Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We will certainly need very soon to reconsider the levels of subscriptions paid by the employed Bar in comparison with those paid by those in private practice .
2 It is a classic example of the waste of local taxpayers ' money by a foolish council which would do much better to spend the money on the services for which it is statutorily responsible .
3 So though it is perfectly practicable to take a trip to Heiden by car ( a direct road leads from Rorschach ) you would do much better to leave the car behind , go along to the station of the Rorschach-Heiden mountain railway near the harbour , take a cogwheel train , sit back in one of the red coaches and enjoy the gradually changing view .
4 Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) .
5 It was a gamble , that the economy could grow fast enough to sustain the repayments .
6 Stavov supports Van Laue argues that the only way Russia might advance fast enough to avoid the disaster of inevitable global conflict was through a ‘ totalitarian planned economy ’ .
7 When this has been tested and discussed and agreed , we will do well clearly to commission a team for the work .
8 Insofar as the ‘ post ’ of postmodernism points to a lack , an emptying of a previous content , an absence of positive connotations to the present , then the term might do quite well to describe the current mood of dissatisfaction in Italian literary culture .
9 At parish level , individuals can work together either to safeguard the character of their local village , or to improve its appearance .
10 To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers .
11 Thrombolytic therapy alone will not work sufficiently rapidly to relieve the pain , nor will intravenous beta blockade .
12 As we shall see in later sections , HARPY made sure , by structuring the grammar in particular ways , that a narrow portion would occur soon enough to prevent a combinatorial explosion of hypotheses .
13 If that does n't score highly enough to win a contest the next stage is to grapple on the ground until one player wins by holding down an opponent for 30 seconds .
14 If everyone in the developed world made energy efficiency a priority in all parts of their lives , the carbon dioxide we add to the atmosphere could drop quickly enough to make a real difference to global warming .
15 Then you could decide more promptly to do the necessary work of grieving for what you 've never had , recognising how much you still have , and get on with your life in other useful and enjoyable ways .
16 The two chalk-drawn images , on either side of a Black(Bird)board , do n't rotate fast enough to achieve the required effect .
17 At frequencies above ο max the dipoles can not move fast enough to follow the alternating field so both ε′ and ε′′ are low .
18 Erm against that there is this elephant which appears , and you say we might have it and find a zoo for it , and in fact we ca n't move fast enough to find the zoo .
19 Both branches would move steadily outwards to form the oceanic crust , which , as it got progressively further away from the ridge would rapidly acquire a thin veneer of deep sea sediments ( muds and clays , mixed up with myriads of tiny shells from planktonic organisms ) .
20 Does it so restrict as effectively to frustrate the actual development permitted ?
21 This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record .
22 But the West should know that , however long it takes to end the battle against the Iraqi tyrant , it will take much longer to end the bitterness he has tapped in the unhappy Middle East .
23 Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings .
24 Conceivably , the controls on litter and the promised crackdown on pollution will happen quickly enough to produce a political pay-off .
25 Any attempt to frame a definition along these lines , however , would run aground because , although such a definition could be made fairly general , it would not discriminate sharply enough to provide a guarantee of hyponymy :
26 It believes that audit committees and the obligatory rotation of audit partners may not go far enough to convince the public of their independence , and suggests that shareholders should be more involved in appointing auditors , determining the scope of the audit , and in the decision to obtain other services from the auditing firm .
27 But the borehole must go deep enough to reach the aquifer , even if this means drilling far below the potentiometric surface .
28 The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance .
29 We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place .
30 Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann .
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