Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [to-vb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How are you likely to react to all that mopping and sloshing down ? |
| 2 | Are you able to get to all your lectures |
| 3 | Miss were you able to come to any view as to whether the call was genuine , from what you heard ? |
| 4 | Yet it was abundantly clear that only when she was away from the influence of the house was she able to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 5 | ’ … but even were we able to come to some agreement with the authorities at Cullbridge Comprehensive , they would demand , would they not , a quid pro quo ? |
| 6 | Almost an entire generation of Titfords in Frome was increasingly destitute from the 1780s onwards ; in a town which had depended heavily upon the wool industry for its prosperity for so long , the innate conservatism of the local clothiers left them unable to respond to changing times and new technology . |
| 7 | I do n't always agree with him , but find him ready to listen to constructive argument . |
| 8 | Most of the many suggested grids bear little relation to each other , and their generalized nature makes them difficult to apply to practical Earth Mysteries . |
| 9 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 10 | Is it easier to say to this paralysed man , ‘ Your sins are forgiven ’ , or to say ‘ Stand up , take your bed and walk ? ’ 10 . |
| 11 | If you are going to buy a camcorder , it might seem to he sensible to keep to this format : all your cassettes would be interchangeable , and you would be able to play back your own recordings on your colour television via your existing VCR just as you would any other tape . |
| 12 | Women with babies have something in common and can strike up a conversation , and the old and the young find it easy to talk to one another when there is a baby in the picture . |
| 13 | Lawyers representing children and other parties may on occasion find it helpful to refer to these publications . |
| 14 | Lawyers may also find it helpful to refer to another Department of Health publication The Care of Children Principles and Practice in Regulations and Guidance ( HMSO ) . |
| 15 | At this stage of the argument , I find it helpful to turn to recent developments in Canada . |
| 16 | This is the case of the Scandinavian countries — I am thinking of Finland and Iceland in particular — though the prevailing liberal ideology in those parts makes it embarrassing to admit to this form of intolerance . |
| 17 | Conversely they may find it difficult to adapt to poor lighting conditions , and they may be nervous when coming indoors after being in brighter light outside . |
| 18 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 19 | The relatively small proportion ( 5% ) of such theses made it difficult to come to any statistically valid conclusions about the differences in use between Ph D and M Sc theses . |
| 20 | Regrettably for the Palace , Alan found it difficult to adjust to 2nd and then 3rd Division football , where his undoubted skills were given short shrift by our opponents and , although he always gave of his best , he was equally always a heavily marked man . |
| 21 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 22 | Nothing can substitute for the health advice your doctor or specialist clinic can provide before you go on a trip to some exotic and far-flung destination , but we thought it worthwhile to turn to one very frequent business traveller for some of his tips . |
| 23 | Leathart thought it expedient to cross-cut to all of the veins in the vicinity . |