Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heat is nothing more than energy of atoms in motion , so if you can slow down atoms , you are in effect cooling them . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the blast from a cruise missile would knock down houses several kilometres away and kill people up to 6 km away . |
| 3 | Here , the Metropolitan police are planning to feed all genetic records of known sex offenders into their computers next year — this will speed up considerably the time in which they can track down attackers . |
| 4 | There will also be a pensions ombudsman and a tracing service to help people track down pensions held with previous employers , he told Mr Gerrard Neale ( C. Cornwall N ) in a written reply . |
| 5 | Among the package of proposals meant to safeguard members of company pension schemes , Mr Newton plans to have a tracing service based on a register of pension schemes to help people track down pensions held with their previous employers . |
| 6 | That would help us track down details from the relevant auctioneers . |
| 7 | In this case , Sheila might not agree to Mark 's removal , but she might compromise over periods of respite care with his grandmother , which would satisfy the paediatrician 's concerns . |
| 8 | However , one set of mappings may predominate over others , thus producing a bias in the availability or accessibility of plural or singular referents . |
| 9 | The interpretation of his objective through committees , in which he could win over doubters , was to him a central part of the chairman 's task . |
| 10 | For instance , in Slemmadenia donnellsmithii ( Apocynaceae ) , spider-monkeys may excel over parrots and other birds in this respect in Guatemala . |
| 11 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 12 | If there are small children in the equation , there will need to be a flat , soft area where they can fall off swings and climbing frames . |
| 13 | ‘ You ought to know , ’ Anna said more gently , ‘ you ought to know by now that things you want do n't just fall off trees . |
| 14 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 15 | Russia 's freeing of prices had caused controversy with other CIS member states , which were effectively compelled to follow suit , since Russian consumers would otherwise simply buy up goods at controlled prices from neighbouring republics . |
| 16 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 17 | ‘ Christ , let's pack up chaps . ’ |
| 18 | But she could reel out pages of verbal textbook at the mention of any subject . |
| 19 | ‘ I heard a tale that he and a couple of friends used to meet and act out stories . ’ |
| 20 | £9.4 million will be contributed over three years to help phase out CFCs in developing countries and energy efficiency initiatives will also receive support . |
| 21 | I 'll format out ones to the next two decimals , range formats , I 'll make that unprotected cell the range protects . |
| 22 | Not that Airdrie 's football is the sort that would pack out stadia on a regular basis — the bulk of the near-40,000 who went along to Ibrox on Saturday were there to see ritual slaughter — but in the context of this confrontation with the glitzy Rangers , the Broomfield side 's special brand of grim resistance was undeniably compelling . |
| 23 | Try using fine sea salt as a scrub — this will help dry out blemishes naturally because it 's slightly antiseptic . |
| 24 | This was due to the fact that Wilkinson had invented a boring mill in 1774 which could bore out cannons to very fine limits . |
| 25 | Like most managers , I do n't seek out groups , even at showcases . |
| 26 | The implications of these points are that wider markets are not as familiar to suppliers as local markets , and they must therefore seek out sources of information about distant markets . |
| 27 | He also stressed that NATO must " seek out areas of complementarity with the other bodies within which the allies find themselves together in Europe " , notably the European Communities ( EC ) and the CSCE , to which he accorded particular importance as " the only place where all European countries can meet " . |
| 28 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 29 | Sadistic people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others and may seek out situations in which they can inflict this . |
| 30 | Lending to the government is more or less risk-free ( in stable countries ) and there is no reason why investors , or banks , should seek out risks . |