Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Yet , it was asked , was it possible to exclude him by treaty , so manifestly an arrangement between the king of England and the Burgundians ( the dauphin 's political rivals ) , and then imposed upon a sick king who was in no position to resist ? |
| 3 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 4 | Whereas a strategy of incorporation can be relatively successful when applied by a regime of right-wing orientation which is prepared to support it with repression , it has proved to be ineffective for leftist groups which claim to be advancing the interests of the working class . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Edward VI had n't reached sixteen years of age before he died , in July 1553 , and for just nine days Lady Jane Grey was considered to be Queen Jane , but the country was not prepared to accept her as Queen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If they are to deter wasteful and unnecessary spending , it seems foolish to impose them for sight tests and dental check-ups ( preventive care usually saves money in the end ) but not for old people 's prescriptions . |
| 9 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 10 | The true citizen must be ‘ able to understand the interests of the community , must be able to subordinate his own will to the general will , must feel his responsibility to the community and be prepared to serve it by voting , working , or ( if need be ) fighting ’ . |
| 11 | There would be a few drinks , some canapes and a few staff who were free and willing to do it on overtime . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You need to control the carrot and the stick , and only use them when you are prepared to put them into action . |
| 14 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
| 15 | Before we go to the vote , Mr would you still want to organize your region or vote on separate or are they willing to amend it onto Labour 's resolution . |
| 16 | Assuming that Professor Vessey is willing to allow us to film , the arrangements will be as follows . |
| 17 | Shifting her into a more comfortable position , he continued , ‘ I was half prepared to dislike you on sight , you know . |
| 18 | He articulates a view which is widely shared on the Opposition Benches , although the Labour party finds it seemly to repress it at present . |
| 19 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 20 | Abortion usually provides the last chance for a woman to opt not to have a child ( unless she is prepared to offer it for adoption ) either for social reasons or because the fetus is in some way malformed . |
| 21 | In practically every case the publishers were prepared to supply me with information which was not generally made public . |
| 22 | The old records at the Royal Greenwich Observatory contained a consistent error , and Eddy had been wrong to take them at face value . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She expressed her condolences briefly and tactfully , in marked contrast to some of those present , who could n't quite bring themselves to approach the grieving widow but were quite prepared to quiz me at length about the details of Dennis 's last hours . |
| 25 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 26 | The borrower passes the newly created deposit to the seller of the goods who is willing to take it in payment . |
| 27 | Throughout this , the Independent/Private sector has continued , with few governments willing to bring it into line or abolish it . |
| 28 | It may be accepted that Althusser is describing science by its theoretical practice , its ‘ labour of theoretical transformation ’ , but this is not adequate to distinguish it from ideology as a practice . |
| 29 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |
| 30 | 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 . |