Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm not such a fool as to look for love again . ’ |
| 32 | Though — ’ he sat back and gave her a grim smile ‘ — I hope he 's not such a fool as to pay over the odds for your services . ’ |
| 33 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 34 | I am less concerned to focus on the psychopathology of individuals than to point to a collective , cultural condition ‘ and the tendencies of people who make it up ’ ( May , 1969 ) . |
| 35 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 36 | The regional materials of each area , once so varied , began their slow demise as bricks , for instance , became cheaper to import from the Midlands than to bake in the village kiln . |
| 37 | In all this work he functions as a kindly nurse who has no other business than to care for the well-being of her charge . |
| 38 | She knew , as she carried articles that required hanging up through to the wardrobes , that she was not going to tresspass any further on Ven 's generosity than to partake of a cup of tea with him . |
| 39 | However , When we come to more detailed considerations — such as exactly where this ‘ golden age ’ is to be located in real historical time — then we are confronted with such a disorderly jumble of datemarks and vague historical allusion as to allow for wide margins of disagreement even among dedicated ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts . |
| 40 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 41 | In addition the child can become very frightened , thinking that he must have been very naughty indeed for Mummy to prefer to go to be with Jesus than to stay with him . |
| 42 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 43 | What better way for the hired hand to disprove the notion than to dispense with writers and stagers entirely ? |
| 44 | However , when we come to more details considerations — such as exactly where this ‘ golden age ’ is to be located in real historical time — then we are confronted with such a disorderly jumble of datemarks and vague historical allusions as to allow for wide margins of disagreement even among dedicated ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts . |
| 45 | One person may become a Christian because to believe in Jesus is ‘ where it 's at ’ . |
| 46 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 47 | One side without the other is likely to create problems and it may be better not to make an appointment than to settle for someone who is seriously inadequate either as a musician or as a leader . |
| 48 | There could be no better way of demonstrating the variety of tasks that normally falls on the shoulders of a manager than to reproduce in full in Figure 4.1 the ‘ Allocation of Jobs ’ list that the collective bureau at Charing Cross uses . |
| 49 | do that she must come very early in the morning cos to go from here cos all the old boys were flirting she had to look like . |
| 50 | It seems that the law 's answer is that notwithstanding the general rule about the jus tertii P's claim may be barred by public policy if to assist in recovery of the property would offend the court 's conscience . |
| 51 | You must decide at the start whether to go to court or use arbitration ; if you use arbitration you can not start court action afterwards . |
| 52 | You must decide at the start whether to go to court or use arbitration ; if you use arbitration you can not start court action afterwards . |
| 53 | Yet so striking was the colour of the child 's hair and of that which showed beneath the flat straw hat of the woman as to appear like distorted jogging lights in the dimness . |
| 54 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 55 | But Calero , for all his ‘ democratic armour ’ , wished more to fight wars than to play at politics ; the fragile political coalition of leaders did not survive , and there was no constitutional cruise . |
| 56 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 57 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 58 | My request was dismissed with some amusement by my parents who added that I should have more sense than to believe in all that mumbo-jumbo . |
| 59 | So we are 60 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to die from salmonella ! |
| 60 | ‘ Better to endure her insults than to die of exposure . ’ |