Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 90° corners where resistance needs to be kept low or to reduce noise . |
| 2 | In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration : |
| 3 | The Committee has pointed out that nothing is more foolish than to have timetable motions introduced after a Committee has sat for some sessions , perhaps debating the first two or three clauses of a Bill , and then , the guilloting having been introduced , the rest of the Bill — perhaps 60 , 70 or 80 clauses — is rushed through with hardly any debate . |
| 4 | Right , halyards on the J/44 are best hauled just abaft the mast to keep the cockpit clear and to keep crew weight in the middle of the boat . |
| 5 | The well-drained , alkaline soil at Snowshill is greatly improved by the addition of compost , which helps both to keep the worm population high and to increase nutrient levels . |
| 6 | We have a range of initiatives which are designed to promote owner-occupation and to widen choice for tenants . |
| 7 | The only bad thing of course , if we were to get relegated but to bring promotion and relegation into speedway is a good thing because you know , if you win the lower league , what have you won it for ? |
| 8 | However , during this period a rate of growth was achieved that was good by the standards of the mid-1970s , full employment was maintained , and inflation , while ever present , was never so high as to cause alarm . |
| 9 | To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience . |
| 10 | Both he and my own doctor warned me to stop all running for the sake of my health ; their manner was so grave as to imply danger to my life . |
| 11 | Curran said : ‘ I 'm convinced that to finish top of the table we must win our remaining two home games with at least a victory and a draw needed in the away ties . |
| 12 | In my view the challenge to us all is to find adoptive families for those children for whom this is appropriate and to offer security to those new families and children for whom adoption is not appropriate , and to convince them . |
| 13 | Whichever way round it is , the task , complicated by the anthropologist 's limited mastery of the vernacular , is apt to be taxing and to require tact and patience of a high order . |
| 14 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 15 | It urged civil servants to be as helpful as possible and to withhold information only in the interests of national security and ‘ good government ’ . |
| 16 | It is necessary to find a way of transition as quickly as possible and to take action . |
| 17 | Although acquisition assistance may be less structured than normal corporate finance ( ie special ) work , it is important to impose a structure as early as possible and to maintain working papers in accordance with that structure . |
| 18 | During the city 's siege by Serbs , these people had a cause : to stay alive and to find food . |
| 19 | As Mr Jarvis observed ‘ The old days of teachers being trusted to be professional and to show commitment have gone . ’ |
| 20 | The local police had told the sergeant that Marek cycled to school every morning to keep fit and to save money . |
| 21 | Most trainees will be emphatic about their ability to be impartial , unprejudiced , empathetic and to keep confidentiality , but a few hard-hitting video scenes can catch even the most ‘ broadminded ’ trainee off guard . |
| 22 | Now life 's full of challenges , the business person on this world , is challenge to work hard and to make wealth . |
| 23 | This is intended to remove confusion about what constitutes organic and to stop abuse of the word . |
| 24 | Property and other social relations are both enabling and constraining people 's instincts to be self-determined and to protect self and kin . |
| 25 | But they need to be reassured that in all countries results from research tend to be indirect and to take time before they come to fruition . |
| 26 | The surface is not subdivided in any way : cyclists are expected to keep to the left and to have consideration for walkers . |
| 27 | ‘ When we arrived here , ’ said Fenella , and spared a thought for the absurdity of these words , because the manner of their arriving had been something so remarkable as to defy explanation or description . |
| 28 | All that I can say is that the actions of Councillor Bookbinder are so incredible as to defy belief . |
| 29 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 30 | A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers — the variety is so large as to make description impossible . |