Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might rarely want to roll the treble off the neck pickup , but you can take treble off the bridge pickup , if it 's a little hairy for you , and still be sure of a full-treble sound on the neck pickup when you hit the switch hard left . |
| 2 | Besides helping to understand the primary events of photosynthesis , Tien envisages his thin films could be biomimetic solar energy transducers . |
| 3 | It was , partly , against this background that the government decided to launch a state-sponsored newspaper to act as a unifying factor in the nation , and help in the effort to improve the quality of print journalism in the country , besides helping to bring government policy and other activities to the awareness of all citizens . |
| 4 | It was , partly , against this background that the government decided to launch a state-sponsored newspaper to act as a unifying factor in the nation , and help in the effort to improve the quality of print journalism in the country , besides helping to bring government policy and other activities to the awareness of all citizens . |
| 5 | Besides helping to unravel the myriad interactions between adolescent development and social and occupational structures , the initiative will also be seeking answers to practical policy questions in the fields of education , training and employment . |
| 6 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 7 | The wood was loosely stacked to provide the rabbits with temporary cover until such time as they enlarged the burrows themselves . |
| 8 | The army sets out on its way to France , and Roland is duly posted to lead the rear , together with the flower of Charlemagne 's feudatories , the twelve peers of France . |
| 9 | Moreover , the section of the work-force most given to strike action showed every sign of increasing its weight both in relative and absolute terms . |
| 10 | If you really can only go shopping once a week , you will have to store all you fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator or somewhere cool to prevent them from spoiling . |
| 11 | These proposals for ‘ top-down ’ changes , which effectively sought to redraw the service boundaries , would probably achieve little , however , unless the real operational problems of delivering the service to individual clients were also tackled . |
| 12 | On every deserted street gutted houses sagged open , their contents indecently exposed to view . |
| 13 | The powerful Banking Association reportedly welcomed the treaty as an important step in improving Panama 's international image despite the fact it had successfully lobbied to preserve regulations guaranteeing banking secrecy which the USA had wanted removed . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) François Seurel , narrator , mostly sprechgesang to set scenes , describe locations and weather . |
| 15 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 16 | This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this . |
| 17 | It is that sentence the club will most want to see cut . |
| 18 | Although development work on this discovery continued , it was a process called Lime Soda softening which was commercially developed to overcome the problems of hard water . |
| 19 | John 's manner was off-putting to the faint-hearted , but as I slowly got to know him , realised his lack of physical and social grace covered an ultra-soft centre , and I came to love the man . |
| 20 | But the most surprised man in the field was Gillner when he was approached by a PGA European Tour official on the 13th and politely asked to take his time . |
| 21 | It was clearly a short-term appointment , arguably calculated to reassure members of the renamed Overseas Civil Service that , at a time when morale might falter as career opportunities shrank with the imminence of independence , at least one of them and not ‘ a Whitehall warrior ’ was at the helm . |
| 22 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 23 | They are , for the most part , light entertainments enlivened by mysterious foreigners , odd situations and an abundance of documentary detail deftly manipulated to appear at once familiar and slightly absurd or ominous . |
| 24 | In early March the Foreign Minister , Jiri Dienstbier , had also declared that his country would eventually want to join the European Communities . |
| 25 | ‘ And we shall eventually want to take statements from everyone — in particular , the six ladies who baked these cakes . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Carrying a knife makes you feel big , you 'll eventually want to use it , ’ said one . |
| 27 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 28 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 29 | It is easy enough to identify features that are likely to provoke laughter and were presumably intended to do so amongst the common attributes of the fabliaux . |
| 30 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |