Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 2 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 3 | Or simply a game to pass the time and add spice to the voyage ? |
| 4 | And so the way to counteract the disease was to rid the body of its ill-balanced humours by means of blood-letting , laxatives or emetics — the three standard methods by which patients were hastened to an early death . |
| 5 | when when you do that , and obviously the need to gauge the erm presentation against audience contact to see that they 're involved and they 're obviously understanding what you 're saying and pick them up and grab them . |
| 6 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |
| 7 | It is indeed a middling grand house , in red brick with three storeys of segment-headed windows characteristic of the early Georgian , and just the shape to frame the passionate , scarred face of Rosa Dartle , destroying herself with unrequited love for the seducer Steerforth . |
| 8 | It was partly a public relations effort , and partly an effort to get the voice of the dealers heard . |
| 9 | AD 600 onwards may reflect a growing demand for luxury goods and the scale of such transactions , and also the need to regularise the transactions . |
| 10 | Again , this view is related to Pius XI 's , as expressed in Divini Illius Magistri : ‘ The family holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the rights to educate the offspring , a right inalienable because inseparably joined to the strict obligation , a right anterior to any right whatever of civil society and of the State … ’ ( 1929 : 14 ) . |
| 11 | And now the moment to release the eggs has arrived . |
| 12 | He needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he 'd collected on his travelsand decided to build a gothic tower complete with mullioned arched and trefoil windows … crenellated battlements at the top and even a gargoyle to complete the effect . |
| 13 | It represented an open-ended public expenditure commitment with no way of imposing cash limits on the amount spent on prescribing and seemingly no way to check the number of people GPs referred to hospital . |
| 14 | For example , search software offers the types of facilities discussed in Chapter 17 , including the ability to search on words in pre-determined fields , the ability to search on word stems and to search on words with variant spellings , and then the ability to rank the retrieved material according to its relative significance . |
| 15 | The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . |
| 16 | The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . |
| 17 | And people can just buy favours and then the instructions to make the favours are on the reverse side . |
| 18 | In the event , John Conteh dropped down a division and Johnson took his place , proving the legitimacy of his claim by beating two contenders and then the champion to become the first black heavyweight champion of Great Britain . |
| 19 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 20 | There are many medical treatments for incontinence , which include medicines , exercises , ‘ retraining ’ the bladder and occasionally an operation to repair the bladder . |
| 21 | Observers noted that Kravchuk 's offer , and specifically the offer to settle the ethnic Germans [ for whose status see below ] , could be seen as a snub to the Russian Republic , whose hesitancy in creating a Volga republic for the deported German population had been a topic of discussion in the Russian Foreign Minister 's recent visit to Bonn [ see also p. 38730 ] . |
| 22 | It is thus a defence to show that the reason for the alleged act of discrimination was not the plaintiff 's disability but rather an inability to perform the work in question . |
| 23 | Simon was not trying to buy the Holy Spirit but rather the ability to impart the Holy Spirit . |
| 24 | There , as we shall see , the judges wriggled furiously to avoid applying the principles outlined above in order to restrain the press from revealing the very serious iniquities disclosed by Mr Peter Wright , which included not only the bugging of embassies but also a conspiracy to assassinate the Egyptian President . |
| 25 | The specialized frugivore is typically a larger bird than the unspecialized one and may have a very wide gape , but also the capacity to strip the seed and regurgitate the ballast rather rapidly , while the fruit itself must be available all the year round . |
| 26 | ‘ We have offered him the chance of coming here as chief executive — but also the opportunity to buy the club . |
| 27 | Often , indeed , he has not only the right but also the duty to make the disclosure , as of a felony , to the competent authorities . |
| 28 | Concepts such as ’ semantically correct ’ and ’ semantically incorrect ’ remain somewhat contentious , and in practice are inessential to the text recognition problem : the measure of success is not found in adherence to some formal semantic proof but simply the ability to choose the same word as a human observer would . |
| 29 | But almost every attempt to move the fish has panicked them , including this one , into swallowing their eggs . |
| 30 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |