Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] and [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , such feelings often tend to be both unpleasant to experience and to hinder behaviour . |
| 2 | If the ability to ask , to trust another to respond and to feel gratitude are three of the main derivatives of an early partnership and the basis of love , envy is one of the strongest antidotes to loving . |
| 3 | Goody , nevertheless , believes that such individuals are more likely to appear and to have scope for challenge in societies with the ‘ technology ’ of literacy . |
| 4 | Perhaps everyone who works with such old people needs a period of physical disability ( real or ‘ pretend ’ ) to see just what effort goes into the daily round and the strategies which are adopted the better to cope and to preserve independence . |
| 5 | This step was welcomed by the Cinematograph Times , which could not resist pointing out that ‘ much of the criticism directed against the art expressed in the cinema originates from the small class not yet accustomed to modern outlook ’ who assumes ‘ that no art can exist or progress that does not begin with their patronage ’ and ‘ who do not yet appreciate that the masses today are fully competent to judge and to give expression to their own tastes ’ . |
| 6 | The most successful zones have not been where the public sector has withdrawn , but where ( as in Corby or the Isle of Dogs ) one public-sector agency has been able to acquire and to service land for private developers and occupiers . |
| 7 | The testimonies in the book were obtained mostly from the underlings of the house , led by sly , supportive Bert , a man who was able to take and to give pleasure — a fine portrait , which is also a self-portrait , of a second father . |
| 8 | With its interest in cultural representation , the stories people tell about themselves , New Historicism is concerned to explore not only how the Renaissance fashioned itself , but how our present cultural categories allow us both to write and to understand culture . |