Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinot Noir , Burgundy 's top red grape , is less willing to travel and has not been entirely amenable to efforts to tame it in Australia . |
| 2 | To achieve a similar end , one was opposed to recruits restricting their social networks to other members of the force . |
| 3 | In the special election to complete Heinz 's term , his platform had emphasized the need to switch from social programmes aimed at the poor to programmes offering something to average non-affluent US citizens , especially on health care ; to cut middle class taxes ; to boost unemployment benefits ; and to protect jobs from low-wage Mexico 's competition ( a reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement currently in the final stages of negotiation ) . |
| 4 | As might be expected , losses due to accidents took anything from a healthy nibble to a large chunk from the companies ' profits . |
| 5 | Untouched and unmanaged by humans , these horses are nonetheless used to researchers watching them closely , and their interrelationships are will known . |
| 6 | I 'm not used to doctors asking me if I want something else ! |
| 7 | ‘ That 's fine on the food — I 'll buy the drinks , I 'm too old to get used to women buying my drinks . ’ |
| 8 | I was n't used to uniforms calling me ‘ sir ’ . |
| 9 | Maybe her husband was used to men calling her up , maybe not . |
| 10 | He also failed to acknowledge that there are other forms of child care which should form a list of options available to women to enable them to combine their home and work responsibilities . |
| 11 | Predictably , while the government with one hand is distorting their expenditure and creating unnecessary expense , it is with the other reducing the discretion available to councils to raise their own resources . |
| 12 | Newcastle Polytechnic is appealing to businesses to use its cut-rate research service to solve industrial problems . |
| 13 | John 's appealing to planners to change their minds and let his pub 's new colour stay . |
| 14 | John 's appealing to planners to change their minds and let his pub 's new colour stay . |
| 15 | I felt close to tears to think he doubted my word . |
| 16 | Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia . |
| 17 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 18 | RCA , in particular , using a non-laser disc system , found that linear movies on disc were simply not sufficiently attractive to consumers to encourage them to buy hardware systems that could do nothing else than playback such movies . |