Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Changing working practices and technological advances have made many jobs more inflexible and automated.

Modifies a noun

• rule: These codes are not meant to lay down strict or inflexible rules.

• barrier: Abreaction produces almost inflexible barriers, which are very difficult to change.

• attitude: Only the weak fear criticism and hide behind inflexible attitudes.

• regime: These are not aspirations that flourish according to the dictates of a program, a formula or an inflexible funding regime.

• working: An insistence on inflexible working may give rise to a claim of indirect sex or marriage discrimination under the SDA.

• hour: The survey found that pay and inflexible hours for lower paid staff are key reasons behind recruitment and retention problems.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: Flexibility As has been noted elsewhere in this response, CSS is a relatively inflexible scheme.

• somewhat: The suits themselves feel bulky and somewhat inflexible, but are remarkably comfortable overall.

• too: The former are too inflexible; the latter don't work effectively.

• totally: This was most of America: willing, eager to learn, but totally inflexible.

• rather: Although OMR is sometimes thought of as being rather inflexible, it is often the best tool to use.

• increasingly: The effect will make disabled people feel more fearful of an increasingly inflexible benefit system.

Infinitive complement

• change: Try to avoid too much detail as this can be two restrictive and inflexible to change.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: But The Master remains inflexible ] * Occupation of Iraq illegal, Blair told [ ' without a further UN resolution ' .

• become: On the other hand, highly co-ordinated funding could become inflexible.

• seem: They often have a very logical and direct style of thinking which may seem inflexible to others.

• prove: From this you will see that they are proving inflexible on the matter of the cost of the license.

• appear: While this might appear inflexible, it does put buyers in a better position than before.

Preposition: in

• term: The current rules are simply too narrow and inflexible in terms of both road safety and the rule of law.