Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun sg] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , and some would say it is quite a big if , other policies can be used to get the right balance of activities in the economy , we can confine our attention to the narrower questions : are firms more likely to attain the lowest possible cost curve in the public or the private sector ? |
| 2 | Royal Mail spokesman Adam Novak said : ‘ The twin town award scheme is just one way in which we can demonstrate our commitment to the European single market by recognising the extensive contribution twin towns all over the UK have made in furthering the development of international communications . ’ |
| 3 | The Oak said , ‘ But we have lent our aid to the Royal Houses of the Beastline in times of extreme danger and we have also fought to regain Tara for the rightful heir . ’ |
| 4 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 5 | Congress as we all know , the failed economic policies of the government has pushed our nation to the very edge of bankruptcy . |
| 6 | We extend our sympathy to the remaining members of her family . |
| 7 | Languages and their histories are invaluable resources for feminists analysing the workings of patriarchal societies , and in the last twenty years feminists have drawn our attention to the sexist implications of usage in many languages . |
| 8 | Paul Devereux has drawn our attention to the Irish nature mystic , George William Russell ( who wrote under the pseudonym AE ) . |
| 9 | ‘ You have shown our hand to the other side by saying we have no chance . |
| 10 | Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa . |
| 11 | In chapter 2 we turned our attention to the various types of bonding between atoms , ions and molecules and saw how the bonding related to the structure and properties of matter . |
| 12 | It does n't , but we were n't going to let our opposition to the territorial claim prevent us from talking . ’ |
| 13 | In this section , we shall shift our attention to the two remaining strata of our model , the middle and working classes . |
| 14 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 15 | The Arnoldian tradition relates art firmly to being in all its existential , moral and aesthetic modalities , but in so doing perhaps diminishes our awareness of the unique properties of the arts as arts ; conversely , while the continental schools in various ways direct our attention to the formal or technical properties of the arts ( even when contesting them ) , they perhaps risk losing the human frame of reference . |
| 16 | And since it looks as if we 're all goin' to the same place , why do n't we take our kit to the left luggage then see if we ca n't find that canteen ? ’ |
| 17 | Sad-Core may have reduced our status to the sick man of Europe amidst the flourishing electronic dance scenes in Germany , Belgium and Holland , but some excavation reveals an underground whose shockwaves get bigger every day . |
| 18 | ‘ The publicity which rightly has surrounded this situation may have one good effect ; it draws our attention to the awful consequences of unemployment and business failures in our society ; and it reminds us of our genuine responsibilities towards the individuals and families damaged by this ; we must have care for our brothers and sisters in need . |
| 19 | In ‘ Kubla Khan ’ Coleridge draws our attention to the latter through his use of masculine and feminine imagery , in the ‘ walls and towers ’ which were ‘ girdled ’ round the area of ‘ fertile ground ’ . |
| 20 | Bob Dickinson draws our attention to the sensitive placing of such paintings in relation to points of resonance in the caves of Ariège in the French Pyrenees . |
| 21 | But with the introduction of this new and quite different element we , as it were , at last cast aside the painter that tied our boat to the safe bank of blueprint detective fiction . |
| 22 | WHILE this approach undoubtedly has advantages in that effort is directed to areas where a known interest exists — TO my way of thinking it fails to stimulate growth sufficiently quickly to satisfy what I consider SHOULD be a market led approach , nor does it satisfactorily communicate our case to the potential customers . |
| 23 | Once we have finalised our response to the Welsh Office , I think it would be very useful if we could meet you to explore shared interests and clarify how best we can work together on this issue . |
| 24 | ‘ Players like myself and skipper Alan McDonald can play our part by lending our experience to the young players coming through to form the next World Cup side . |
| 25 | To examine proposition 4 in greater detail , we turn our attention to the expectations-augmented Phillips curve . |
| 26 | We now turn our attention to the second aspect of the interactional organization of messages : information structure . |
| 27 | If we now turn our attention to the second type of conflict enumerated by Freud , that between the ego and the superego , we have already noticed that the externalization of the superego , particularly of its archaic and providential aspects , is easily possible and seemingly well under way in many societies . |
| 28 | We now turn our attention to the third kind of operator in the UK financial system — the financial markets . |
| 29 | We now turn our attention to the accompanying wind chords . |
| 30 | We grope our way to the back door and up the stairs , lit by a single spluttering candle and tumble drunkenly into bed . |