Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry would often call his son in New York to tell him how much money the film was making in various cities , while Lillian phoned local LA cinemas to see how long the ticket queues were . |
| 2 | For senior posts it can be instructive to do the opposite to see how far the candidate can cope with the stress . |
| 3 | I think it enables the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that Councillors and Local Authorities have in actually trying to carry out the sort of things they want . |
| 4 | I think it enables young , the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that councillors have and local authorities have , in actually trying to carry out the sorts of things they want . |
| 5 | This brief discussion should also illustrate the point that we have , implicitly , adopted a very broad definition of industrialization , taking the term to include not simply the adoption of new techniques of production ( factories and corporations ) but also wider and related changes such as the development of industrially-based cities , migrations to these cities , the growth of bureaucracies and , perhaps , less tangible changes in values . |
| 6 | The experimenter then waits for a certain amount of time and repeats the experiment to see how well the rat has remembered what it has to do . |
| 7 | He also seems to this reviewer to accept too readily the authenticity of certain pieces ( most notably no. 27 , Imitator of Desiderio da Settignano , Virgin and Child ) , and a maddening feature is his habit of quoting inventory numbers rather than published sources for comparable pieces in other museums , which gives the impression that these comparanda have not been published . |
| 8 | Yes I think it 's fair to say at the moment that , that , that is being looked at Mr Trotter , together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for E F two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five , thirty years , whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be , taking account of er attrition , taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is , has been done , is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course . |
| 9 | Commentators noted that the leadership restructuring was likely in practice to curtail still further the role of both the politburo and central committee in influencing state policy ( already the politburo had effectively been supplanted by Gorbachev 's new Presidential Council — see pp. 37298-99 ) . |
| 10 | She was also mistaken in declaring her intention to fight on immediately the result of the first ballot was known . |
| 11 | When I come to paint , I like to look at the drawing ; then I put it away and do n't look at it again , because I do n't want even the drawing to influence too much the progress of the painting . |
| 12 | The School Development Plans Project ( SDPP ) broadens the basis of audit to include not only the aims and values of the school but also the policy and initiative of central government and the LEA . |
| 13 | If you are losing children do spend time with the dissatisfied parents to explore not just the event that has brought the situation to a head but dig deep for other areas of dissatisfaction , hostility or conflict . |
| 14 | This concerns the capacity to discern how far the content of a belief is positive as opposed to negative , and how far this promotes engagement with people rather than indifference to them or denial of them as persons . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend accept the need to harmonise not only the standards but the costs of meat inspection ? |
| 16 | We have stressed the need to set out explicitly the assumptions made about the information available to decision-makers . |
| 17 | The limitations of this view of the policy-making process will be explored , but first there is a need to identify more explicitly the institutions of government to which such an analysis must relate . |
| 18 | Similar rallies in many towns called on today 's crucial Community Party central committee meeting to give up immediately the party 's leading role in society and introduce multi-party democracy . |
| 19 | The criteria are the same as before , so the desire to pursue still further the questioning of the suspect may be enough to justify the court 's sanction for this additional detention . |
| 20 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 21 | Engagement personnel should have appropriate skills and competence to carry out properly the work for which they are responsible . |
| 22 | The news that developing economies , whose costs are low , are bigger than previously thought will cause some Americans and Europeans to fear still more the threat they pose to local output and jobs , and to demand higher trade barriers to check the intrusion of these nouveaux riches . |
| 23 | By mid-century , therefore , almost every European government was making efforts to control more effectively the recruitment and promotion of its diplomats . |
| 24 | tomorrow night Swindon have a chance to get even nearer the top of the table … they 're at home to Birmingham City … while Oxford are chasing a place in the next round of the cup … they 're at home to Swansea in a third round replay … |
| 25 | I urge my hon. Friend to examine more carefully the health arrangements in many European Community countries , because Britain is one of the few in which a patient may visit a general practitioner and receive hospital treatment free of charge . |
| 26 | Er , it 's something that will be welcomed by the trade union movement , a new forward , a new beginning to join once again the fruits of our labour with partnership with other unions and the Labour Party which was what we all need , but it must be done with careful planning and the brains at the top of the union must be telling the of the union , the members on the shop floor , the right direction in which to walk . |
| 27 | Modern psychology has been too taken with human drives and the abolition of guilt to take seriously enough the problem of evil in the world . |
| 28 | This would have the benefit of forcing the courts to articulate more openly the premises on which they are reasoning . |
| 29 | These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us . |
| 30 | Basic literacy , which was all that was aimed at , would allow the people to grasp more easily the intentions of the ruler and thus ensure their more effective cooperation in his policies . |