Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Postcards are labour-intensive , difficult to maintain and staff may find them intensely irritating to serve to customers , but to be able to generate over 20% of total sales from less than 10% of floor space , gives a turnover per square foot that most of us can only dream of . |
| 2 | This makes them incredibly difficult to see , let alone capture on film . |
| 3 | ‘ They may be large — around 40 feet long — but like icebergs 90 per cent is under the water and that is making them incredibly difficult to see among the waves . ’ |
| 4 | It makes me incredibly angry to think what a brainless , totally impossible , ‘ perfect ’ image of womanhood the media present , and that so many of us , me included , are intelligent but ca n't seem to separate ourselves from wanting those ideals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This poses the danger of weeds crossbreeding with genetically engineered crops , which will allow them to inherit traits that will make them better able to survive drought , frost or pests . |
| 7 | The need on the part of performance scoring models for ready access to detailed transaction and account balance trend data required for such a marketing strategy are already stored on the database , even if off-line , and in a form that makes them sufficiently easy to retrieve . |
| 8 | P.C. Well , Sir , I have always endeavoured to keep my beat clean , and I have seen people committing perhaps but technical offences , but I have not thought them sufficiently serious to caution them . |
| 9 | ( b ) The equal balancing of the two melodic lines in this case , and , at the same time , making them sufficiently powerful to come through the orchestral tutti , presents little difficulty if the simple principles of doubling are well understood and applied . |
| 10 | He clearly saw that the extended nature of Rommel 's supply lines made them extremely vulnerable to attack and that destruction of port facilities would severely limit his ability to wage war . |
| 11 | The ‘ characters ’ ( the only real selling point ) make them extremely awkward to use , and the licences have taken a hefty toll on the price — a wallet-busting £12.99 ! |
| 12 | Their speed and agility make them extremely hard to kill . |
| 13 | But what usually happens is that unacceptable ( as opposed to lethal ) levels of toxins stress the fish , leaving them abnormally vulnerable to attack by opportunistic organisms . |
| 14 | What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ? |
| 15 | This is one reason why its taken me so long to find out about this mailing list . |
| 16 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 17 | ‘ It 's taken me so long to get ‘ Gunnell ’ up there on the giant Olympic scoreboard , I think I 'm going to carry on being called that for athletics purposes . ’ |
| 18 | Apologising for not being in Northern Ireland since his first concert three years ago , he added : ‘ I 'm sorry it took me so long to get back . |
| 19 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry it 's taken me so long to write to you . |
| 21 | ‘ It made me so angry to see her stepchildren cast as innocents while she was made out to be a dragon . ’ |
| 22 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |
| 23 | 3 ) If Washburn has discovered the centre of the universe within our own solar system , how come it has taken them so long to tell anybody about it ? |
| 24 | The Free Curl cordless styling Brush , Free Curl cordless styling Tong and Free Curl cordless combination Brush and Tong have been designed specifically for women on the move which makes them so easy to travel with . |
| 25 | It is that tender , chiding , mutual affection which makes these beautifully translated letters between them so agreeable to read . |
| 26 | We had one roll-up an hour and you had to roll them so thin to make the tobacco last : jaw-achers they were . |
| 27 | And you can even buy imitations of handmade bricks with all the individuality of texture that makes them so attractive to use , but they are pricy . |
| 28 | This left them highly vulnerable to harvest failures such as those of 1891 and 1901 . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) those whose circumstances make them highly likely to experience an event to which they are particularly vulnerable ; |
| 30 | Cognitive theories ' defensiveness about such ambiguity makes them especially liable to stress their scientific , and particularly their biological , significance . |