Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In this year , the 25th anniversary of Shelter , does the Minister agree that the time is right for him to give effect to the Prime Minister 's boast in his letter of support to Shelter that the Government would employ public expenditure where necessary ? |
2 | And so , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ since you do not love me , properly , not truly , not the way I love you , it would not be right for us to make love . ’ |
3 | ‘ Then — do you think it would be possible for me to take Azor for a walk ? ’ |
4 | ‘ It was n't possible for me to take time off work , ’ Ashley protested . |
5 | He thought I was too silly for words , but he made it possible for me to keep Perdita , so I 'll always be grateful . ’ |
6 | They succeeded , thus making it possible for me to make predictions which could afterwards be verified . |
7 | To help in this , we asked Paul Ingouf if it would be possible for him to obtain maps and plans of the Harbour , and to mark the spot where the aircraft crashed . |
8 | The chemical agent which they contain , making it possible for them to use water in the photosynthetic process , is chlorophyll , which is also possessed by true algae and the higher plants . |
9 | They may also be able to build in some safeguards which would make it possible for them to give permission . |
10 | Advertising made it possible for them to distribute news practically free of charge , with the profit coming from marketing . |
11 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
12 | This is a perfectly valid question to raise in a case study response , and you might go on to consider whether it is still possible for them to change direction , even now . |
13 | When their control is threatened it is possible for them to obtain relief by displacing a prominently misbehaving pupil . |
14 | Is it possible for us to provide facilities , skills and help from the Atomic Energy Authority to help them with that difficult problem ? |
15 | The problem was that it was theoretically possible for someone to introduce poison gas into a remote and perhaps unguarded part of the system and for the noxious fumes to be carried through to the General-Secretary 's apartments or office . |
16 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
17 | The comprehensive range of facilities that it provides makes it possible for you to create patterns for all of these popular garment shapes , to suit your own individual tensions and measurements . |
18 | You will find you have access to swims you once only dreamed about and it becomes possible for you to float fish in swims which can only be fished with leger tackle from the bank . |
19 | ‘ Think it possible for anyone to add poison to a dish intended for Sir Thomas , Mr Didier ? ’ |
20 | He says in his affirmation , with the support of letters from his doctor , that he and his wife suffer from heart conditions and other ailments which make it undesirable for them to occupy accommodation above the level of the ground floor . |
21 | But although the younger sons could not have Nambudiri wives it was quite normal and respectable for them to take women of the matrilineal castes ( e.g. Nayar ) as recognized consorts . |
22 | Save The Children Fund and children throughout the world have every reason to be grateful for her unstinting efforts . |
23 | ‘ Why should it be so strange for me to find work with IMP ? |
24 | The hero of Waugh 's Sword of Honour trilogy ( 1952–61 ) , again , is virtuously gauche ; so is Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim in 1954 , a comic hero usually as polite in aspiration as he is socially incompetent in practice ; and so , it must be imagined , was the young Betjeman who , as he revealed in ‘ A Subaltern 's Love-song in New Bats in Old Belfries ( 1945 ) , adored girls too strong for their fainting admirers , whether at love or tennis : |
25 | Loretta had stayed there before , although it was more usual for her to see Bridget when the latter made one of her frequent visits to London . |
26 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
27 | I ai n't never argued with you but once and that were when you said it'ud be wrong for us to keep Harry . |
28 | ‘ Would n't it be less risky for him to employ others to do his dirty work ? ’ |
29 | There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism . |
30 | You see , he would be afraid for him setting fire to the steading I suppose . |