Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , employers were not propelled into joining associations since by the time they were required by legislation to bargain with unions US manufacturing was itself organised into sufficiently large company units for employers to be self-sufficient and not to require association bargaining ( Thomson , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | In a country as large as Australia the need for transportation fuels is paramount and even to keep growth down to this level will mean continuing efforts at economy by use of smaller cars and the replacement of oil-fired by coal-fired power stations . |
| 3 | The autocratic style of a president who regarded state-controlled radio and television as a transmission service for the government , who felt free to interpret his constitution as he saw fit and regularly to circumvent parliament or his own ministers teetered perpetually on the verge of excess . |
| 4 | This leaflet explains who is exempt and how to claim exemption . |
| 5 | Both treatments would enable patients to be awake and so to receive light at their earlier ‘ critical period ’ . |
| 6 | Call our London office for more details on properties available and how to visit Mallorca . |
| 7 | It was no longer necessary , when building a moderate sized house , to be completely practical and simply to provide shelter — people had more money and thus concentrated more on pleasing their eye . |
| 8 | The contact was brief but sensual and enough to melt Ruth 's heart . |
| 9 | Described as a " magazine for the fair daughters of Great Britain and Ireland " it contained a variety of essays , articles , poems and serials when it first appeared , and announced that its aim was to " convince the sceptical that it is wise and well to qualify women to maintain themselves honourably and decently when through illness , death and desertion or bankrupt circumstances [ they are ] thrown on their own resources " . |