Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
| 2 | Of the latter he wrote , ‘ Lucas van Leyden is an artist of frailer calibre than Dürer , and prone to lose himself in imitation of stronger men , each of his contemporaries in turn dominating his style . ’ |
| 3 | It was his passionate conviction that sarvodaya , which might be regarded as a practical expression of Truth , could only be effected by means of ahi sā , and the votary of ahi sā would be prepared to sacrifice himself in order to realize this ideal . |
| 4 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 5 | The first part of the provision may not therefore be wholly effective in any event and the question is whether the tenant is prepared to accept it in return for a concession from the landlord elsewhere in the lease . |
| 6 | He became desperate and was willing to try anything in search for a solution to his problem . |
| 7 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 8 | What is quite clear is that after the death of Lanfranc the English monks felt free to assert themselves in ways that would have been impossible while Lanfranc lived . |
| 9 | Tyndall chose , and it was brave to do it in Belfast , to mount an attack on organized religion in the name of science . |
| 10 | As in the past , this normally involved a process of barter : to obtain information the ambassador had to be able and willing to give it in return . |
| 11 | Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream . |
| 12 | It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals . |
| 13 | She could almost hear him making the effort to be cheerful , as if he was afraid to disappoint her in case she decided not to ring him again . |
| 14 | He did n't know how to stop her and when she did stop by herself , when they got to the junction and had to change trains , he was afraid to say anything in case she started again , and so he said nothing . |
| 15 | The borrower passes the newly created deposit to the seller of the goods who is willing to take it in payment . |
| 16 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 17 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 18 | The US government refused rebel demands for military assistance on the grounds that it would be wrong to involve itself in Iraq 's internal affairs . |
| 19 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 20 | During the ensuing three weeks the French Foreign Minister , M. Sauvagnargues , was due to visit me in London for talks , as was the Turkish Foreign Minister . |
| 21 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 22 | Now she is absolutely delighted to see me in Formula One . ’ |
| 23 | Our new landlady made it clear that she was delighted to accept us in preference to yet more evacuee children . |
| 24 | Would he be content to leave her in charge of Thomas and merely check on his progress from time to time , or might he endeavour to wield control in her — his — their son 's life ? |
| 25 | It is impossible to place them in context so they are virtually worthless . |
| 26 | I had promised thinking it would be easy to order everything in England and ship it out . |
| 27 | They could not understand why their exemplary son had left university with an excellent degree and was content to submerge himself in dole culture as he waited for his band to make it . |
| 28 | So not only is it unwise to try to group patients , in terms of syndromes , it is not even possible to group them in terms of symptoms — that is , even a set of patients all showing the same symptom may not be homogeneous even with respect to that symptom . |
| 29 | GLOOMY Patrick Quinn is serving up Christmas dinners — because he thinks people will be too hard-up to buy them in December . |
| 30 | Once Newton 's physics had been constituted , it was possible to apply it in detail to astronomy . |