Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pedestrianism remained a source of extra money for good runners , who were willing to sacrifice the more socially prestigious amateur laurels . |
| 2 | In 1939 , after several years of study , the Conservative government attempted to reorganize the rather inefficient operation of the two airlines and to encourage more competition . |
| 3 | Electrode pullers may be either electromagnetically or gravity-operated and are commercially available from a number of suppliers , Minor modification may be necessary in order to fit tubing of 1.0 mm diameter because most pullers are designed to accommodate the slightly larger , standard microelectrode capillary tubing . |
| 4 | The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject . |
| 5 | You will need to adjust the tension dial to accommodate the rather thicker yarn you are using . |
| 6 | One problem that can arise is that of a particular school being full and so unable to accommodate the newly arrived expatriate 's children . |
| 7 | Such preaching , far from deterring the people , attracted them in such large numbers that the parish church of St.Mary and All Saints , which held about 1,000 , was filled beyond its capacity so that five galleries had to be erected to accommodate the greatly enlarged congregation . |
| 8 | It is rare for a house of this size and date to remain thatched , for so often the roof pitch would be changed to accommodate the more convenient slates or tiles . |
| 9 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 10 | The emphasis on helping the visually handicapped pupil to develop skills to cope with his school environment , rather than adapting the environment significantly to accommodate the visually handicapped child , may , however , be usefully tempered by an understanding of the way in which the developmental and experiential levels of the child can be affected by his school life . |
| 11 | His killer , a 16-year-old hired assassin who was wounded and captured , later claimed that a stranger had provided him with a submachine gun and directed him to kill the UP leader . |
| 12 | Last year , serious assaults soared by 45 per cent from 1991 , prompting Mr Sampson to warn the Tayside force not to be complacent in spite of a drive to target the most active criminals and make criminal intelligence more meaningful to beat bobbies . |
| 13 | ‘ Based on market research , we 're locating the new Wine Racks to target the more affluent , urban areas . |
| 14 | Work with oriented single crystals can give detailed information ; specialized texts ( see Ref. [ 7 ] , p. 63 ) should be consulted to enable the best use to be made of such experiments . |
| 15 | On the beat ( upwind leg ) the board is not sailed level as on all other points of sailing , but is deliberately heeled to enable the leeward rail to dig in and thus providing more lateral resistance . |
| 16 | There is little point in denying that if Britain is to enable the very old in the present as well as the future to live out their remaining years in dignity , more human and material resources will have to be devoted to their welfare . |
| 17 | Heavy going at Wigan The start was delayed for 25 minutes to enable the now inevitable lakecomers to find a vacant place . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) A change in the processes of teaching and learning is justified because it is believed to enable the more effective transmission and reception of the content of the curriculum ; i.e. we change process as instrumental in acquiring knowledge of content . |
| 19 | For these purposes they would also tend to wear the most heavily reinforced boots and might occasionally carry weapons of some kind . |
| 20 | If , like some sprinters , you are short and stocky and decide to wear the really skintight , knee-length shorts , it can be somewhat indecent . |
| 21 | The purpose of such an exercise is not so much to remove dirt ( mulm in a healthy filter is quite inert ) , so much as to restore the even filtering capacity of the media . |
| 22 | In some wooded areas which have developed in recent decades on open ground , such as abandoned heathlands , the opportunity is being taken to restore the now scarce and declining open habitat . |
| 23 | Although this has led some farmers to renounce the more extreme forms of continuous cropping , the new minimum cultivation methods ( described in Chapter 3 ) may allow a return to monoculture on suitable light soils . |
| 24 | Thus the dealers were forced to bluff the more , which amazingly , made them into more effective salesmen . |
| 25 | For the discussion of these categories it will be helpful to borrow the very clever metaphors with which Joseph Joachim , the famous 19th-century violinist , characterized the types of staccato as ‘ snow , ‘ rain ’ and ‘ hail ’ . |
| 26 | They will then see what the man or woman has got left in disposable income each week ; if it 's two pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two pounds , if it 's two hundred pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two hundred pounds to hit the better off in the same proportion as the people at the bottom of the income level . |
| 27 | The Mikulić government , which took office in May 1986 , was clearly influenced by such attitudes when it set out to curb the rapidly rising inflation of that year by it policy of ‘ programmed inflation ’ . |
| 28 | Lip-curling japes ensure as Newt firs tries to evict the compulsively fanciful Gwen , then agrees to go along with her charade , just to make his intended fiancée jealous . |
| 29 | There were roped walkways to channel the more energetic spectators round the course , with approved crossing-points on the fairways . |
| 30 | Williams also managed to induce the highly revered former cricketer , Learie Constantine , into becoming the chairman of the movement . |