Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 2 | Despite the violence , the blood and the cloud of feathers , I was surprised to find it strangely thrilling to watch : it was like a miniature gladiator contest . |
| 3 | We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure . |
| 4 | People seem to find it relatively easy to understand the term/patent' , but have difficulty with ‘ copyright ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got part-time players and three or four are going to find it extremely difficult to get time off work . |
| 6 | The implications for us are that we shall have to find it very hard to ensure that we get a share of that grant to spend on implementation of the Food Safety Act . |
| 7 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 8 | As I 'm not the person to answer you very little to get , I 'm get into something quite a lot , you know ? |
| 9 | and just hold them up to light you quite welcome to do so . |
| 10 | In the capital the police told employers to work their men to the point of exhaustion the day before the terms were to be made known in order to leave them too weary to protest . |
| 11 | I reckon he 'll probably come good in time , but we ca n't afford to leave it too long to wait for both him and Deano to start coming up with the goods . |
| 12 | We had one roll-up an hour and you had to roll them so thin to make the tobacco last : jaw-achers they were . |
| 13 | A court is unlikely to regard it as reasonable to exclude liability in such cases . |
| 14 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |
| 15 | Information about the effects of painkilling drugs is particularly important for lipreading mothers , since drugs which make them drowsy are likely to make them less able to communicate . |
| 16 | Peter Hickton , unaware that cooperation could be bought by payment of ‘ negotiated extras ’ , responded to the crew 's apparent lethargy by throwing one of his tantrums , which had only served to make them less willing to help out . |
| 17 | The point of strengthening the UN forces would be to make them more likely to frustrate the aims of the besiegers ; more likely to frustrate means more likely to be shot at . |
| 18 | My treatment of intonation is based on the belief that foreign learners of English at advanced levels who may use this course should be given training to make them better able to recognise and copy English intonation ; the only really efficient way to learn to use the intonation of a language is the way a child acquires the intonation of its first language , and the training referred to above should help the adult learner of English to acquire English intonation in a similar ( though much slower ) way — through listening to and talking to English speakers . |
| 19 | ‘ Require a modification to the DC-10 cargo door locking system to make it physically impossible to position the external locking handle and vent door to their normal door locked positions unless the locking pins are fully engaged . |
| 20 | You will find three food charts in this book ( in addition to a calorie chart of drinks ) to make it triply easy to follow the new high-fibre low-calorie method of eating reduction and health benefit . |
| 21 | As a county we seem to have a need to make it as hard to succeed as we can . |
| 22 | Nevertheless to make it really easy to reach your daily dietary fibre target of 30g plus , it is an excellent idea to have one regular , constant daily meal breakfast is ideal because we tend not to vary our breakfasts — to supply about half the requirement . |
| 23 | Thereafter , someone had decided to make it well-nigh impossible to get to Ulm from Messkirch and had constructed an obstacle course of road-works , diversions , traffic jams and misplaced signposts which did my temper no good at all in the sweltering heat . |
| 24 | Causal attention to the way that a breeze moves the leaves on a tree would seem to make it quite unrealistic to think of having a theory that could predict their motion … |
| 25 | Moreover , system investments have created economies of scale where few existed before and have begun to make it more possible to derive benefit from global ‘ scope ’ . |
| 26 | It does does n't it ? er Well , the first thing to do , and as Carmen Hausclau says , there are far too many motor vehicles milling round the centre , is to make it more attractive to come into Oxford some other way . |
| 27 | Charles Darwin would cut a heavy book in halves to make it more convenient to handle , and fix broken sections together with strong metal clips . |
| 28 | ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’ |
| 29 | Voting rules could be changed to make it more difficult to obtain legislative approval for budgets , again reducing the power of ‘ high demand ’ groups by requiring larger than simple-majority decisions . |
| 30 | I ca n't get into the mind of some of the present batch of legislators , because they do n't seem to think thinks out logically , but what it 's actually done , or what it 's trying to do , is to make it very difficult to have an education system that is properly thought out , properly resourced and properly organized for the benefit of everybody and not just one or two people , and that 's one of the difficulties and that 's the difficulty that we any Local Authority is faced with . |