—Mrs. Brown, I wonder if I could take the weekend off?— ______? It’s slightly difficult with so many people away on holiday, you know.
The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are in intelligence. If we take two unrelated people _____, their degree of intelligence might be completely different.
No matter how much time you spend planning a trip, things still _____ go wrong and air travel is no exception—from weather delays to lost luggage.
Vehicle designers are well aware that they need to ______ the idea of cars that have a low environmental impact.
Glass is obviously a wiser choice for the plate as it can easily be recycled and does not take hundreds of years to _____ like plastic.
Mike, whose ambition is to become a network engineer, was always ______from other boys by his programming ability.