Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients are often embarrassed or hesitant to describe in detail why they have difficulty evacuating their bowels or what the sensation is like before an incontinent episode . |
| 2 | The crown too stood to gain financially from fines paid by those tenants-in-chief who were unable or unwilling to serve in person . |
| 3 | In almost every year since 1945 the government has spent more than it has been willing or able to raise via taxation . |
| 4 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 5 | What happens if her father is unwilling or unable to stay at home with her ? |
| 6 | The provision of such a variety of telecommunication and travel facilities makes it impossible for any community however large or small to develop in isolation . |
| 7 | This is what the evidence suggests since , while the tempo of mergers and acquisitions ( both domestic and cross-border ) has been rising rapidly , it is also apparent that some industries have been engaged in divesting themselves of activities which are peripheral or difficult to manage in order to concentrate on areas of strength . |
| 8 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 9 | A vice is a bad habit or some kind of strange temperament in a horse or pony not normally expected which renders it — dangerous , or less useful or liable to decline in health . |
| 10 | My Gothic brackets required legs thicker than usual to correspond to stone pillars . |
| 11 | in real terms — which is more than adequate to allow for demography and renewed pressures on local authorities . |
| 12 | Unfortunately most agents are more than willing to bow to pressure from landlords and tenants who insist that confidentiality clauses are inserted into any deal , no matter how small . |
| 13 | He had been well aware that she would dearly love to have been one of his girlfriends , more than willing to go to bed with him had he given her any encouragement , and was resentful of his relationship with Liza . |
| 14 | People on higher incomes may use quite a wide range of credit sources , but are less likely than average to buy on mail order , much less likely to use HP , and very much more likely to use bank credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts . |
| 15 | Yet , even though moral rules and principles are neither innate , nor easy to acquire by reason , no one need remain ignorant of his duties and obligations : the Bible gives us them . |
| 16 | Besides , it is neither easy nor ethical to perch with notebook or video camera over spontaneous scenes of human mating or aggression . |
| 17 | Whatever system we are discussing , it is neither necessary nor helpful to subscribe to conspiracy theories of the behind-the-scenes influence exercised by civil servants . |
| 18 | ‘ It would be extremely arrogant and impractical to put in black and white , hundreds of miles from where these events are happening , what should be done in all cases , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It can enable the reluctant and shy to enter into discussion with greater enthusiasm at home or at work . |
| 20 | The other forwards were told to go fast , like ‘ flying columns ’ , round the slow , old-style defences and if possible to make for goal direct . |
| 21 | Fundamentals of economic relations between the USSR and the Union and Autonomous Republics , approved on April 26 and due to enter into force on Jan. 1 , 1991 , empowered union and autonomous republics among other things to own and utilize their land and natural resources ; to set their own budgets ; to levy taxes ; and to conduct their own foreign economic relations . |
| 22 | General principles of local self-government and local economy , approved on April 9 and due to enter into force progressively from July 1 , granted local soviets ( councils ) " broad powers to decide matters relating to social and economic development and environmental protection " , including full control of their own budgets . |
| 23 | The autonomy bill , approved by the French National Assembly on its first reading on Nov. 23-24 and due to enter into force in March 1992 , would give the island administration greater autonomy in the education , training , transport and tourism sectors but would still leave its regional economic development programme subject to French government approval . |
| 24 | A basic concern for wholeness ( a ) to be able and willing to reflect in depth about the totality of life 's experience and the views one comes across . |
| 25 | The mills of that day had no difficulty in absorbing illiterate , unskilled workers so long as they were able and willing to submit to discipline . ’ |
| 26 | During his fishing time though it was sheer delight for him , his boys were always ready and willing to go to sea , bother U-boats etc ! |
| 27 | Three highly specified systems make up the range the CUE2 with a resolution of 512 x 512 pixels provides an extremely sharp and easy to work with image . |
| 28 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 29 | Ideally , the marker trees would be of a species that was foreign to , or rare in , the area , and easy to distinguish by form and size at all seasons . |
| 30 | A simple matt black sweater , with just a few tiny red glass beads or minute sequins scattered over it , would look lovely in movement and gorgeous to wear on Christmas Day . |