Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became desperate and was willing to try anything in search for a solution to his problem . |
| 2 | ‘ Why , of course I 'd be willing to buy lots of mistletoe , ’ Anne 's father told them when Christine put the important question to him . |
| 3 | She had tried not to mind and was careful to shew nothing but pleasure . |
| 4 | You must be prepared to offer plenty of reassurance , therefore , at all stages in the process . |
| 5 | This week , Faldo has been not exactly refusing interviews but making it abruptly and abundantly clear that he is willing to say nothing of import . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The jury will be ‘ death qualified ’ ( in the case of Alabama capital law ) : all jurors have to believe in capital punishment , and be prepared to sentence someone to death . |
| 8 | It is also fairly easy to construct one from plastic waste piping as featured in my article PFK May 1991 . |
| 9 | Another delegate objected that all colonization was ‘ necessarily capitalistic and thus exploitative ’ , but a French delegate , Rouanet , reproached him : ‘ it is all too easy to blame everything on capitalism and to saddle it with all the crimes of colonization . |
| 10 | HAVING run for office promising to reinvent everything from health care to youth training , Bill Clinton is now devoting most of his time to reinventing his five-month-old presidency . |
| 11 | Before the days of household appliances like washing machines and vacuum cleaners , and before motorized transport , people were more likely to obtain plenty of exercise in normal day-to-day activity . |
| 12 | This means trying the schedule out , not on a sample of people for whom it is intended in its final version , but on people who may well be one 's colleagues at work ; that is , people who are likely to know something about survey work itself and schedule design . |
| 13 | Not all employers have equal access to occupational pensions , and manual workers are less likely to receive one on retirement or on the same level as non-manual and professional employees . |
| 14 | If one has the legal estate , one is empowered and privileged to do anything in relation to the land which the culture of the time , as represented and interpreted by the judiciary , accords to an " owner of land " . |
| 15 | Authority is the right to do something , ie in an organisation it is the right of a manager to require a subordinate to do something in order to achieve the goals of the organisation . |
| 16 | Market leaders Peugeot and Citroen are likely to hold plenty in stock . |
| 17 | She 'd be lucky to get anyone in fact . |
| 18 | They are likely to get plenty of ribbing at school and need to feel accepted and approved at home . |
| 19 | Woodcock was shocked at the extent of Minton 's self-loathing : convinced that he was physically unattractive , he looked to alcohol and wit as the agents most likely to get someone into bed . |
| 20 | Yet this much can be said : that in the research of these days , the evidence of some form of parochial structure is more likely to take one by surprise for its earliness than its lateness . |
| 21 | I 'm not likely to take anyone to court . ’ |
| 22 | She was supposed to speak nothing but French all day . |
| 23 | It 's more likely to throw everyone off course if it happens in a little room with a small audience . |
| 24 | The hair was blow-dried to give lots of body using Wella 's High Hair Volumising Mousse . |
| 25 | According to Norwegian law ( and German , for that matter ) , it 's not legal to put anything in beer — both local and licensed foreign brands — except water , yeast , hops and malt . |
| 26 | A security source said : ‘ The Army , in partnership with the police , aim , through their physical presence , to show the whole community that the security forces are present to protect everyone against terrorist attack , from whatever paramilitary organisation it may come . ’ |
| 27 | In its majority opinion the Court found that " the mere existence of a generalized political " motive to the coercion was inadequate to qualify someone for protection under the 1980 Act , and that the law required the persecution to be motivated by the opinions of the victim rather than by those of the persecutor . |
| 28 | A final tip — be sure to take plenty of cash in the three currencies you 'll need . |
| 29 | This is probably partly because it is always possible to land one on grass ( or any other hard surface ) with remarkably little damage , especially if the ground is wet . |
| 30 | Psychiatrists had been unable to find anything of significance to explain his actions . |