Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way .
2 The most important item lacking was a turntable , which was needed so that Bishop 's Castle locomotives could work chimney first both up and down the line — an important safety consideration for passenger traffic as the engines would have been likely to run more steadily when going forward .
3 However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality .
4 When is it more important to go backwards fast than to go accurately under control ?
5 Thus , she has been able to move steadily rightwards while maintaining old links .
6 Much worse to begin too soon than to begin too late .
7 It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems .
8 Saxton is waiting by his 'phone for news from Spain , and says he 's ready to fly back there if called .
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