Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Describing himself as ‘ very wary of the concept of history ’ , Derrida has rather attempted to shift the problem away from the conceptual analysis of history as an ‘ Idea ’ which , perhaps more than anything else , has proved to be Hegel 's most enduring legacy , towards an analysis of the interstices in the implications of the general system in which it operates . |
| 2 | ( Fashanu has since attempted to visit the Yorkshire Ripper , Peter Sutcliffe , without success . ) |
| 3 | I mean talent has obviously got to head the list . |
| 4 | Labour policy has long sought to challenge the Treasury 's dominance in government . |
| 5 | Established to rekindle Anglo-Italian relations after the Heysel disaster , the tournament has only served to blacken the name of soccer . |
| 6 | The reintroduction of stamp duty in August , which is the equivalent of 20% of the deposit required for a 95% mortgage , has only served to aggravate the problem . |
| 7 | Since then the increase in warning time has merely served to reinforce the view . |
| 8 | On March 2nd 1872 , a letter came from the Mayor saying that the Corporation 's building would be ready in a few days and that they would be willing to receive patients under ‘ such arrangements as may be deemed best adapted to check the progress of the epidemic ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ But it is possible that she has just decided to leave the area . ’ |
| 10 | So imagine the confused looks on the faces of viewers in America , where the PBS network has just started to show the Yorkshire Dale 's soap for the first time . |
| 11 | A salesman from a components supplier has just offered to provide the firm 's requirements for two components , the BC100 at £7.75 each and the BC200 at £2.00 each . |
| 12 | That surprised everybody , since the administration has lately tried to talk the dollar down . |
| 13 | Clinton has already moved to strengthen the hand of environmental bodies by upgrading the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , giving it the status of a fully fledged department . |
| 14 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that he has already decided to refuse the trust application from the Royal Scottish National hospital at Larbert and to suspend the applications from Foresterhill and Ayrshire South hospitals , designating them as shadow trusts , whatever that means ? |
| 15 | As Haslemere has already begun to make the town accessible for wheelchair-bound people , would n't it be nice if the town could become totally accessible for both able bodied and disabled people . |
| 16 | ICL has already agreed to take the product , while Olivetti , Bull , DEC , NCR and others are evaluating it . |
| 17 | The shrewd Smailes has already agreed to buy the beers all night in the event of a half century being scored from this direction this summer , in one innings that is . |
| 18 | Intelsat has already had to stretch the lives of six older satellites over the Pacific Ocean and last summer repositioned a satellite over Indonesia to increase capacity . |
| 19 | The Directorate has already acted to meet the challenge posed by Compulsory Competitive Tendering . |
| 20 | Unfortunately you find that no-one has ever bothered to produce the graphics before because they take too long to print out on the current office printer ! |
| 21 | Generally speaking , there is evidence that the church has always tended to support the hegemony of the state qua state . |
| 22 | But generally speaking the ideal has always tended to accentuate the gap between the clerical world view and the lay world view within catholicism . |
| 23 | The teaching body in the university , so far as it has not joined ‘ The Thing ’ , has always preferred to accept the philosophy of ‘ The Thing ’ rather than reassert what it well knew was the requisite of any academic society . |
| 24 | The Government has always attempted to increase the choice in housing . |
| 25 | Taking over as she did at very short notice when our last Treasurer became ill , she has always managed to administer the Society 's finances in an extremely capable way despite the fact that the last six years has been a period of considerable change and economic difficulty . |
| 26 | Yet at least England can now hope in the future for better things from the bat of Lewis , who has always looked to have the ability to be a genuine all-rounder at Test level but until this match had scored just 483 runs from 15 Tests at an average of 24 . |
| 27 | In the past he has always refused to deny the relationship ‘ on the record ’ and Camilla has also maintained a dignified silence . |
| 28 | In a Soviet Union where getting a film developed is not a simple matter Aleksandras Macijauskas has still managed to document the people , and lifestyle , of his native Lithuania . |
| 29 | Each day starts with a programme of group exercises carefully planned to help the children to change position , starting from lying or sitting followed by individual and group standing and walking practice . |
| 30 | ‘ Yet the Labour Party has repeatedly refused to repudiate the TUC motion rejecting inward investment as alien . |