Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Ideally , the boots should have a stiffened , cleated sole to cope with uneven ground , and good quality leather uppers to repel moisture and hold the foot firmly . |
2 | Gill-net entanglement affects coastal dolphin and porpoise species worldwide , and these animals ' low reproductive rates make them ill-suited to cope with this type of threat . |
3 | Clearly , business interests would be against any general proscription and particularly against strict liability , since then it ‘ would not be possible to know with any degree of certainty whether a proposed course of action was legal ’ ( Hopkins 1980b : 427 ) and that would deprive corporate executives of an essential precondition for entering or staying in the market , namely predictability . |
4 | The transaction had taken place in the great Cistercian abbey of Fossanova which , due to its important position , Innocent was always very careful to treat with much favour . |
5 | Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level . |
6 | He was prepared to talk with complete honesty about it . |
7 | Rejecting Morgan Grampian 's appeal earlier , Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , said he ‘ most emphatically ’ refused to grant a stay on the contempt proceedings because Mr Goodwin was not prepared to comply with any order to disclose his notes . |
8 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
9 | They 've got ta be willing to part with that bit of money . |
10 | Deputies would be free to deal with day-to-day management on an institutional level , and with long-term management in areas such as staffing and staff review , budget and resource control , and community liaison and provision . |
11 | Secondly , be prepared to experiment with other typeface libraries so long as the format they produce has compatible printer and screen fonts . |
12 | Above all , the elections have provided a shot in the arm for the Christian right , proving , first , that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to listen to Baptist ministers and Pentecostalist preachers than the likes of Mayor Dinkins and Joseph Fernandez , and , second , that when it comes to gay sex , fundamentalists and Catholics are more than willing to co-operate with each other . |
13 | If they are prepared to move with apparent ease into surroundings of this nature , will they equally find no problems by moving into the Wembley Arenas of this world ? |
14 | It believes that it should be free to unite with other district councils , as it sees fit , to provide wider services , rather than have them imposed by Whitehall and central Government . |
15 | Disintermediation may still occur as customers turn to institutions such as finance houses which , by specializing in longer-term loans , are prepared to operate with less liquidity . |
16 | Although conceptually clear , the method is not easy to implement with current hardware . |
17 | Osteonecrosis often begins insidiously and is difficult or impossible to diagnose with conventional radiography and computed tomography in the early stages . |
18 | Their main preoccupation is providing winter keep for their breeding stock from steep , wet , acid soils , which are expensive and dangerous to work with modern machinery . |
19 | It is probably impossible to recapture with any approach to accuracy or completeness the atmosphere of a past age but , happily , in the 1930s a former member of the Edenderry congregation left an account of what it was like to grow up in that distant time . |
20 | But though an enormous amount of material about such families has been accumulated over the past century , neither the social anthropologists nor the compilers of genealogical handbooks ( an aristocratic occupation ) have taken sufficient interest in them to make it easy to generalise with any confidence about such family groups . |
21 | In particular , human performance within systems is impossible to predict with any precision and details of this performance as it occurs in practice or on simulators is the only basis for prediction on matters such as safety and system reliability either for the current system or for future systems . |
22 | This is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty . |
23 | The problem is that this line is impossible to draw with any certainty or accuracy , because the definition of kind or type is inevitably comprised of descriptions within the statute of the situation which the tribunal has to determine . |
24 | Quite simply , when monkeys had been infected with one strain of yellow fever virus , they became transiently less easy to infect with another strain . |
25 | It is very easy to use with on-screen help and it uses a large type font , you can also change screen colours . |
26 | It is easy to see why the Author was the winner of an award for ‘ U.K. Best Shareware Author ’ with programs that are so easy to use with on-line help that a manual is not needed . |
27 | A meat burger in a bun is easy to manage with one hand . |
28 | Now it is n't easy to deal with this sort of situation . |
29 | If the tile is damaged , you can either buy a replacement ( not always easy to match with traditional clay tiles , though architectural salvage yards are a good place to try ) . |
30 | There are also beds of limestone close on the line at Snead and Lydham suitable for building stone , although not sufficiently pure to compete with Porthywaen lime for agricultural purposes . |