Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Vulnerable people should be aware that there are some laboratories and practitioners who rely on controversial and unproven procedures … which are not considered by independent observers either to be reliable or to have a scientific basis . ’ |
| 2 | It will enable you to challenge telephone bills if you think they are wrong and to gain a better idea of how much you are paying while you talk . |
| 3 | That is what it takes to become internationally popular and to have a longlasting career . |
| 4 | By holding a long contract for delivery at T 1 and a short contract for delivery at T 2 , it would be possible to take delivery at T 1 for P f 1 and keep the asset for making delivery at T 2 for P f 2 and to make a sure profit . |
| 5 | A swift response to the violence from the Russian leadership led to approval by an emergency sitting of the Security Council on Oct. 31 of the deployment of 3,000 elite troops in North Ossetia and a presidential decree to introduce a month-long state of emergency in North Ossetia and Ingushetia from Nov. 2 and to impose a temporary administration under Deputy Prime Minister , Georgy Khizha . |
| 6 | It would be better to operate on the present system and to get that right than to have a discriminatory cow premium . |
| 7 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |
| 8 | The other is to make meaning central and to construct a scientific method peculiar to the social world . |
| 9 | I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter 's lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution , Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban ( This Week , 3 March , p 567 ) . |
| 10 | I am not so naive as to expect a blinding flash of understanding , but bit by bit I think I am beginning to see patterns of behaviour , and even — in some cases — to recognise individuals . |
| 11 | The choice the Institution had therefore to face was either to accept poorer intellectual material at sixteen or to recruit a higher proportion of sixth formers . |
| 12 | Here again I was able to prove myself useful and to gain a little kudos : I could compose with what seemed to others an astonishing facility an ode or sonnet on behalf of some lovesick junior and addressed to some beefy , lacrosse-playing heroine in whom I myself had no emotional interest whatsoever . |
| 13 | On a personal level , I have to say that I found the fellowship 's officials to be delightfully hospitable and to have a genuine love for God . |
| 14 | The Immigration and Customs people at Ramsgate had been instructed to watch out for the Renault 18 but to keep a low profile and let it through . |
| 15 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 16 | County council officials have already gone on record as saying the humps are not so severe as to pose a major problem for the buses . |
| 17 | Oh nothing is worse Than to flog a dead horse |
| 18 | Lacking economic dynamism and political weight , the townsmen aspired no higher than to become a closed caste heavily burdened by duties to the State . |
| 19 | They are short and thin and to take a reasonable stride forward with its hind leg , the newt has to flex its body laterally . |
| 20 | ‘ Cheryl , I wonder if you would be so kind as to cast a professional eye over the experimental laboratories for me . ’ |
| 21 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 22 | No , top hat and tails have no real use other than to make a nervous bridegroom look even more awkward so that everyone can enjoy his discomfort and , therefore , the wedding . |
| 23 | First , the long term investor ( the one , Manne suggests , we should be most keen to protect ) must actually be selling for reasons other than to make a quick profit . |
| 24 | I 'm a secretary to pay the rent , and a very lazy ex-ballerina with no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free . |
| 25 | We might feel inclined to say : Well , that is a pity , but it would be a greater evil to interfere ; it would be worse to make the law uncertain than to leave a particular hardship unredressed . |
| 26 | The person who is suspected of welfare fraud is more likely to be detected , prosecuted , convicted and to receive a custodial sentence than those involved in a wide range of other forms of non-violent property offences , including fraud and tax evasion ( Uglow 1988b ) . |
| 27 | For our decade-conscious brains , an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle . |
| 28 | So it was easy to look frightened and to run a little way . |
| 29 | It may be argued , therefore , that the loss of exchange rate changes as a policy instrument does not involve a cost sufficiently significant as to constitute a convincing argument against the creation of the European currency union . |