Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet the survey also found the same drivers were far more likely to drive badly and to flout the law . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | US and Mexican anti-drug officials suggested that the army was present to protect rather than to detain the drug shipment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is far safer to tan slowly than to burn first . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He would not have found it possible to gamble deeply or to accumulate more debt . |
| 16 | The data subject is entitled to access personally or to authorise another . |