Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The hybrid equivalent circuit is especially suited to representing the small-signal amplifying behaviour of a bipolar junction transistor since its parameters are easily determined for the most useful common-emitter configuration by appropriate small-signal measurements .
2 But as Storr demonstrates with the aid of two stunningly beautiful passages from Churchill 's early novel Savrola , the pen was better suited to delineating the bleak impotence he felt at his innermost core .
3 Capital is a work almost entirely dedicated to understanding the fantastic nature of such concepts of labour , and to understanding what conditions this type of concept comes about .
4 For the asymmetric T-section shown in figure 9.14(a) , the two iterative impedances are given by and which readily rearrange into the quadratic equations and Thus Of the two solutions to each of the equations ( 9.68 ) , those having positive components of iterative resistance are appropriate and these normally correspond to taking the positive root in each case .
5 The government commission 's work was not limited to establishing the current state of affairs at the Gallery ; it was also entrusted with working out new proposals .
6 We will see how the development of Anglo-Saxon archaeology , in which the number of practitioners has always been relatively small , has engendered a conservative approach to the period which was not suited to answering the fundamental questions relating to human social evolution .
7 Of course we are not restricted to blurring the repeated median smooth .
8 But you always evaded this question , saying your allowance from home would not stretch to paying the extra rent .
9 Strangely , that modesty did not extend to sparing the Royal Family 's blushes over the serialization of Andrew Morton 's book about Princess Di and her marriage .
10 This duty does not extend to protecting the economic welfare of the employee by taking out insurance or warning them of the need for insurance cover .
11 The system of the citizens filling offices by random rotation , and of having the right to take part in the assembly , meant that Athens between , say 462 and 322 , came as near as any community ever has to achieving the democratic ideal of government by the people themselves , through citizen participation , rather than the modern substitutes of representation or even delegation .
12 Yet between 1933 and 1942 J. Arthur Rank put together a vertically-integrated film empire that was the nearest Britain ever came to emulating the great Hollywood studios .
13 No matter how hard she tries to give up , she still admits to smoking the occasional cigarette .
14 Apart from the contributions they both made to raising the general temperature along the international border in the months leading up to the Iraqi onslaught in September 1980 , the first blow appears to have been struck in the same month by Baghdad with a broadcast announcement of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.i The Iraqis had previously given a trial outing to a line of attack which underwent persistent repetition as the war proceeded .
15 The Liberals , like the Lib Dems today , sensed the possibility of a narrow majority and were , in the words of their leader , Jeremy Thorpe , ‘ unashamedly committed to breaking the two-party system ’ .
16 The company has also committed to supporting the distributed unit-of-work level of the specification .
17 The company has also committed to supporting the distributed unit-of-work level of the specification .
18 Despite openly admitting to owning the entire recorded works of Chicory Tip , Terry Wade ( 44 ) does not let his eccentricities interfere with his on-field performance ; despite his refusal to turn out on Eurovision Song Contest day .
19 John Smith was now committed to clobbering the poor by reversing their tax cut as soon as Labour got in .
20 The United Kingdom , of all the Western countries the most strongly committed to supporting the US-dominated multinational force , announced on Aug. 9 that air support would include a Tornado squadron and surface-to-air missiles for Saudi Arabia and a ground-attack Jaguar fighter squadron for Oman ; ground forces were not ruled out , but the initial response was limited to the commitment of the Royal Signals Corps in Riyadh .
21 Classification schemes specialize in showing networks of subjects and displaying the relationships between subjects , and thus are particularly suited to achieving the second objective .
22 I do n't seem to fed the same urge to wander that I used to . ’
23 The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel .
24 We are fully committed to maintaining the real value of child benefit .
25 ‘ The staff are fully committed to providing the best possible public service to the capital and will look to the new management in LAS and the inquiry to provide the basis for the most effective emergency service .
26 For on its 20-acre edge-of-town site , with neat new houses nudging its entrance just off a busy roundabout , the Botanic Centre is ambitiously committed to spreading the Green gospel .
27 The burden of analysis is consequently transferred to identifying the formal markers of topic-shift in discourse .
28 The meeting then turned to considering the various recommendations , firstly those to the Art department :
29 Can we then come to discussing the outstanding issue of H two .
30 This , it might seem , meant that the government was from that point firmly committed to controlling the monetary base rather than broader liquidity .
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