Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody , therefore , has to lead the singing , either unaccompanied or to the accompaniment of a pre-recorded tape , and training is needed for this as well . |
| 2 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 3 | It 's very important to become quicker , smoother in your movement , to bend down low or to be able to jump up high in order for you to get this point of contact . |
| 4 | workload/demand measures : to indicate the amount due or to be done ; |
| 5 | His re-entry , however , either to mainstream or to the start of adult working life , may not be achieved so smoothly . |
| 6 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 7 | I emphasise that I do not believe that it is right to agree to measures which are damaging to the Scottish or to the British economy , and we have not done so . |
| 8 | Women are educated from an early age to distrust strangers , to avoid lonely places , to return home when it is light or to be accompanied when it is dark . |
| 9 | Also ‘ areas ’ may refer to a few kms 2 or to whole countries , so that areas or pockets of declining food production may coexist with , and have no social access to , other areas of increased food production . |
| 10 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 11 | We children gave no presents to one another or to our parents : we were content to send out a few picture cards paid for by our parents , to people who would send us cards . |
| 12 | We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit . |
| 13 | Furthermore , she has to turn the eggs regularly to prevent the membranes within them from adhering to one another or to the shell . |
| 14 | One monomer may be added to another or to itself in so-called addition reactions . |
| 15 | Work is also a form of transfer of energy from one system to another or to its surroundings . |
| 16 | In 19 out of the 24 subjects in the table ( right ) , their graduates are more likely to be unemployed or to be in short-term employment only . |
| 17 | Some gave handouts in cash or kind , sometimes to specific groups such as widows , orphans , the unemployed or to Jews who converted to Christianity , sometimes to anyone in visible need . |
| 18 | In the light of the preceding discussion it is necessary to consider the methodology of comparative industrial relations more fully since it is clear that to be of value the studies need to be appropriately designed and the cases to be compared require careful selection . |
| 19 | It is clear that to the ancient Egyptian death was not the end that there was thought to be life after death , for which certain provisions and preparations had to be made . |
| 20 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
| 21 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 22 | More importantly still , the influential Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , has repeatedly gone out of his way to express interest in the British proposals , emphasising that the French view is closer to the British than to the German . |
| 23 | The British government bought a controlling interest in Anglo-Persian , which from then on operated in Iran on terms much more favourable to the British than to the Iranians . |
| 24 | On the south side of the structure the concrete was cleaner than to the north , where it was discoloured with moss . |
| 25 | Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting . |
| 26 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 27 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 28 | He is afraid that to Freddie it will all sound naively idealistic , and rather nebulous . |
| 29 | " But " , he added , " I am afraid that to the aestheticians of these days you will seem like a sleepwalker , whom it is inadvisable , not to say dangerous , and , above all , impossible to follow . " |
| 30 | Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location . |