Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grendon is unlike all other prisons in Britain , not least because it 's easier to get out than to get in . |
| 2 | It is not hard to see how attempts to value popular culture or television , or to legitimize their academic study , come up against Adorno and Horkheimer as a check which it may be easier to think around than to think through . |
| 3 | Thus you play into the hands of that force which desires your downfall and wishes to hinder your inner progress , leaving you to shut the gate on the prison you have built for yourself , afraid to step out and to try anew to overcome your weaknesses . |
| 4 | Out of nerves and hero worship , he had three double Scotches before setting out and two more on the way , and then made himself self-destructively late by going into a greengrocer 's to buy some mint to chew so as to disperse the Scotch . |
| 5 | Yet the survey also found the same drivers were far more likely to drive badly and to flout the law . |
| 6 | Opponents of the project to remove the road have been quick to point out that to reunite the expanse of archaeological remains carries a political subtext of cancelling out of one of the most potent symbols of Mussolini 's fascist State . |
| 7 | But when you think if you go to your corner shop and you , you do n't want a lot it 's cheaper to go there than to get in a car |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the end of a year it 's good to look back and to feel that you have made some progress in your spiritual life . |
| 10 | US and Mexican anti-drug officials suggested that the army was present to protect rather than to detain the drug shipment . |
| 11 | Over the years , sensitive tutor-organisers , with the personality to work harmoniously with Federation and branch officers , have consistently been able to promote rather than to threaten voluntaryism . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even if the second pre-condition is met , Albert Reynolds is unlikely to go further than to promise that a referendum would be held , if everything else was agreed . |
| 14 | The student may be able to stand back and to relativize his or her own learning . |
| 15 | We urgently need funds to be able to respond effectively and to meet the increased demands being made on us as well as to maintain our existing work . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is far safer to tan slowly than to burn first . |
| 19 | Many would argue fiercely for local autonomy , in both sectors , which makes it possible to develop flexibly and to take responsibility at a local level . |
| 20 | He appreciates their design features : what a kangaroo gains and loses by moving in leaps , why horses change gait , why it is harder to walk quickly than to jog at an easy pace . |
| 21 | But it is difficult to get there and to find people being tortured ; it is such a horrible activity that it is done in secret . |
| 22 | He would not have found it possible to gamble deeply or to accumulate more debt . |
| 23 | The data subject is entitled to access personally or to authorise another . |