Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [conj] they [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to find that they have somewhat unusual morphological forms , which may suggest that they do indeed make some sort of special call on speakers ' capacity for linguistic construction . |
| 2 | Alternatively , rather than warranting the accuracy of opinions , the vendor may be prepared to warrant that they do not disagree with the opinion . |
| 3 | I am interested to note that they have not unscrewed the fingerplates from his doors . |
| 4 | Using logic it would be easy to fit but they do n't mention that you 've got to unplug the old keyboard or that the Spectrum 's PCB must go in the right way round . |
| 5 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |
| 6 | As for school libraries , the confusion caused by the complexity of educational change and the financial problems of local education authorities make it easy to believe that they have virtually ceased functioning . |
| 7 | These ‘ soft companies ’ are easy to start because they need little in the way of capital or staff , and they are less prone to failure than companies oriented toward ‘ hard ’ products . |
| 8 | This one has been sounded to a depth of a mere 1,000 feet , but peer into it is as far as I would ever want to go ; such crevices are no doubt thrilling to explore when they widen out into great chambers , but the thought of the narrow places I for one find exceedingly off-putting . |
| 9 | The transition from ward to home is usually difficult , and patients are likely to relapse if they do not receive adequate support and supervision . |
| 10 | At the same time , Toyota , Nissan and the others will find it hard to expand if they do not design their cars , and many of the parts contained in them , to meet local tastes and fashions . |
| 11 | However , if a people sacrifices all strangers to the sun , because it will burn out unless nourished by human blood , it would be unduly humble to think that they have as much right to their opinion as we have . |
| 12 | For , if pressed , many are likely to say that they feel more in common with others in the same discipline in other institutions — even on the other side of the world — than with academics in the same institution but in different subjects . |
| 13 | Most of the other metopes are fragmentary , and it is hard to say if they carry out this distinction , though the little that remains of the lion suggests that it went well with the other western ones . |
| 14 | There are many crimes which are hard to prove but they remain nonetheless crimes . |
| 15 | And , as I shall explain more fully in Chapter 2 , it is quite possible to ensure that they do not suffer in any way at all , whether mentally , physically or emotionally . |
| 16 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 17 | Then they become waterlogged and are unable to fly until they dry out . |
| 18 | Anyone familiar with five- and six-year-olds would be puzzled to learn that they do not ask questions when they do not understand something : if five-year-olds have a failing it is that they never stop asking questions ! |
| 19 | Why is Mrs O'Rea able to say that they do not need to hire labour to work on the farm ? |
| 20 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 21 | His methods of computation may be ridiculous , but he is right to think that they do not love him , and his sense of bitter ingratitude causes his madness . |
| 22 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 23 | Real gravitons make up what classical physicists would call gravitational waves , which are very weak-and so difficult to detect that they have never yet been observed . |
| 24 | No large predator threatens them from the land , except for that ubiquitous hunter , man , and many of their beaches are , in any case , difficult to reach for they lie below steep cliffs . |
| 25 | ‘ Young people in the Third World are being told it 's wonderful to smoke and they do n't know the problems it 's causing . ’ |
| 26 | However , it would be fair to say that they do not have a long-term answer to the question : ‘ What is the appropriate level of funding ? ’ , except that of adding on an amount , based on the estimated shortfall , to existing expenditure . |
| 27 | They are easy and inexpensive to make as they require only enough outer fabric to cover the actual window opening , or your desired size , plus a little extra lining when making up as Method 1 . |