Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a similar vein , victims or witnesses may sympathise with the offender , or be unwilling to inform on a member of their family or a friend . |
| 2 | It might not be to everyone 's taste or be able to last for hundreds of years but you have to admit that she would turn a few heads if she appeared sitting casually in your garden . |
| 3 | In exchange , homesteaders will pay a lower rent or be able to buy at a reduced price . |
| 4 | Though his downy feathers were beginning to strengthen , he felt weak and vulnerable , for he never seemed to get enough food , or be able to beat off the brutal and painful pecks of his sibling from whom , by some ancient lore of eagles , his parents did not protect him . |
| 5 | Whatever the problems with these rather global and unanalytic formulations , none the less they do encapsulate one indispensable and basic argument of feminism , the argument that women 's experience has been left out : one of the central themes of feminism has been the importance of women 's experience , and one of its central enterprises has been to show how a great deal of male theorising about women has tended to deny , invalidate , or be unable to account for this experience . |
| 6 | Their problems are manifold : besides the obvious troubles of handling and riding such horses , they may also be more difficult to breed or be prone to suffer from minor or even major illnesses . |
| 7 | No withdrawal of deposits may be made prior to maturity , save by closure of your TESSA , in which event Midland will transfer the funds to another interest bearing account and be obliged to deduct from your TESSA and to pay direct to the Inland Revenue , an amount equal to Basic Rate Income Tax prevailing at the date of closure on all interest accrued on your TESSA whether it has been withdrawn or not . |
| 8 | Let the clinic or your doctor know if you can not keep an appointment and be sure to arrange for another . |
| 9 | Let me find some nice little girl , with someone else 's drink swilling inside her nice flat little belly , who 'll talk and talk and talk , and be nice to look at . |
| 10 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 11 | However any such rule would be inelegant and be impossible to apply in practice because of the prohibitive amount of case checking required . |
| 12 | Thus the merger of Fiat/Lancia and Alfa would increase Fiat 's existing dominance of the Italian car market and be liable to lead to an increase in monopoly power . |
| 13 | The front bridle legs have to pass over the cross-spar and be free to run in a straight line from the leading edge to the ring . |
| 14 | Always save your file before you sort it and be careful to include in the Data Range all the rows and columns that you want to sort but no others . |
| 15 | Surgeons should know about the potential of this subject and be prepared to participate in projects that will improve the health of their patients . |
| 16 | With your own project , you really need a distinct avenue to go down and be prepared to stick to that no matter what . |
| 17 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |
| 18 | He should hold the down wind wing-tip a little above the horizontal and be prepared to run with it , not just balance it and let go . |
| 19 | So everyone is unhappy and , what is worse still , the children are being brought up to believe that the old should always be given second best and be prepared to shrink into the smallest ‘ shell ’ that is offered to them . |
| 20 | A basic self-awareness ( a ) to reflect constructively about religion without being overwhelmed by prejudice , whether religious or non-religious ; ( b ) to see and understand the kind of assumptions about religion present in their environment and in society as a whole , and be prepared to think about these and not automatically either reject them or take them over ; ( c ) to develop trust in their own powers of perceptiveness and intuition , provided that this trust is balanced by openness towards the insights of others and the findings of fresh evidence ; ( d ) consequent on this , to develop willingness to modify , change , enlarge , or revise , what has so far been thought and felt about religion . |
| 21 | Instead we need to reflect on them , ponder and wonder , find out all we can about them , learn to appreciate some of the time-honoured ways of approaching them such as meditation and prayer , and be prepared to think about these matters in all sorts of different situations and moods . |
| 22 | The main point is not to be caught out unexpectedly and be prepared to launch into a contingency routine as smoothly as possible . |
| 23 | Of course , sea-trout never give themselves up easily ; you have to know your loch and be prepared to hunt for where the fish lie ; so be prepared for a lot of rowing , and a lot of finger-crossing on Oscaig . |
| 24 | Gainers may specify shorter maximum waiting times for their patients and be prepared to pay for new and expensive developments , which patients from loser districts in the same hospital could be denied . |
| 25 | Hypermedia systems are very complex : events have to be controlled over long periods , as in the design , control , maintenance and integrity of linear and branching trails used for navigation ; text and graphical information comprises complex data objects with the need for aggregation and inheritance abstractions ; and interfaces must employ multi-windowing techniques and be natural according to psychological models . |
| 26 | will establish what children should normally be expected to know , understand and be able to do at around the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 and will enable each child to be measured against established national standards . |
| 27 | In turn , they would receive information from elsewhere in Scotland and be able to call upon the association 's greater muscle to aid their local fights . |
| 28 | Younger managers will grow in experience and be able to take on their responsibilities in time . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 30 | So , this is the situation you must practise and be able to cope with . |