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

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1 Yet the survey also found the same drivers were far more likely to drive badly and to flout the law .
2 In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change .
3 After the pilot 's personal safety , the safety of the aircraft must be the next most important consideration ; it is always safer to land out than to risk trying to get back with marginal height .
4 It is far safer to tan slowly than to burn first .
5 One of his shakier concerns was an air-taxi service with which he scared the wits out of travellers too innocent to know better than to fly with him .
6 Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion .
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