Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commonest problem with central heating pumps is jamming , either after a period when the pump has not been used , or due to sludge in the system clogging the impeller . |
| 2 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 3 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 4 | Money raised will be used to enable women who are low-waged or unemployed to go on the Delegation ( which is in March ) . |
| 5 | By allowing experiments to be performed on a computer which would be impractical or dangerous to perform in the physical world , it also allows the design engineer to probe new areas . |
| 6 | This information is significant for the teacher as blackboard and wall-mounted work may be difficult or impossible to discriminate for a pupil with poor visual acuity . |
| 7 | It may be difficult or impossible to establish at the date of the sale the value of the pension rights to be transferred . |
| 8 | Drawings can often give views of the site that are difficult or impossible to achieve with a physical reconstruction , such as aerial or cutaway views , showing both the interior and exterior of a building at the same time . |
| 9 | We no longer allow the weak or foolish or unfortunate to perish in the gutters of a city slum . |
| 10 | The Paris court must consider whether it is entitled or competent to act on a decision taken in a foreign country such a long time ago . |
| 11 | Speaking in April 1987 , Yakovlev attacked ‘ dogmatic thinking ’ and located its social origins in that section of the society that had ‘ no interest in development , who are personally satisfied with the customary and convenient status quo , who are unable or unwilling to respond to the challenges of the times and to new phenomena in life ’ . |
| 12 | The CDP 's fear is that the local authorities will be so hard pressed , because of government policy , that they will be unable or unwilling to help in the future . |
| 13 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |
| 14 | It is the West 's firmest commitment so far to helping clean up environmental damage in the East but also its clearest statement yet that it is not willing or able to pay for the process . |
| 15 | No service-provider was hard to contact or reluctant to talk about a client . |
| 16 | Also , perhaps , that sometimes at night , she finds her crying for the starving of Africa or unable to sleep with the terror of the possibility of nuclear war or desperately seeking a denial of the reality of the horror of the Holocaust . |
| 17 | Now , in 1980 , having largely escaped the first round of cuts by the Tory government , the Housing Corporation , which is a major source of funding to housing associations and co-ops , has been cut too , leading to an ever worsening situation for those ineligible for council housing or unable to buy into the private market . |
| 18 | The reason is largely that younger researchers are unwilling or unable to embark on a career in this kind of research . |
| 19 | In fact , Chesterman had put the charge of perfectionism in person in his CBC interview , where Karajan had suggested that the word was one used by those too idle or impatient to attend to the basic disciplines of their craft . |
| 20 | As the outside and upper are also designed with weight rather than durability in mind , unless you are exceptionally light on your feet you would have to be either foolish or wealthy to train in a pair of racers . |
| 21 | Some nonsense or other to do with the nanny state . |
| 22 | The idealised FAOR solutions , although impractical to implement at the time , nonetheless provided a goal that could be pursued via a strategy that would recognise the speed of technological developments , the availability of finance , and other priorities of the two departments . |
| 23 | However , if you have no replacements , be sure to use more club than usual to allow for the decreased distance . |
| 24 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |
| 25 | I know that the organisations that help the homeless would be more than willing to co-operate with the Minister to help to identify the many places throughout the country where posters would be of greatest benefit to the homeless . |
| 26 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 27 | Leeds were more than willing to enter into a ground sharing scheme when they were skint and needed the rent money . |
| 28 | ‘ It is neither wise nor manly to get into a pissing contest with a skunk , ’ Ellen said coldly , ‘ so step back , Nick . ’ |
| 29 | Unskilled manual workers were also considerably less likely than average to know of a wide selection of credit sources ; sources which came higher up their list than average were moneylenders , mail order , tallymen , loans from finance companies , electricity or gas board schemes , and HP . |
| 30 | Still buzzing from the morning , I was more than delighted to sunbathe in the sand and pine-needles . |