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 .
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