Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 2 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 3 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 4 | I think you 've come to really the wrong committee to try and get money . |
| 5 | The simple and almost revolutionary message of Francis had the fortune to reach the ears and attention of a pope of spiritual vision who , while not able to fill that role himself , recognized the strength and power that might be harnessed to both the papal curia and the Church as a whole . |
| 6 | More traditional error correcting techniques can be used as a last resort , and if they are applied to just the top-rated candidate string this should avoid the potentially explosive problem . |
| 7 | The new piece should be thoroughly dried , and tailored to approximately the right shape and size . |
| 8 | In the pyramid of control , according to both the formal theory and the practical application of it in organizational design , authority would reside in individuals by virtue of their incumbency in office and/or their expertise . |
| 9 | The hope cherished by the NIH team is that recombinant vaccinia viruses may be used to combat hepatitis B virus in Africa and Asia according to exactly the same strategy that succeeded so brilliantly with smallpox . |
| 10 | I have written to both the Prime Minister and the Sports Minister because I wonder if my civil liberties have been infringed . |
| 11 | There is widespread geographical variation — provision is much stronger in the North-West and the East Midlands for example , compared with the South and South-East — and the number in higher education has not expanded to nearly the same extent . |
| 12 | But … perhaps you do not know — how could you ? — what cannon and mangonels can do to even the stoutest walling . |
| 13 | ‘ If Cllr Murphy is aware of any specific incidence of malpractice or wrongdoing , he should detail the same in writing to either the chief executive or the independent consultants appointed to look into this matter , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Referrals were made to either the local Drug Detoxification Unit or the Regional Drug Dependency Unit . |
| 15 | On the other hand , such bodies are , of course , acting to further the public interest , and it has not always proved easy to strike the right balance between independence and public accountability . |
| 16 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 17 | The new Association is best seen not so much as a pressure group founded to further the professional interests of teachers of English , but rather as a class-based mobilization which drew in not only most professors of English Language and Literature , but also like-minded politicians , administrators , and " men of letters " . |
| 18 | We denote all the terms in the square bracket as A s , which are the same for every unit cell , and sum all the scattered waves illuminated by the incident plane wave within the probe coherence area , containing N 2 unit cells , to give The first two summations are the structure factor , which amount to constant coefficients in the LEED I-V spectra , leading to Thus the main effect of long-range order , as distinct from short-range order , is to produce intensity at Bragg beam positions ; it does not influence the I-V dependence at a given Bragg beam position . |
| 19 | Railwaymen were going to object to funds being used to further the political careers of such men . |
| 20 | If this seems unlikely , it is recorded that , in January and February 1887 , a Croatian minstrel recited from memory a series of lays amounting to twice the combined length of the Iliad and the Odyssey ( Thomson 1949 , p. 529 ) . |
| 21 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
| 22 | a standard format ensures that each site responds to precisely the same questions ; |
| 23 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 24 | What is more , careful examination of its proportions has revealed that it belonged to precisely the same species of cat that was later domesticated in Egypt . |
| 25 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 26 | The unique descriptive name by which the media unit will be known to both the Offline Manager and Offline Operator . |
| 27 | Portsmouth were restricted to just the odd chance — Lee Chapman almost sneaking a third . |
| 28 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 29 | Maintenance : I run a two-week rota with 20% of the water being changed for rainwater and boiled tap water , brought to roughly the same temperature as that within the aquariums . |
| 30 | You can never leave children playing with water unattended whether it 's in the bath or outside in the garden — and that applies to even the smallest amounts . |