Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [noun pl] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is wrong to make businesses pay more than they can afford . |
| 2 | ‘ It is surely wrong to make unions police unofficial action which they have not endorsed . ’ |
| 3 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 4 | Not content to let surgeons perform unguided , she remains conscious to give instructions and read aloud from books of psychoanalysis . |
| 5 | She found it vaguely shocking to hear mothers ask small children what they wanted and casually add the often quite arbitrary choice of the child to the pile of goods already in the trolley . |
| 6 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |