Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And most preferred to pay by cash , fearing soaring credit card rates and the prospect of unemployment . |
| 2 | After 1848 , the Tsar 's forces were , relative to his rivals , increasingly technically backward ; he was less and less able to intervene as gendarme . |
| 3 | Once a worry-eater — usually a woman — learns to become more aware of herself and her emotions in the way shown in part II , she will be more able to control her reactions to stress and anxiety and less likely to turn to food for comfort . |
| 4 | They got their chance to delve into the details at a news conference … but Chris Dean also got the chance to say how pleased he and Jayne are to be in the region and finally able to stay at home . |
| 5 | And we knew how frightened she was , how disturbed , because Luke told us that — told us fresh from her bed and hardly able to speak for laughter . ’ |
| 6 | Women are generally less tied to their work and more able to adjust to retirement ( though as more and more women devote great energy and interest to a career , this is changing ) . |
| 7 | We have become more civilised and more sensitive to the needs of individuals , and more reluctant to pander to prurience : hence our law against naming rape or blackmail victims , the limits on reporting evidence in divorce cases , and the rules against revealing old criminal convictions . |
| 8 | Ties with extended kin are very much a matter of personal choice ; those with members of one 's nuclear family are more enduring and more likely to lead to responsibility for care . |
| 9 | The eventual aim is find out whether engineered genes render a crop plant more aggressive than its traditional relatives — and more likely to decamp from cultivation . |
| 10 | Local authorities , housing associations , community groups , government agencies , private developers and building societies were all represented at the launch , where they were told how Middlesbroughwrought experience and expertise could be applied to similar schemes nationwide , with the SkillBuilding social enterprise company offering guidance on planning , funding , construction and long-term management and also able to act as developer or sub-contractor . |
| 11 | Absolutely nothing , it 's politically biased and as much to do with music as The Beano |
| 12 | It 's the kind of objects that get changed more frequently , and particularly those to do with colour , were mainly the wife 's decisions . |
| 13 | It would be perverse to find fault with the elevation of Aids awareness to the status of a rock cause , and particularly silly to fret about performance infelicities ( nobody really looks to David Bowie for enlightenment , do they ? ) providing the message gets across and the money comes in . |
| 14 | Burrowing in sandstones and siltstones may often be cryptic , and sometimes difficult to distinguish from water escape structures . |
| 15 | Garter snakes could almost have been made for the purpose , being undemanding in their housing and dietary requirements , harmless and relatively simple to breed in captivity … certainly less problematic than any lizard . |
| 16 | It would be interesting and potentially lively to engage in maths or history or music in the midst of a project on ‘ Warwick Castle ’ ( say ) , or ‘ Myself ’ , or ‘ Transport ’ , but projects tend to contain inherent biases to one subject area or another . |
| 17 | It is too simple a matter to damage those rare few who are too brave , too scornful and too trusting to put on armour . |
| 18 | The usual reason these days is that the target company employs an army of people with skills of a kind difficult and too time-consuming to assemble by recruitment , and that trying to build such a team would cost much more than buying the company . |
| 19 | As a rule of thumb guide , to the effectiveness of a machine , items coming out should be visibly clean and too hot to handle with comfort . |