Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 2 | Better to have a go and fail than not to have a go at all . ’ |
| 3 | Comments that the ‘ recession is bottoming out ’ seem more often than not to have a hollow ring about them . |
| 4 | It 's better not to have to have pensions than not to have pensions , surely not . |
| 5 | After last night he would be more anxious than ever to have their journey over . |
| 6 | She was delighted rather than otherwise to have an extra visitor , and she chattered throughout the excellent dinner , preventing Robbie from concentrating on the fascinating conversation going on between Fen and the rector . |
| 7 | Is it better to have published and gone out of print than never to have published at all ? |
| 8 | ‘ And terrible though it is , Mama , is n't it better to feel like this now than never to have known what it was like to love someone so much ? ’ |
| 9 | Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own . |
| 10 | But what is it to have the concept ‘ pain' if not to have in one 's mind some notion of what the word means , a notion presumably acquired by experiencing pain ? |
| 11 | In sum , then , one can say little more on the basis of the scanty information available than that Molla Yegan appears to have abandoned his official posts by at least 844/1440–1 ; to have returned from his journey to the Hijaz , in company with Molla Gurani , whom he presented at the Ottoman court , not earlier than alter the pilgrimage of 844/1441 but very possibly not much later ; if not to have continued to be a figure of some importance in the state until at least 857/1453 , to have re-emerged as such then , though without , apparently , holding any official post ; and to have died at some time alter that date , perhaps in 878/1473–4 . |
| 12 | So as not to have to watch the empty road for the postman on the day that the results were due each girl went separately deep into the fields but they were n't able to stay alone for long ; and each time they came back to the road it was still empty . |
| 13 | By fifty a married man or woman was as likely as not to have suffered widowhood , and would have already lost half his or her contemporaries : in contrast to a mere twentieth today . |
| 14 | Fair enough but in the future so as not to have |
| 15 | She tried to concentrate on this so as not to have to think about what Finn was saying . |
| 16 | Melanie kept her eyes on the witch-ball so as not to have to look at Uncle Philip . |
| 17 | Then they hurried far away , so as not to have to listen to his cries . |
| 18 | Er but if they 're a sensing thinking person they will find it almost totally incomprehensible , that you 've been so lax as not to have actually worked out in detail erm you know what their job is ? |
| 19 | For instance it buys up stock which is nearing its redemption date , so as not to have to make large repayments over a short period of time . |
| 20 | Where you know so as not to have to risk going having to go to an expensive B and B because all the cheap places have gone . |
| 21 | Though even to have achieved that , may I presume to suggest , might have required a certain degree of divine intervention . ’ |
| 22 | You may be expected as well to have already worked for some time in a related financial area , such as stock broking . |
| 23 | The only scholar as yet to have followed this scent is Tom Paulin in his Thomas Hardy ; The Poetry of Perception ( Totowa , New Jersey , 1975 ) . |
| 24 | In the case of Japan , however , enterprise bargaining seems as yet to have been rather less affected by centralising forces ( although , since 1973 , there has been some de facto industry-wide bargaining in the major metal industries ) . |
| 25 | Whether this redirection has yet had much effect in the classroom is another matter entirely from my own observations there seems as yet to have been few major changes in practice . |
| 26 | It is new but it does not seem as yet to have taken on in terms of traffic . |
| 27 | Whilst it may possibly have been the intention to increase the amount in the new rates , no provision appears as yet to have been made . |