Example sentences of "[adj] of [v-ing] [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the hoped-for recasting of the ‘ community charge ’ , nothing short of transferring education to central government — which is simply not going to happen before the next election — can reduce it to a politically painless level . |
| 2 | The first part of Heisenberg 's concluding sentence shows that he felt that such a view fell short of attributing reality to elementary particles . |
| 3 | And if I were to put it , If you have an opportunity of two sites and the development of one is capable of causing damage to existing characteristics and the other is not , would you go for the the one which would not cause damage rather than the one which would , or would you willy-nilly plump for either ? |
| 4 | This is analogous to the optical case of light from a source immersed in a liquid beamed at the surface and is thus capable of giving rise to similar critical " internal reflection " conditions . |
| 5 | Conspiracy as a crime was developed by the Star Chamber during the seventeenth century and , when taken over by the common law courts , came to be regarded by them as not only a crime but also as capable of giving rise to civil liability provided damage resulted to the plaintiff . |