Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good separation is only achieved if the flask is heated slowly to allow time for the equilibria to become established . |
| 2 | However , Miller goes on to cast doubt on the status of such individualist explanations when he suggests that holist explanations are the stuff of social science , whereas individualist ones are something else . |
| 3 | Most of them will go : the communal celebration draws them , they need to gather together to bid farewell to the 1970s , they need to reinforce their own expectations by witnessing those of others , by observing who is in , who is out , who is up , who is down . |
| 4 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 5 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 6 | Silence quickly overtook him as memory tried just to keep pace with the tumbling images . |
| 7 | While western medicine has always tended to concentrate on the elimination of germs , the Unani doctors tried not to lose sight of the patient as a whole being ; they conceived of therapy in the original Greek sense of healing , at once taking into account physical , mental and spiritual well-being . |
| 8 | THE INDIAN government tried yesterday to deflect attention from the Bofors corruption scandal by linking one of the fiercest opposition critics of Rajiv Gandhi , the Prime Minister , with shady financial dealing . |
| 9 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 10 | A resolution of this issue , which is not a pressing matter , would need also to take account of the fact that speakers do , in practice , use sentences which could be taken as instances of a third possible equational type ( if this is not to be regarded as merely some kind of linguistic jeu d'esprit ) : ( 37 ) cautiously is the way we should proceed In both of these two cases , the question is whether a property concept can fill a position which would otherwise be reserved for an entity . |
| 11 | Presumably they were expected also to save money for the shipowners . |
| 12 | He left active political life for six months and then bounced back to become leader of the Labour Party . |
| 13 | Flooding Instructions , by Lothian Roadcare , have been issued to repairs being carried out to eliminate flooding at the Candy Box and to clean out drainage blocks in Baberton Avenue . |
| 14 | Flooding Instructions , by Lothian Roadcare , have been issued to repairs being carried out to eliminate flooding at the Candy Box and to clean out drainage blocks in Baberton Avenue . |
| 15 | Similar experiments were carried out to investigate discrimination in the housing market . |
| 16 | Twenty thousand perennial plants will bloom , including those in a display explaining how to use colour in the garden . |
| 17 | We do n't even know how to get water from the well . |
| 18 | If the Commonwealth War Commission do n't know how to get hold of the War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission can give us the information we want provided we can give them the christian name of the person and the regiment . |
| 19 | In each case the therapist should discuss how to make use of the open access facility . |
| 20 | As the royal troops moved forward to take possession of the battlefield , littered with discarded weapons and the dead and wounded , Cumberland despatched a messenger to HMS Gibraltar , in the Moray Firth , for biscuits and cheese , rum and brandy for his victorious but hungry troops . |
| 21 | The small factory she 'd approached to undertake the making of the curtains , cushions and loose covers told her they 'd be ready to start in a few weeks ' time , and even allowing for this wildly optimistic schedule , she felt she ought to know when to expect delivery of the fabrics . |
| 22 | The training , which has yet to take place in the UK in a formal way , will draw on what has been written on language techniques and the specific situation of the deaf community . |
| 23 | The much publicized working-class Conservative has yet to take command of the green leather benches . |
| 24 | Although Ashworth 's suggestion has been backed by a broad coalition of penal reform groups , and also by the Labour Party ( 1990 ) , it has yet to find favour with the judiciary , and was explicitly rejected by the government ( Home Office , 1990a : para. 2.20 ) . |
| 25 | But some are designed specifically to feature information about the social , cultural or professional life of the country . |
| 26 | Both parties agreed not to make peace without the other 's consent . |
| 27 | He told me I was turning into a jealous old queen but before he slammed the phone down he agreed not to tell Mother about the death . |
| 28 | Even France , the EC country that has done most to block progress on the Uruguay round , now at least seems willing to discuss specifics . |
| 29 | Once the pack is empty , another tap is turned on to send water to the rinsing nozzle inside the container . |
| 30 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |