Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 2 | These , taken together with inferences drawn from what the rebels did , go some way to explaining why the revolt took place . |
| 3 | As a consequence there are , at present , serious obstacles to analysing directly the functional organization of the human brain . |
| 4 | Federal law was always superior to Länder law and the Länder were restricted in many areas to carrying out the policies of the Bonn government . |
| 5 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 6 | Indeed grazing rights could be an issue in themselves , and disputes over these probably made a major contribution to bringing about the Norfolk rebellion of 1549 ( 73 , pp.71 , 142–3 ) . |
| 7 | The priority for those of us who live along and use the north Kent line is that line itself , and the £1 billion saved on the project would go a devil of a long way to sorting out the line . |
| 8 | The government should be devoting more time to considering how the wartime counter-inflation policy could be continued in peacetime . |
| 9 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 10 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 11 | They never faced the situation realistically ; inflation got out of hand and contributed even more than the military inertia to bringing about the Nationalist downfall . |
| 12 | And the final year of the company 's three-year commitment to cleaning up the Alaskan coast is about to begin . |
| 13 | An added incentive to tracking down the railways is that they are invariably in rural France , away from the speeding motorway traffic . |