Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is still a great lack of clarity and we are not prepared to pretend that we know the answer , thereby running the risk of causing at least as much damage as we do good . |
| 2 | ‘ That is n't really relevant , I suppose , though it would be interesting to know whether you inherited the trait . ’ |
| 3 | Maximilian saw nothing and said , ‘ It would be interesting to observe whether one got the same effect by slowing up the , say , motion of a shoe on a banana skin . ’ |
| 4 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 5 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 6 | The employment White Paper was published under a coalition dominated by Conservatives and Labour , but it was not the result of discussion within each party , and although leading politicians on both sides endorsed its policy it would be wrong to say that it reflected the considered view of either party . |
| 7 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 8 | He led her to it and was delighted to find that she accepted the lair at once . |
| 9 | There is no limit to the wants we can express in language and hence we may well set up problems that are impossible to solve because they require the resolution of contradictions . |
| 10 | That 's easy to believe when you see the joy on these children 's faces as they meet Disney characters for the first time . |
| 11 | It would have been more honest to say that I thought the litterbug needed a lesson . |
| 12 | It 's impossible to say if I knew the attackers . |
| 13 | It is an accusation that 's impossible to repudiate if one discounts the obese-a-weight Buster Douglas , from whom he lifted the crown with minimum effort and maximum compliance two years ago . |
| 14 | Is it easy to tell when you get the suggestion form what it 's relating to ? |
| 15 | It is all too easy to feel that we know the answer to the problems presented and so precipitously give advice . |
| 16 | It was hard to see and he touched the stones as he walked along by the wall . |
| 17 | The less skilled are more likely to assume that they understand the other person 's point of view and that the other person has the same basic information . |
| 18 | Still , glad to hear that it pulled the President through . ’ |
| 19 | I 've done that on trains , I 've done that on a tour bus quite recently , and of course the response you get can be very , very aggressive and that 's sometimes quite hard to handle but I take the precaution of always checking before I go somewhere that I 'm going to , I 'm going to be backed up , for example , erm before I go I purchase my holiday , I actually checked with the tour company that they did n't allow smoking on the buses |
| 20 | ‘ What are we supposed to do when we reach the Cesena road ? ’ she went on . |
| 21 | Since no one knew what they were likely to encounter once they entered the Alan country . |
| 22 | It is remarkable to recall that they topped the table at the start of November . |
| 23 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 24 | ‘ Are n't you supposed to say that you watered the horse ? ’ said her father . |
| 25 | ‘ A very good point ’ , he said ‘ and I am glad to say that we have the whole matter under constant study . ’ |
| 26 | He is right to insist that he rejects the material world of philosophers , such as Descartes and Malebranche , a world that is only indirectly perceived r=itvia our ideas . |
| 27 | Surely it is reasonable to suppose that they have the same feeling as I have when they do so . ’ |
| 28 | It is important to see that you obtain the necessary experience . |
| 29 | He was just cursing the child lock which his sweating , trembling hands were unable to work when he noticed the girl jockey walking towards his car . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm happy to help if it means the right thing is done by poor Harriet . |