Example sentences of "[adj] and [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 2 | To quote a price by rail is quite simple and to despatch by rail a matter of plainest routine , but it is not so with canals . |
| 3 | Please also remember that Ash Wednesday , which is this Wednesday , is one of the only two days a year on which we are asked to fast and to abstain from eating meat . |
| 4 | Swainson 's and Forbes ' energies were diffused in their own struggle for existence ( though both hoped to live like gentlemen rather than just exist ) and the need to write fast and to lecture for money and reputation . |
| 5 | It will be seen from this that there are significant differences in terms of individual 's abilities to approach the optimum and to improve with repetition . |
| 6 | This label allowed us to start from the simple proposition that in some classrooms more than one teacher was present and to explore without preconception what they were doing . |
| 7 | Truly , to be always happy and to pass through life without a mental pang is to be ignorant of one half of nature . ’ |
| 8 | Add all this together and you have a formidable coalition of parents — black , Hispanic , Asian as well as the mainly Catholic groups like the Italians and the Irish — who want schools to be orderly , their children to be safe , the teaching to be orthodox and to concentrate on reading , writing and arithmetic . |
| 9 | It was only when I was involved in learning which allowed me to be creative and to develop without feeling threatened , that statements like this became meaningful . |