Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE final of this year 's Essex Senior Trophy , to be staged at Chelmsford City , Harwich & Parkeston hope to repeat the 1990 triumph over Tiptree , against Southend Manor . |
| 2 | A hypothetical situation or story used to illustrate the typical occurrence of a structural pattern . |
| 3 | The destruction of bridges across the Euphrates and Tigris rivers , together with the " extraordinary movement " of the XVIII Corps , he said , meant that " the door was shut " for any Iraqi armour or artillery attempting to leave the Kuwaiti theatre of operations . |
| 4 | I hope that by now you can begin to appreciate the delicacy of discrimination and the moral fervour which I have sought to bring to my work and that you will hold these qualities in your mind when the grossness , vulgarity and immorality of gossip or criticism begins to corrode the lucid purity of my text . |
| 5 | There is a clear need for any judge or court intending to exercise the wasted costs jurisdiction to formulate carefully and concisely the complaint and grounds upon which such an order may be sought . |
| 6 | Damp , fragrant veils that made a cool tent around the central space of heat where Rose began to ply the heavy iron . |
| 7 | Like Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) , she emphasizes the need for top executives to establish a few clear signals in order to create a felt need for change , and to use ‘ prime movers ’ in the organization both to ‘ talk up ’ the new strategy and to ensure that the signals or symbols developed to establish the new direction are present in all important interactions — i.e. reflected in reports , agenda for meetings , key events , and so on . |
| 8 | None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power . |
| 9 | To enforce conformity to the new orthodoxy , the Spaniards instituted ecclesiastical visitas , or inspections intended to extirpate the idolatory that persisted long after the conquest . |
| 10 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 11 | The fact that urban areas were hit early and particularly hard by this loss is then explained by conditions which operate within this broader context : for example , that cities tended to have the older and thus often less profitable parts of individual industries ; or that they suffered from decentralization to cheaper and less organized workers . |
| 12 | It might have been expected that strategies aimed to change the stressful circumstances themselves would be an important feature of the coping responses they uncovered . |
| 13 | This provides evidence that readers try to determine the syntactic role of ‘ entered ’ while fixating it . |
| 14 | We have studied the Labour party 's recent pronouncements and we now know that Labour proposes to renegotiate the whole deal . |
| 15 | Is that what the Prime Minister means when he says that he believes that Conservatives want to use the national health service ? |
| 16 | The problem with consultancy was that companies liked to use the eminent , to whom they were prepared to pay high fees ; getting started was very difficult . |
| 17 | ‘ Why is it that pansies seem to run the best restaurants ? ’ |
| 18 | It is essential for our own peace and security that Russia continues to play the positive role on which President Gorbachev embarked and which President Yeltsin is set to continue and to develop . |
| 19 | The only major difference between such accounts and pluralist accounts is that pluralists tend to describe the specific political pressures without attempting to relate them to broader theories of the relationship between state , society and economy . |
| 20 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 21 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 22 | Both of these measures were intended to ensure that banks continued to regard the traditional discount market as an important outlet for surplus funds and source of liquidity in the event of shortage . |
| 23 | And , on the other hand , that there is a tremendous amount that needs doing to make the formal , publicly available information resource more understandable in its structure , and accessible in its details . |
| 24 | As is the case with almost all fish diseases , it is when situations of poor water quality , inefficient filtration/aeration and overcrowding exist that conditions serve to weaken the immune defence of the host fish , allowing rapid multiplication of the parasite . |
| 25 | Yet the fact that no Carolingian contender was a casualty meant that Fontenoy failed to resolve the central problem of the imperial succession . |
| 26 | We hope that people trying to read the shell-growth record will now be aware that part of it may have been erased . |
| 27 | ‘ The only way we can know that people want to see the Fun Factory becoming a success is if they vote with their feet and come to a meeting to show their support . ’ |
| 28 | Creating an image , in this sense , is an external systematizing activity ; which is not to say that Zuwaya failed to recognize the finished product or failed to enjoy it . |
| 29 | I asked him to desist not from his prayers but from his actions because I felt sure that God wanted to prepare the Anglican priest for his death . |
| 30 | This may be what lies behind Bede 's statement that Cadwallon intended to destroy the whole nation ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |