Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Angel , ’ she said suddenly in a normal voice , ‘ am I too wicked for us to live together ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't see him being anything other than honest about your work — not unless he wants to leave himself wide open for you to sue him , ’ Rosemary stated firmly . |
| 3 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 4 | The Captain frowned and murmured something sufficiently incomprehensible for her to take it as a negative . |
| 5 | There must , of course , be something fairly obvious for them to feed on . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's something really special for me to look forward to , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Other people have to do something pretty dramatic for us to notice . |
| 8 | He 's lookin' at something too big for him to understand . |
| 9 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 10 | Anthony , predictably enough Julia thought , decided that his patients needed him too much for him to take any kind of holiday over the Easter weekend , but he made no objection to David 's formal request to take Julia away to stay with his mother . |
| 11 | So , I gather , has Salman Rushdie , whose lack of freedom of movement might , one would have thought , have made it somewhat difficult for him to carry out such a duty . |
| 12 | Why was it so impossible for him to make their relationship more secure ? |
| 13 | ‘ There must be something we 're missing , ’ Benny said , ‘ or else why would the Doctor think it so necessary for us to stop the ceremony tonight ? ’ |
| 14 | What made it so easy for you to make your mind up ? ’ |
| 15 | Why is it so important for them to say such things ? |
| 16 | Why is it so hard for you to believe me ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Is it so wrong for him to take a pep pill ? |
| 18 | The family was intensely upset , knowing that Dawn was potentially capable of physical independence , even though her spasticity made it so difficult for her to move normally . |
| 19 | ‘ Why is it so difficult for everyone to believe me ? ’ she demanded through clenched teeth . |
| 20 | All of these factors weaken the ties that such businesses have with the communities in which they are located and make it less difficult for them to close down and/or relocate if and when business conditions deteriorate in one country relative to other countries . |
| 21 | I regret to note that the removal of the stop at 120 Nicolson Street makes it less convenient for you to shop at Low 's supermarket . |
| 22 | Such were the times , and what was more I was a man with a foreign passport and working in an embassy , and that made it much harder for me to collect . |
| 23 | ‘ That vision makes it much harder for her to accept . ’ |
| 24 | It is considered that something in the region of 40g daily should be quite sufficient to protect your health in all the ways which have been described , and to make it much easier for you to control your weight in the future . |
| 25 | You can turn day into night and night into day-this would make it much easier for you to study their feeding habits . |
| 26 | ‘ I think you will agree that that will make it extremely easy for me to keep a constant eye on you ? ’ |
| 27 | Many of the developments in taxonomy in the recent past have involved the use of computers , but staff in RBG have been limited by the inadequate facilities previously available , which have made it extremely difficult for them to become involved in work in this field . |
| 28 | ‘ Is it totally impossible for her to have slipped home during the critical time ? ’ |
| 29 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 30 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |