Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the other Anaglyptas , they have a flat paper backing , making them easier to apply and also to strip . |
| 2 | The new edition ensures that these extensively researched tests are now even easier to administer and quicker to mark . |
| 3 | It 's then easier to use and easier to print out . |
| 4 | Alternatively , planners may have a high potential demand for these services , and are therefore concerned to make them easier to use and thereby to expand their use . |
| 5 | SUCCESSFUL firms are easy to spot but hard to explain . |
| 6 | The trick is to be fully aware of the range of conditions one is likely to encounter and then to select the clothes which offer the greatest versatility and which will cope with the harshest of these conditions . |
| 7 | They imply that it is psychologically or biologically natural to recognize and perhaps to rank these differences . |
| 8 | Because shoe laces are hard to tie but easy to trip over . |
| 9 | Hourani describes a sense of secondariness in contemporary Arab identity : ‘ It is no longer to have a standard of values of one 's own , not to be able to create but only to imitate ; and so not even to imitate correctly , since that also needs a certain originality . ’ |
| 10 | Following Chin 's accidental death in 1960 , it was not until 1972 that he was able to reduce and finally to leave cardiac work ; and from then until his retirement in June 1987 he devoted himself to chest surgery at Southampton , Basingstoke and King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 11 | It is therefore important to teach and always to think of the stick movement as being a progressive forward movement made until the spin stops . |
| 12 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 13 | The new CD-ROM format will be faster to access and easier to manipulate . |
| 14 | We are not , therefore , in the position of being able to foresee or systematically to plan for large accessions of unpublished , electronically generated material . |
| 15 | There are two contradictory images ; an idealised one is of a benign , wise , peaceful old person , available to listen and perhaps to advise and to draw valuably upon life experience . |
| 16 | It is now agreed that global action is urgently required to first to control and then to reduce these and other emissions . |
| 17 | A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening . |
| 18 | She was much too weary to eat or even to open her post ; she would do that later . |
| 19 | The demands on the human operator are difficult to quantify or even to describe because the process is essentially an interactive one . |
| 20 | This was partly because it proved so difficult to crush or even to assess the strength of the ‘ People 's Will ’ . |