
| 27 | Sociologists and doctors agree that to uproot an old person may cause severe trauma . |
| 28 | Within these changed professional development practices it is possible to observe a managerial shift towards a more sensitive response to the specific circumstances within which changes in schools were expected to take place . |
| 29 | There are no strict rules about the use of these colours or the way in which they are worn , so it is usual to find a great deal of variation in clothing styles between regiments from the same place . |
| 30 | Well , Paul believes the time is right to launch a new mag on the same lines . |