Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is yours powerful enough to spend the rest of your life in a rage , looking at your watch ? |
| 2 | Observers did not deem them serious enough to put the election results into question , and the UDF , which had described the elections as dishonest and unfair on June 14 , issued a statement on June 22 supporting the Central Electoral Commission . |
| 3 | Those of you old enough to remember the No 1 Chart Hit of 1968 ‘ Israelites ’ will need no introduction to Desmond Dekker . |
| 4 | Some people find it does them good psychologically to use an expensive preparation but it is possible to keep the skin soft and free from unpleasant dryness without spending a fortune . |
| 5 | But it does n't seem to be worthwhile to chuck out all the bits of paper we 've got and replace them all just to get the colour right . |
| 6 | All you have to do is draw all the little bits of an object and push them all together to make a silhouette of the object and then performing one combine operation joins them all together to make an outline that would take you a lot longer to draw in one piece . |
| 7 | All you have to do is draw all the little bits of an object and push them all together to make a silhouette of the object and then performing one combine operation joins them all together to make an outline that would take you a lot longer to draw in one piece . |
| 8 | He would of course estimate the supply prices of all these different factors of production of the cloth with reference to the amounts of each of them that would be wanted , and on the supposition that the conditions of supply would be normal ; and he would add them all together to find the supply price of the cloth . |
| 9 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 10 | Cumulative selection , once it has begun , seems to me powerful enough to make the evolution of intelligence probable , if not inevitable . |
| 11 | Had not God made them small enough to do the job ? |
| 12 | Is it possible just to have a glass water ? |
| 13 | Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls . |
| 14 | The pier has friends — what pier does n't these days — but is it strong enough to withstand the seemingly inexorable demographic tides sweeping through the town ? |
| 15 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 16 | Is it appropriate sometimes to finish the drama session with a game or an exercise which calms and focuses ? |
| 17 | While unable to sympathise with Hewlett 's aesthetic sufferings , I find it impossible not to admire the iron nerve with which he chronicles them . |
| 18 | Their work made it impossible henceforth to invoke the work of Althusser in Britain without reference to the problems which they had articulated . |
| 19 | The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . " |
| 20 | Even the most committed opponents of capital punishment will find it hard not to see the Norwegians ' point of view . |
| 21 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 22 | Was n't it fine just to cruise the freeway , in the afternoon sunshine , a foxy lady in the seat beside you … |
| 23 | John Cooksley is a former teacher who gave it all up to become a fulltime Wildlife artist . |
| 24 | The broadcaster who threw it all up to become the son of God was giving thanks on the eve of the party conference in Wolverhampton . |
| 25 | You were a top-grade sister , yet you threw it all away to take a non-challenging temporary post here for half a year . |
| 26 | I thought it prudent not to involve the intelligence arms of the four services . |
| 27 | The instances and their relations are subject to a degree of variation which would make it anachronistic even to posit a universal phenomenon called ‘ the state ’ . |
| 28 | Jim reached into her mouth and prised it open enough to pull the tongue forward . |
| 29 | The extent of this digestion makes it difficult even to identify the prey animals , and the teeth are so fragile that any disturbance of these specimens during transport or burial would be likely to destroy them completely . |
| 30 | These considerations make it difficult either to design a trial , or to interpret the findings . ’ |