Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You stick a Frownie on the parts of the face you are most likely to screw up in pain — the forehead , the outer end of the cheekbones — so that when your face starts to contract , you will realise it is happening , and relax your features into a seraphic , line-free mask . |
| 2 | But the Greeks , though they enjoy buying the products of other people 's factories , are stubbornly reluctant to go in for factories themselves . |
| 3 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 4 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 5 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 6 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 7 | The sentences are less likely to run out of puff in mid-stream and trail off into inaudibility . |
| 8 | They are so keen to get on with it that they can be guaranteed to see the rabbit before any human and are fast off the mark . |
| 9 | They are scarcely free to shop around for the officer who would give them the easiest time . |
| 10 | You 're less likely to end up with gaps and assumptions . ’ |
| 11 | And , of course , we 're always ready to step out of he background and be with you on site . |
| 12 | We 'll have a look at decimals because you need to need to know what you 're doing with decimals but decimals are fractions and until you I mean I think you 're very happy with fractions now you 're probably ready to go on to decimals . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're quite willing to cover up for him . |
| 14 | The sort of larger items the police have property marking kits that they 're quite willing to lend out to people , or alternatively , you can hire them out on your library card , and you can dye stamp those or engrave them . |
| 15 | ‘ If you do not know where you are then you 're quite likely to wander on to something you can not cope with . ’ |
| 16 | intended to stay , because the immediate reaction to something like that happening is n't necessarily erm , all bad , I mean people are quite glad that they are still alive and they 're quite prepared to put up with the possible fallout of the consequences of that so that they can stay in their own homes . |
| 17 | All of the top clubs have been faltering and we 're quite happy to creep up on them . |
| 18 | A council spokesman said : ‘ All employees are issued with identity cards which they are always happy to hand over for close inspection . |
| 19 | I am usually able to come up with an idea |
| 20 | The rest of the poem is concerned with the social causes of human misery : the Female Vagrant tells us that This is dismissed by many critics as ‘ tainted with Godwinism ’ , but I can not myself see that lines like these are ever likely to become out of date . |
| 21 | This on-line printer library can magic up a driver for any printer you are ever likely to meet in under a couple of minutes . |
| 22 | By day , however , they are more likely to move in on someone else 's kill and carry off parts that other jaws can not crack ( below ) . |
| 23 | Most aphids can grow up either as a wingless stationary form or a winged migratory form ; they are more likely to grow up with wings if the local population density is high . |
| 24 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 25 | Species with good jumping ability are more able to get out of pits than are species that can not jump ( Rackham , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | I hope I am still alive to go back to Palestine again . |
| 27 | However , in abstract thinking it has always been our habit to assume the role of Ego perfectly isolated from spontaneity ; and even when in theory we have learned to distinguish the play-acting from real life , we are still liable to slip back into thinking as though the agent applying ‘ Be aware ’ were indeed an Ego unaffected by inclination veering with awareness . |
| 28 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 29 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 30 | 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago . |