Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern science of militarism renders wars between ‘ civilised ’ Powers too costly , and the rapid growth of effective internationalism in the financial and great industrial magnates [ sic ] , who seem destined more and more to control national politics , may in future render such wars impossible . |
| 2 | Having thus grasped the important principle that kinship terms reflect social usage , Morgan was able to go further and indeed to anticipate later research in his perceptive assessment of the social advantages of the classificatory system . |
| 3 | And it is a growth industry because its products , such as plastics , are being used more and more to replace raw materials such as wood , steel or natural fibres . |
| 4 | As the world population grows , our limited resources , particularly of land , will have to be used efficiently and frugally to achieve this paramount aim . |
| 5 | In Switzerland the drug is used legally and openly to treat psychological disorders , especially depression . |
| 6 | If the Government 's record of managing the public services has been indifferent , the Tories and the Tories alone have acted bravely and imaginatively to achieve better public services by the only credible means — managing resources through private sector standards and disciplines . |
| 7 | As with other addictions , compulsive gambling and risk taking are seen when the sufferer is compelled to return despite repeated and increasing negative consequences and when the processes is used inappropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood . |
| 8 | Yes , any behaviour that is used inappropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions , or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood , or to which someone repeatedly returns despite negative consequences , can be a form of addictive disease . |
| 9 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 10 | Taking the germ of an idea from the exotic blend of shapes and colours and textures she 'd absorbed during their day out , she worked slowly and painstakingly to create several tiny , intricate designs . |
| 11 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 12 | A system that connects a single vendor 's range of products — and which can be adapted more or less to handle other vendors ' offerings . |
| 13 | ‘ It is the fault of C1 that you do n't have today or tomorrow to get straight . |
| 14 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |
| 15 | Hot sport , heavy drink , the aphrodisiac of leisure and the compulsion to press into the very gut of pleasure combined now and then to threaten choppy waters , even a storm . |
| 16 | There was usually a good deal of flexibility in the organisation of these political departments : their number and scope altered easily and often to meet changing demands . |
| 17 | Family and proprietary considerations still loomed so large that the Kaiser could in 1891 give orders for a mobilization to be carried out if his mother was insulted in Paris , yet it was also an age in which monarchs had more and more to personify national and even democratic causes . |
| 18 | Affronted , Grunte urged the driver onwards , and determined there and then to abandon any idea of making a formal speech and to encourage questions from the girls instead . |
| 19 | We 've got a two hundred and thirty million pound gap to make up and just to put this into some sort of context , the fares will give us slightly less than fifty million . |