Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] in [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This left open the possibility of further Kindertransporte from countries threatened by Germany , but in the first months of the war no one was willing to engage in such defeatist speculation . |
| 2 | A considerable number of wives were willing to participate in this substitution role and ATB staff should keep this alternative in mind . |
| 3 | Why are people less prepared to vote in local government elections than they are in general elections ? |
| 4 | One would expect this to occur in natural acquisition situations , such that adults ' and children 's interaction with others can be compared . |
| 5 | and did ‘ not consider it possible to state in any grater detail what form this link should take ’ ( see Annex I to the Commission 's reply in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) . |
| 6 | Wolfgang spent a great deal of time in the company of J C Bach , with whom he struck up a friendship , and who was delighted to engage in amicable improvisation contests on the keyboard . |
| 7 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |
| 8 | He is at pains to assure us that he will do so We are privileged to share in these Machiavellian plans ( the word ‘ reach ’ has such connotations : ‘ overreach ’ is when the Machiavel attempts too much ) , and we see them fulfilled in the brilliant wooing scene that follows . |
| 9 | As a result employers came to reappraise their previous strategy of attempting to contain unions by means of active opposition since that was more likely to result in increased government intervention to facilitate recognition . |
| 10 | Its construction would be likely to result in excessive noise emissions , vibrations and generation of dust to the detriment of amenity , and the winning and working of minerals in this location would be contrary to the Buckinghamshire replacement minerals local plan . |
| 11 | The use of such equipment for on-site data collection is likely to result in considerable efficiency savings , by eliminating unnecessary duplication of effort in writing out temporary records and re-keyboarding data . |
| 12 | Despite the relative dereliction of some parts of Kent , the image of the garden of England remains a powerful influence and is likely to figure in many planning battles to come . |
| 13 | This would seem to be more likely to occur in longer input utterances . |
| 14 | In the original sweat spot test the foot was chosen because , impairment being more likely to occur in longer nerve fibres , the lower extremities would be the first to be involved in diabetic autonomic neuropathy . |
| 15 | Consequently he was not able to invest in improved mining techniques in the later years of his life . |
| 16 | The floating exchange rate regime has thus become less managed from about 1980 than was the practice in its early days , with the US authorities in particular more reluctant to engage in foreign currency transactions . |
| 17 | Feedback is crucial , otherwise staff feel uninvolved and unable to participate in improving service standards . |
| 18 | Financial products manufactured in Spain are unlikely to sell in suburban New Jersey . |
| 19 | We want them to be light and compact , yet robust , stable and reliable ; simple to operate , yet capable of reasonably fine heat control ; economical with fuel , yet able to bring pans to the boil quickly ; and despite all these conflicting demands , they must be safe to use in difficult field conditions . |
| 20 | Ace have also joined those able to manufacture in 3 ply polyethylene , the chemicals used being claimed to be safer for workers than those used by other companies although long term properties such as UV stability have still to be checked . |
| 21 | If the European Commission now bases new law on this recommendation , solicitors will be able to practise in other EC countries without having to be integrated into the local legal profession . |
| 22 | SPURRED on by the prospect of imminent defence cuts , the US Army has drawn up plans for cutting its forces in Europe by half , and recasting the army of the future into a rapid-deployment force , able to intervene in Third World trouble spots , in terrorist situations and to fight the war on drugs . |
| 23 | Breakaway artistic circles , even when isolated , proved fundamental to change in early 20th-century Austria and Germany . |
| 24 | Companies under the control of a jointly owned company ( JOC ) will be able to join in approved share schemes run by either of the JOC 's parent companies under a newly revised extra-statutory concession ( p 98 ) . |
| 25 | Companies under the control of a jointly owned company ( JOC ) will be able to join in approved share schemes run by either of the JOC 's parent companies under the newly revised extra-statutory concession . |
| 26 | It does not allow for the pupil who is able to achieve in this example level 6 . |
| 27 | I am sure our editors will be pleased to include in future issues comments passed on either by word of mouth or in letters . |
| 28 | PROTEON FIRST TO CRACK IN CROWDED ROUTER MARKET ; 15% CUT |
| 29 | Will he authorise the Medical Research Council to plan on the basis that the funding needed by Dr. John Sulston of the laboratory of molecular biology of Cambridge will be available to keep in this country work on the nematode project , as that work is the foundation of the human genome project which is the foundation of the future of medical research and biotechnology ? |
| 30 | Good venues were difficult to find in many west coast and island situations . |