Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously some misshapen warped creation like Alex ; shame flushed heat all through her that she had been willing to give herself to some disgusting pervert . |
| 2 | Unlike Meadow 's syndrome mothers , these women did not seem to relish their child 's hospital stay , nor were they willing to subject them to any investigation , however painful and unpleasant . |
| 3 | And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job . |
| 4 | the second one was that er if you found er my service helpful , to be of benefit to you , you 'd feel free to recommend me to some of your friends and colleagues . |
| 5 | It was not easy to relate them to any obvious scheme . |
| 6 | But if it has that civil capability it is all too easy to turn it to less than peaceful purposes . |
| 7 | When you consider that we have a mortgage book of roughly £50 billion , you can see that it would be impossible to offer it to all our borrowers . |
| 8 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 9 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 10 | I 'm so sorry to put you to all this trouble . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 12 | To illustrate this point , I have given an example of a pattern for a knitted rectangle here in all three types of pattern notation , so that you will be able to relate them to each other . |
| 13 | Oh , God , but he must really love her to be able to lower himself to this . |
| 14 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 15 | ‘ There was someone outside the kitchen window when I arrived , ’ said Finn placidly , apparently pleased to be able to contribute something to this limited discussion . |
| 16 | She was n't used to expressing such volatility in front of anyone , and it confounded her how a total stranger , and a man she disliked into the bargain , was able to stir her to such an extent . |
| 17 | That missing report has been put round the table this morning and I hope that members of the committee would have found it and would be able to add it to that |
| 18 | Fortunately , her relatives were able to move her to another home which was cheaper : that is an increasingly common practice . |
| 19 | If I was n't able to admit it to some old woman I 'd never see again and who did n't matter a scrap to me , how was I going to face it out for the rest of my life ? |
| 20 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 21 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 22 | It is a real test of golf and it is difficult to compare it to any other course I have played . ’ |
| 23 | And I do n't understand why she was so slow to alert us to those symptoms today . ’ |
| 24 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 25 | As a New York merchant expressed it in 1762 : " Our importation of dry goods from England is so vastly great , that we are obliged to betake ourselves to all possible arts to make remittances to the British merchants . " |
| 26 | And the political culture is one that provides government with the breathing space necessary to address itself to those problems . |
| 27 | Neither was he ready to admit it to this assured young gipsy who stood before him . |