Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * a significant proportion of the market may comprise consumers who require non-standard products simply because they are not able or willing to conform to standardised purchasing patterns . |
| 2 | How many women would be able or willing to care for distant relatives by marriage ? |
| 3 | But equally , in explaining observed differences in features of industrial relations , it may be more productive or apposite to go beyond industrial relations variables to consider explanatory ‘ factors in the social , political and economic environment ’ ( Shalev 1980 : 29 ) . |
| 4 | The physical interference need not be sufficiently forceful or well-aimed to result in some form of damage or destruction to a proper part of the victim , though we suppose that a violent action would generally be painful to the recipient . |
| 5 | Geopetal sediments in stromatactoid cavities , for example , may be difficult or impossible to see on unetched , polished surfaces ( Fig. 4.2a ) , but are clearly seen after etching ( Fig. 4.2b ) , although other features are better revealed on the polished surface . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) Small-scale features , which are difficult or impossible to see in transmitted light microscopy , may be well-displayed with CL . |
| 7 | Osteonecrosis often begins insidiously and is difficult or impossible to diagnose with conventional radiography and computed tomography in the early stages . |
| 8 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 9 | How is a teacher or course-organiser to decide between one version and the other or , indeed , between these two versions and any other that a linguist might draw up ? |
| 10 | So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain . |
| 11 | Such excellence sometimes has the effect of creating an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude in parishes , where their parish musicians feel unable or unwilling to settle for more than a mediocre level of performance . |
| 12 | a valuable assessment tool for children who are unable or unwilling to co-operate with other testing procedures . |
| 13 | They were content to stay in the back-streets of our towns making their own coffins and providing a much needed service to a community which was either unqualified , unwilling or unable to extend to such outrageous luxuries . |
| 14 | PNP staff attending these courses complained of being told what to do but not how to do it , and of receiving dismissive or baffled responses to their anxieties about coping with colleagues who were reluctant or unable to accommodate to new ways of working . |
| 15 | We may feel that we are being neurotic if we have a bad self-image , vain if we have a good one , or trivial to care at all . |
| 16 | You have learned to look hard and analyse a complex situation , devise a detailed strategy for solving it , and then carefully carry it out over a period of time , revising your plan where necessary to cope with unforeseen difficulties . |
| 17 | ‘ Nanny would have a thing or two to say about that , would n't she ? |
| 18 | We 'll be going to the telephone lines in a moment or two to talk about these subjects , or anything else you wish to raise this Sunday morning . |
| 19 | For just £15 you can give them a set of springs that take just an hour or two to fit under each key and make the keyboard so much bouncier . |
| 20 | On Thursday and Friday volunteers at Morrison 's supermarket on North Road , Darlington , asked shoppers to buy an extra tin or two to send to hungry youngsters in Kostroma , County Durham 's twinned Russian city . |
| 21 | Volunteers at Morrison 's supermarket on North Road , Darlington , asked shoppers to buy an extra tin or two to send to hungry youngsters in Kostroma , County Durham 's twinned Russian district . |
| 22 | to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of the holders of ordinary shares where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of the ordinary shareholders are proportionate ( as nearly as may be ) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held or deemed to be held by them , subject only to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements , legal or practical problems arising in any overseas territory or by virtue of shares being represented by depositary receipts , the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange , or any other matter ; and |
| 23 | to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of all shareholders are proportionate [ as nearly as may be ] to their holdings of such shares subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the directors may consider necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements , statutory restrictions or legal or practical problems under or resulting from the application of the laws of any territory or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or stock exchange in any territory ; and |
| 24 | We 're confident that our current processes and procedures are more than adequate to deal with any concerns . ’ |
| 25 | I can tell him that Nottinghamshire county council 's balances are more than adequate to deal with those old people 's homes , without touching any other departmental budget . |
| 26 | Above all , the elections have provided a shot in the arm for the Christian right , proving , first , that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to listen to Baptist ministers and Pentecostalist preachers than the likes of Mayor Dinkins and Joseph Fernandez , and , second , that when it comes to gay sex , fundamentalists and Catholics are more than willing to co-operate with each other . |
| 27 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 28 | I shall be more than happy to comply with that undertaking . |
| 29 | The rest continued , although unable to win with less than all five team members . |
| 30 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |