Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This highlights how Fazisi had to struggle and how great their achievement was . |
| 2 | You have to try and please both parties . |
| 3 | lost something and I ca n't , I ca n't find it and I 'm looking and I 'm , and ee , and er , a bit of a noise or anything I 'm looking backwards is coming and then I realize he 's not there any more to come and then other days I just feel like I 'm dangling in the air and can see the , the ground and I ca n't touch it with my feet , just somewhere right , right out , it 's not real , not real you know and then you go , you get back to with a bump and know that it 's real and then it just feels left , nothing else , you ca n't help yourself in any other way . |
| 4 | Hardly anyone can have learned both to read and to write and probably few learned even to read just by attending Sunday classes . |
| 5 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 6 | There is already substantial evidence to show that the wives of unemployed claimants are less likely to work and more likely to stop working once their husbands are unemployed , than other women . |
| 7 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 8 | I was now better able to concentrate and better able to take stock . |
| 9 | The problem with delegation for managers is how much to trust and how much to control the tasks which have been delegated . |
| 10 | Moral : care is advised when testing ; gold , is hard to find and distressingly easy to lose . |
| 11 | Very expensive liver sausages may be made from calves ' or goose livers , but these are difficult to find and very rich in taste . |
| 12 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 13 | The pyocyanases and the penicillia did not appear to harm patients , but they were too difficult to extract and too unstable to be useful . |
| 14 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 15 | Verbs , on the other hand , and especially adverbs , are more likely to be abstract concepts that are harder to define and more unpredictable in their use . |
| 16 | The ideal cell lineage marker should be cell localized , cell autonomous , stable , ubiquitous , easy to detect and developmentally neutral . |
| 17 | Because although the problems in which philosophers begin are fairly easy to state and quite straightforward , erm certainly when they begin they end up in some rather strange regions . |
| 18 | They were specially good blackberries here , easy to reach and not dusty , like at the side of a road . |
| 19 | Most systems have languages that are too cryptic , too difficult to remember and too large , he complained . |
| 20 | ‘ If I may speak in a spirit of complaint , David , I might point out that it 's easy for you to talk and even easier to talk tough . |
| 21 | 9% of physicians refused to participate and only 322 of the 405 included did take part . |
| 22 | Its light weight and high tensile strength make it easy to install and wonderfully versatile . |
| 23 | The IDBs , who are in constant contact with all GEMMs , will be able to match offers to buy and to sell and so localised shortages and surpluses of particular stocks will be quickly ironed out . |
| 24 | Surely we should n't allow that c to continue and surely that 's er that 's er can be made into quite a semi-formal type of that 's not on is it ? |
| 25 | Another medical check could find no organic reason for his failure to thrive and so psychological help was requested . |
| 26 | 4 Think pink for a powerful lip colour that is easier to wear and less likely to run than dark colours . |
| 27 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 28 | One round to go and only two points separated the top four teams . |
| 29 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 30 | Realising this , Pampers have just launched their New Compact Pampers — which are the same top-quality nappies in boy and girl varieties , in the same sizes , but in a smaller , easier to carry and more convenient pack . |