Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many in the industry felt it was worth while taking risks on the peak space heating load , by keeping prices sufficiently low to attract in addition such off-peak evening or spring and autumn space heating loads , as well as the cooking and water heating sales . |
| 2 | Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely . |
| 3 | It 's so easy to do in rehearsal and yet , when that moment comes , something happens to your throat . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's usually a lot of tension on movie sets , but on these films it 's so easy to work in unison . |
| 5 | When the product or service being exchanged is complex ( as is the case with health care ) , it is either impossible or extremely costly to specify in advance in a written contract every contingency that might affect the transaction . |
| 6 | Reform ( or ‘ rehabilitation ’ ) is the idea that punishment can reduce the incidence of crime by taking a form which will improve the individual offender 's character or behaviour and make him or her less likely to re-offend in future . |
| 7 | Deutsche Aerospace 's size should make it better able to compete in European and international aerospace projects . |
| 8 | I agree with my hon. Friend that it is extremely important to bear in mind the key significance of the Chamber and the Smoking Room . |
| 9 | While the exact relationship between retirement and ill health was unclear , an association between the two was sufficiently apparent to result in apprehension being experienced by elderly workers and their families . |
| 10 | ‘ That is precisely what is so difficult to achieve in performance . |
| 11 | It may well be the case that the courts feel less inclined to intervene in relation to matters which are purely factual , but the juridical basis of intervention was never premised upon the need to distinguish between law and fact . |
| 12 | It is extremely difficult to say in advance whether or not any particular action or series of actions will be regarded as disorderly conduct . |
| 13 | However , as some women do n't realise that they are pregnant , experience no pain and simply assume that they are having period problems , the condition can be extremely difficult to detect in time . |
| 14 | In the United States the President is elected every four years and , according to the constitution since President Eisenhower , no president is constitutionally eligible to remain in office for more than two successive four-year terms . |
| 15 | But if you do n't want it preserved , I think it would be so nice to have in college , if only for next year 's students , and you also would be around for the next two years , I mean if you 're doing , if you 're doing a language erm , option next year , or even a language recitation erm , this would be quite nice material to use for that . |
| 16 | The Ring of Scotland for his part undertook to pay the Ring of England £20,000 over three years in three instalments , a concession which Mortimer and Isabella must have been especially anxious to procure in view of their financial difficulties , and which Bruce hoped perhaps would sweeten the agreement for the English . |
| 17 | If you 're older , it may be less dispiriting to get in touch with an agency that helps with your sort of job hunting . |
| 18 | On the plus side though , this is a simple-to-use device that is far less bulky , thus less liable to snag in wreckage , than many of its rivals . |
| 19 | This is obvious in theory but immensely hard to test in practice . |
| 20 | Questions will be asked , even if they are not asked publicly , about whether he is physically fit to continue in office . |
| 21 | Large lexicons are generally unable to reside in main-memory and the required information must be retrieved from disk . |
| 22 | In practice , therefore , the size of the money multiplier will vary and is thus difficult to predict in advance . |
| 23 | But it has also illustrated that our future world is not just difficult to predict in practice ; it is also theoretically impossible . |
| 24 | Again , these problems are most likely to arise in puppyhood . |
| 25 | It 's when they 're most likely to fall in love , once and for ever . |
| 26 | Superfecundation is most likely to occur in town and city cats , where the individual territories have become so reduced in size that the odour of a sexually active female can easily be detected by a whole collection of different males . |
| 27 | Tail slightly forked , but fork not always easy to see in flight . |
| 28 | These two cases , although subjected to criticism , seem to strengthen copyright protection notwithstanding that the " look and feel " test is not always easy to apply in practice . |
| 29 | This simple distinction is not always easy to apply in practice because hardware equipment often incorporates software and the contractual position of " off-the-shelf " software is far from clear . |
| 30 | The distinction is not always easy to keep in mind : Lord Denning , Britain 's most experienced judge in defamation cases , published a book in which he criticised a jury in Bristol for acquitting defendants who had been charged with rioting . |