Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reported last week that the NINA electron accelerator at Daresbury in Cheshire was built too slowly and too late to produce research comparable with that of similar machines elsewhere ( New Scientist 21 April , p 133 ) . |
| 2 | It might be more or less efficient or more or less fair to assign liability to one party or the other , and this is why it is important that the legislature or the courts , whichever first have occasion to set the rule , make the right substantive decision . |
| 3 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 4 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 5 | But the increasing activism of its supporters , particularly young Catholics living in ghetto areas , made it more and more difficult to exercise restraint . |
| 6 | He could hurt her with so little , she reflected , realising that she was finding it more and more difficult to keep hatred alive as a counterbalance to love . |
| 7 | Remember , if you get a mild reaction , you will need to proceed with caution until you can tell whether that food or food group is causing you to feel less well or less able to lose weight than you were at the end of Stage I. |