Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral : never start a big warren system other than at the beginning of the day 's work , since you need to complete it if at all possible rather than have to extend the work into another day . |
| 2 | Those who go quiet and coy even when offended need to work on this . |
| 3 | Such theories lead logically to leaving older people alone rather than attempting to improve the quality of their lives through continued social engagement . |
| 4 | The classical tradition held that Nature became beautiful only when subjected to reason ; the romantic view , that Nature was beautiful precisely because she was uncontrolled and was therefore in opposition to Reason . |
| 5 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 6 | Panic will not be too far away if having collected all your information you have only a little time to write the speech . |
| 7 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 8 | When in 1769 at a ball in St James 's palace the French ambassador in London , the comte du Châtelet-Lomont , risked provoking a diplomatic incident by pushing forward to assert precedence over his Russian colleague , Count Chernyshev , he was felt by most contemporaries to have been rude and indiscreet rather than to have shown a proper concern for the honour of Louis XV . |