Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limiting a bed or an area of a border to all the various shades of a single colour produces a sophisticated effect , although on a larger scale it may appear monotonous unless relieved by a subtle use of green or variegated foliage . |
| 2 | I may now consider myself significant , even of importance , I may now feel strong and reassured by those who have helped and loved me , but for inner strength , the strength when I am alone or awake in the night , or when old feelings rear their hoary heads , I turn to what is beneath my feet . |
| 3 | When do you feel light and contented in your being ? |
| 4 | At a time when no one else may seem to approve of them , and they may not much like themselves , it is of the utmost importance that teenagers should feel wanted and loved by their parents . |
| 5 | I knew exactly how I would do this and explained in some detail , finding Alec Reid equally fascinated . |
| 6 | The point was that it basically has to come from yourself and if you feel funny about yourself , then maybe you should go to the root of what 's making you feel funny as opposed to just taking downers and then taking uppers . |
| 7 | One young woman , Lucy , told how sad she felt that her mother had very low self-esteem , believed she was unattractive and overweight — even said once that there was nothing she could do or be that Lucy and her sisters ‘ could n't do or be better ’ , which made Lucy feel envied and forced into competition with her mother , when she did n't want to be . |
| 8 | Even the best trained staff can feel deskilled and devalued by increasingly disturbed numbers of residents to look after , and , over time , staff can also come to feel alienated by stress . |
| 9 | Patients can feel insecure and frightened in this new environment and anxiety increases the risk of accident . |
| 10 | Tail square , but may appear forked when pressed against tree trunk . |
| 11 | In Freud 's model , the equalitarian group , the band of brothers , can only feel equal and united in their common relationship to the dominant chief , or father ; that is , to the individual leader . |
| 12 | The sensitive , the unsure , the non-aggressive boy reader must often feel inadequate when faced with the ‘ ideal boy ’ of stories . |
| 13 | Others who are insecure about being adopted may feel ashamed and confused by being ‘ different ’ . |
| 14 | On occasions , some of the rules can appear esoteric when viewed in isolation but can usually be explained by reference to one of the General Principles . |
| 15 | If nervousness prevents you from participating in events , you may feel isolated and mistrusted by others . |
| 16 | From nowhere she knew just as instinctively that the woman who married this man would always feel secure and cherished by his strength and kindness . |
| 17 | The April meeting had decided that the mining ban would remain operative unless overturned by a vote of at least 75 per cent in favour . |
| 18 | Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her . |
| 19 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 20 | If it grows intense enough they can become glazed and paralysed by it — tharn , to use their own word . |
| 21 | Furthermore , any dwelling below these " control limits " would become decontrolled when let to a new tenant . |
| 22 | Each group , then , must sound complete if played without the others , and the part-writing must in each case be smooth and correct . |
| 23 | Must remember this when tempted into the local hen shop. ) 9 pm Ben Frow arrives to try on costumes for Re:Joyce . |
| 24 | That is , the motivating biological metaphor of the Prisoners ' Dilemma generates a transition rule that is simple , but it would look horrendous if expressed in canonical cellular automata terms . |
| 25 | Drugs helped me become accepted and liked by the crowd . ’ |
| 26 | That picture I surmised , would look well if paired with Van Gogh 's Chair . |
| 27 | North Korea had also signed long-delayed nuclear inspection accords with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) at the end of January , but had stated that these would not become effective until ratified by the Supreme People 's Assembly — the country 's legislature — which was unlikely to occur before April . |
| 28 | Under Japanese law , a Diet member 's signature did not become effective until endorsed by the Diet as a whole , however , and on this occasion House Speaker Yoshio Sakurauchi ruled that the resignations would not be considered until the political situation had " normalized " . |
| 29 | Natural wood can look stunning when contrasted with smooth laminates . |
| 30 | Being trapped by such circumstances may well increase the individual 's likelihood of suffering a psychiatric disorder , because , by definition , they would become unable or restricted in capacity to deal with the developing difficulties . |