Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't fiddle my results really — usually it 's easier to make up excuses for it being wrong than to go through and work it out to make it come out right . |
| 2 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ . |
| 3 | The Committee has pointed out that nothing is more foolish than to have timetable motions introduced after a Committee has sat for some sessions , perhaps debating the first two or three clauses of a Bill , and then , the guilloting having been introduced , the rest of the Bill — perhaps 60 , 70 or 80 clauses — is rushed through with hardly any debate . |
| 4 | Indeed , she could n't have got closer to doing what Cara wanted than to drive up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's house at the appointed time and ring his doorbell . |
| 5 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 6 | I think the purpose is more to encourage the faithful than to change minds or hearts . |
| 7 | It was funny because to start with I lost that much weight , because I was n't eating . |
| 8 | Doubtful whether to accept this honour , he was persuaded to do so when the NID asked him to represent them as well . |
| 9 | To speak of the " same substance " would be just as ungrammatical as to speak of the " same Socrates " . |
| 10 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 11 | That problem — almost the reverse one — is why individual organisms exist at all , especially in a form so large and coherently purposeful as to mislead biologists into turning the truth upside down . |
| 12 | Finally , the concept was a formula for expressing the fact that , in our system , ‘ the principles of private law have … been by the action of the Courts and Parliament so extended as to determine the position of the Crown and of its servants ’ . |
| 13 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 14 | Its basis is the naturally occurring substance uranium , an element which under certain circumstances can be made to become so unstable as to produce an explosive force . |
| 15 | One of Buchanan 's enduring practical proposals was that of a hierarchy of urban roads , which would be so arranged as to create ‘ urban rooms ’ from which through traffic would be excluded . |
| 16 | ‘ Returning now to the Long Stable , we enter the Upper Paddock , and first observe a hot-water apparatus , so arranged as to supply practically a constant supply . |
| 17 | Eden was prepared in principle to make concessions not only to Hitler but also to Mussolini if matters could be so arranged as to involve no loss of face . |
| 18 | The Court has already held , in its judgment of 23 November 1989 in the Torfaen case , that national rules governing the opening hours of retail premises reflect certain political and economic choices in so far as their purpose is to ensure that working and non-working hours are so arranged as to accord with national or regional socio-cultural characteristics , and that , in the present state of Community law , is a matter for the member states . |
| 19 | Naturally , the new dwellings had to be so arranged as to satisfy the requirements of building regulations and a significant stipulation of the old Constructional By-laws for Inner London under which this design was produced , related to the amount of daylight which must be admitted to habitable rooms . |
| 20 | The core question of the case , as far as this paper is concerned , was , whether the Defendants had failed to comply ‘ with the statutory requirements and whether the guidelines are reasonable or sufficiently clear as to provide adequate guidance to personnel employed by the Defendants in their maintenance and preservation of federal records ? |
| 21 | We would not be so brave as to suggest that ‘ anyone ’ can build their own computer . |
| 22 | While for analytical ( and polemical ) purposes these ideal types serve a useful purpose , it is arguable that states and processes are so conceptually and practically interdependent as to make naive any description or explanation of education exclusively in terms of one rather than the other . |
| 23 | However , during this period a rate of growth was achieved that was good by the standards of the mid-1970s , full employment was maintained , and inflation , while ever present , was never so high as to cause alarm . |
| 24 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
| 25 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 26 | When you are making these settings , go for levels which give good , solid recordings but are not so high as to overload the tape on signal peaks . |
| 27 | Industrialism requires a very delicate adjustment of demographic growth : not too fast ; because that will lower wages and thus both consumer demand and the incentive to labour saving investment ; not too slow , for that will raise wages so high as to entrench on profits and the capacity for investment . |
| 28 | The result of the above is that in one case costs are so high as to detract from its use , whereas the other positively attracts business . |
| 29 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 30 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |