Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kiwi coach has done very well to help the game reach communist China ( see July issue of RW&P , pages 56 and 57 ) where there are hopes that rugby might be introduced to the Chinese armed forces . |
| 2 | The RSPCA hopes it has acted quickly enough to prevent the abuse of this new type of farm animal . |
| 3 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 4 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 5 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 6 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 7 | " You 've done very well to get the thing cleared up so quickly , " I said . |
| 8 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 9 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 10 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 11 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 12 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 13 | Finubar 's reign was marred only by the great Chaos Incursion when it looked as if the Dark Powers had returned once more to claim the world . |
| 14 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 15 | X-rays can detect only big tumours , and bronchoscopes — flexible fibre-optic cables which relay pictures from the inside of the lungs to the outside world — only see those that have spread far enough to wrinkle the lining of the lung . |