Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] they [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | For justification , and the very baptism which is its outward symbol , means dying with Christ and rising again ; dying to the old sinful ways , and being prepared to see them as characteristics of the unregenerate nature that was dealt with on the cross by Jesus and must be kept there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Initially what we should all do is go back and look at those draft guidelines for the registration of nursing homes and be prepared to pull them to pieces , not so much for what they are saying but for what they are not saying and ought to be saying in order to be relevant . |
| 5 | Could he be afraid to put them into words ? |
| 6 | You need to control the carrot and the stick , and only use them when you are prepared to put them into action . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It would certainly not seem sensible to teach these skills in a context which did not allow children to put them to use immediately , nor would it seem sensible to teach them through sets of exercises independent of any meaningful content area . |
| 9 | if Tracey can get them it might be more reliable to get them from Tracey . |
| 10 | The old records at the Royal Greenwich Observatory contained a consistent error , and Eddy had been wrong to take them at face value . |
| 11 | Keep receipts for things you buy abroad and be prepared to show them to customs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the Americans do not seem likely to force the Japanese to overcharge them for chips again . |
| 14 | But although ‘ In Place of Strife ’ was in accord with majority public opinion , it was certainly not in accord with Labour Party and union opinion , and although that in itself has not always blocked the parliamentary leadership , this time it became obvious that sufficient Labour MPs would reject the proposals to make it impossible to establish them as law . |
| 15 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 16 | Teachers and schools , however well resourced and staffed , can only do so much to counter the effects of social disadvantage , and it is too easy to use them as scapegoats for the failure of political and economic policy . |
| 17 | And while the injunctions are subject to unwitting acceptance , it is impossible to call them into question . |
| 18 | Thus , although it would in principle be possible to use the producer price indices for measuring the rate of inflation , it is more appropriate to regard them as indicators of the likely future trend of inflation . |
| 19 | It is impossible to place them in context so they are virtually worthless . |
| 20 | The fact that the area is an expanding and highly mobile community with a high percentage of nominal church-goers means that it is relatively easy to bring them into church services . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | GLOOMY Patrick Quinn is serving up Christmas dinners — because he thinks people will be too hard-up to buy them in December . |
| 23 | Parents need time to understand how their problems affect their children and that it is possible to help them with management issues if they work together and support each other . |
| 24 | Thus it remains for discussion whether it would not be preferable to criminalize them by means of special ‘ endangerment ’ offences . |
| 25 | It is unusual to consider them in conjunction with the ostensibly different milieux and traditions of broadcasting . |
| 26 | Incidentally , vitamins were applied percutaneously to treat severely vitamin-deficient ex-prisoners too ill to take them by mouth after the Second World War . |
| 27 | TELEVISION 'S merciless eye does footballers few favours and perhaps it is unfair to take them to task too readily for their occasional excesses . |
| 28 | It would of course be possible to give them to clarinets and bassoons ( let us hope that no one would wish to use an oboe for the top note of the chords — it would be terribly nasal and obtrusive here , on its bottom notes ) , but the low-placed clarinets would sound rather hollow and ‘ woody ’ for the rich effect we have in mind . |
| 29 | However , subject to agreement by the voluntary providing bodies , it would seem logical to include them in NAB 's general appraisal of all courses of advanced further education which it is undertaking both to secure a degree of rationalization and also some reduction in unit costs . |
| 30 | At the beginning of book in , when describing the revolt of Lesbos in 427 , Thucydides says that the Lesbians ‘ had been wanting to revolt even before the war , but the Spartans had been unwilling to receive them into alliance ’ . |