Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry it 's taken me so long to write to you . |
| 6 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 7 | The rope was attached to the tree , the crew set up on the bank , and we got ready to do three or four runs past the camera with Matt and me so busy arguing about baptising the Indians that we could n't see the danger behind us which the audience could see for themselves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dunleavy ( 1982 : 190–7 ) , using the example of the British civil nuclear industry , argues that the ‘ professional ’ ethos of public enterprise specialists may strengthen their links with their professional colleagues outside the state and hence make them less susceptible to control by state agencies . |
| 10 | On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period . |
| 11 | Political considerations may have made them less inclined to return to China , but it was generally not a major reason for leaving in the first place . |
| 12 | In LBOs , creditors are often also shareholders , making them less likely to jostle for advantage when times get tough . |
| 13 | The second type of explanation suggests that these people have some sort of defect that makes them less able to cope with environmental chemicals . |
| 14 | But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions . |
| 15 | The feeling of Bob-ness in the air here is enhanced by his apparently constant musing on Bob 's utterances . |
| 16 | I still occasional refer to these especially when I need a ‘ refresher ’ so well expressed by Veal in his unique manner . |
| 17 | 2 Am I temperamentally suitable to deal with them ? |
| 18 | They find them overly concerned to engage with ‘ management ’ in an adversarial relationship , in ways that seem harsh , legalistic and materialistic . |
| 19 | This makes them more varied to look at , and in general perhaps more picturesque , but it is not easy to make them intelligible to someone who has not seen them . |
| 20 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 21 | Erm which of these outfits are you most likely to wear on a trip to the , the local shops ? |
| 22 | This would make you less likely to behave like this in similar circumstances in the future . |
| 23 | Knowing you have a structured interview to progress through will make you less likely to fall into the trap of making an intuitive decision at the opening stages of the interview . |
| 24 | " Crist see well she shuld haue be dampned for synne " so he appeared to her in her sleep , wounded as in his Passion , and told her to put her hand into his side and even to feel his internal organs and heart , commenting that if he is thus open with her , why is she so ashamed to reveal to him the secrets of her heart ? |
| 25 | ‘ Why are you so keen to work on this program ? |
| 26 | She supposed that she wrongly still thought of pub meals in terms of bread and cheese or pasties . |
| 27 | Are you more creative working on your own ? |
| 28 | ‘ But in those days there was always someone in the house , and when were you ever content to sit with your feet on a footstool never moving a finger ? ’ |
| 29 | And throughout the evening , making you almost afraid to blink in case you miss anything , Ninagawa fills the stage with a constantly shifting sequence of such pictures — including a magnificent riverside landscape with clumps of reeds bleached by the light of an enormous moon . |
| 30 | Muss-juss-gair-nah-dring : I find you too boring to talk to . |