Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | George was probably wise to kill Lennie the way he did , preserving Lennie 's dignity . |
| 2 | However as the open society is one which confronts its citizens with choices , it would be helpful in an age which emphasises skills to spell out to target groups the " skills contribution " which effective history teaching can make to education for citizenship . |
| 3 | Having decided to attend university the next great dilemma is to choose which one . |
| 4 | To lose weight the intake of calories from the diet must be less than required — so that the shortfall is made up by burning off some of the excess weight , which is mainly , fatty tissue deposits . |
| 5 | Mindless of the fact she was in a flannel nightie , and had a green face , she looked quite prepared to go den the dragon . |
| 6 | To attract money the government will have to offer higher interest rates on bonds . |
| 7 | In the first attempts to write words the letters are just shapes to be copied like any other shapes . |
| 8 | In order to increase revenue the IMF recommended raising indirect taxes and reforming the fiscal system in order to broaden the tax base and to reduce tax evasion . |
| 9 | EM Forster was delighted to find Hardy the perfect host , commenting later that he ‘ always made sure one had plenty of cream in one 's tea ’ . |
| 10 | To retrieve data the controller has to tell the drive to move its heads , one track at a time , to the requisite track and where to start reading on that track . |
| 11 | To retrieve data the logical track and sector is passed to the drive which translates the data automatically to physical tracks and sectors . |
| 12 | In making time to provide reflection the head not only has to be clear about the relative priority of helping out , taking on chores and providing workaday leadership but also has to have confidence in the extent to which his or her colleagues expect leadership . |
| 13 | At about the same time a consortium of West European banks refused to grant Cuba the credits it had requested , apparently as a result of US pressure . |
| 14 | Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union . |
| 15 | After August 1939 Nizan was no longer willing to grant Stalin the benefit of the doubt . |
| 16 | On the question of whether or not to grant immigrants the right to vote in local elections , Michel Rocard , the PS Prime Minister , stated that the " extension of the right to vote in local elections to immigrants must be the consequence of successful integration , not its prerequisite " . |
| 17 | Vice Chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls , declining to grant Venables the injunction he sought yesterday , said that to have done so would override the majority decision of the Spurs board , which had the right to ‘ hire and fire . ’ |
| 18 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 19 | They were trying to catch Jack the Ripper . |
| 20 | Of that No 4 Group party which set out to bomb Italy the night they declared war on England , I know that four — and only four Whitleys — did get over the Alps . |
| 21 | and then you can That was very good mountain that 's a good one to know how to spell curtains the same . |
| 22 | In a bid to encourage councillors the company has offered to increase Darlington 's commission to 12.5pc . |
| 23 | Coming back from school in England , being met at the airport , hoping to find Francis the other side of the door into the main building . |
| 24 | Working , living and playing together in the knowledge that this may continue for many years to come increases the pressure to conform to the wishes of the group . |
| 25 | As in the past , this normally involved a process of barter : to obtain information the ambassador had to be able and willing to give it in return . |
| 26 | He stood up to indicate thai the conversation was at an end and that he had no wish to be involved as a partner in such blasphemous and heretical talk . |
| 27 | The gang of six I took to see Hook the other day all loved it . |
| 28 | ‘ First , I 'd like to see Alexander the Great , please . ’ |
| 29 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 30 | The position was that the Food Controller , purporting to be acting under Defence of the Realm Regulations , had imposed as a condition of the grant of a licence to purchase milk the payment to him by the purchaser of a charge of 2d. per gallon . |