Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proletariat are ‘ free ’ labourers in the sense that they can sell their labour to whoever will employ them , but are not free to do anything but sell their labour , since they have no access to the means of production : land , tools , workshops , raw materials . |
| 2 | Some Divisions and individual members criticised the NEC and what it did but were not prepared to do anything or offer constructive advice . |
| 3 | It showed you can achieve something at short notice , provided you 're prepared to drop everything and cover the cost . |
| 4 | Tom Huckin and Jim Hume have to be prepared to drop everything and run 24 hours a day . |
| 5 | The inexorable course of this colonial war meant that many people in France , especially within the army , were not prepared to entertain anything that entailed France giving up military sovereignty . |
| 6 | Motion pictures were free to show anything and to suggest anything . |
| 7 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 8 | All around me voices were saying , ‘ Good luck ’ , as I walked on to the stage , but I was much too nervous to do anything but nod , grimly . |
| 9 | Of the vast multitude of varieties that are available , old and new , and despite the astonishing achievements of the modern breeders and growers , not many varieties match up to all or even most of the desirable specifications , and it is difficult , nay , impossible to name one that does not have some fault somewhere . |
| 10 | ‘ Italian men treat women as if … as if they 're either creatures who are n't fit to do anything but cook , clean , and have babies — or expensive toys to play with . ’ |
| 11 | It was from those situations that he was likely to salvage something and draw Leonard into a fight . |
| 12 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 13 | They are either too lazy or too uninformed to do anything but fail to fulfil their potential . ’ |
| 14 | I got to my feet , not knowing whether to call out , to applaud , to be frightened , to laugh , too astounded to do anything but stand and stare . |
| 15 | It 's a busy , demanding life — a far cry from the days when Odette would sit at home , too tired to do anything except console herself with chocolates . |
| 16 | Or just too tired to do anything but enjoy looking at the pretty lady . |
| 17 | By the time I find a room it 's too late to do anything except go out on to the balcony and gaze down at the still-warm street , the signs . |
| 18 | Amsterdam museums are sure to have something that interests everyone . |
| 19 | Whatever formal characteristics Lyons might attribute to English in theory , in practice it would be difficult for him to sustain the claim that ‘ it is possible to address someone or talk about someone in English without indicating one 's relative social status or attitude ’ . |
| 20 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 21 | Only by trying out different colours and effects will you be able to find one that does the most for your looks . |
| 22 | You may never find a system that is perfect for your needs , but you should be able to find one that satisfies most of them . |
| 23 | Would she and Stephen be sitting just as they were now and be suddenly unable to remember anything that had happened because nothing would have been real ? |
| 24 | What haunted her was the way he had kissed her — and how she had been unable to do anything but respond ! |
| 25 | There are hitches and hassles aplenty to contend with now and what makes it worse is that you 're powerless to do anything except grumble and grouse . |
| 26 | When a heatwave occurs — unless we are fortunate enough to be able to do nothing but laze around — many people become increasingly bad-tempered . |
| 27 | Still , there 's nothing secretive or lacking in discussion on the new laws in operation — and how refreshing to mention something that does not invoke the subject of money . |
| 28 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 29 | If you must use a painting program then it is essential to use one that works at the resolution of the output device . |
| 30 | But one of the great problems with the new media is that , because the brain finds it difficult to do anything but process imagery and sound , it is n't left in a reflective state . |