Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 2 | It should be robust enough to stand up to the most rigorous testing from the appraisal panel . |
| 3 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 4 | The German Siemens was in a stronger position in several ways ; in addition to its computer and telecommunications equipment strengths , Siemens in the late 1980S was attempting to catch up with the vertically integrated Japanese electronics companies ; it was making a major chip effort , with use by the German car industry especially in mind . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |
| 6 | The early campaigns seem to continue through to the very different style used today . |
| 7 | But it will be harder to crack down on the really powerful and harmful culprits in the shadow economy — the state bureaucrats who use their privileged access to goods heavily subsidized by the state to make fat profits for themselves . |
| 8 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 9 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 10 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 11 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 12 | It was clear that he made her life happier than it had been , but she still had to put up with the desperately uncomfortable conditions and go out on her terrifying foraging expeditions . |
| 13 | They simply churned out dozens of reprints and impressions in a very short space of time to keep up with the ever growing demand by the Wallace clamouring public . |
| 14 | With a choice of simple current/deposit account facilities , fixed deposit accounts , or managed currency funds and a highly personalised level of private banking , you may need to shop around for the most suitable . |
| 15 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 16 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 17 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 18 | The trade of elephant catching and training is likely to die out in the very near future . |
| 19 | Certain men have been trying to get in on the politically correct act for a while . |
| 20 | Could always be relied upon to break down on the most dangerous stretch of the motorway . |
| 21 | But when we were young , she and I used to get up to the most dreadful pranks . ’ |
| 22 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 23 | He backed out of Nisodemus 's presence and was glad to get out into the bitingly cold air . |
| 24 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
| 25 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
| 26 | As churches we feel an obligation to speak up for the least privileged in our society , for those who live in the areas of highest unemployment , poorest housing and social disintegration . |
| 27 | If a factory chimney dumps smoke on a thousand gardens nearby it may be very expensive to collect 1 from each household to bribe the factory to cut back to the socially efficient amount . |
| 28 | Ace snapped savagely , causing Benny to step back from the unexpectedly vicious tone in her voice . |