Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of blaming one partner we should drum home the essential message that parents have equal responsibilities . |
| 2 | Management must always consider both the short- term and longer-term consequences of their actions . |
| 3 | A ‘ block ’ type connector may be fitted to the board and pad spacing will suit either the older Futabase or SLM sockets or the latest 3-pin headers . |
| 4 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 5 | Whenever universities hand out degrees on the basis of who will bring in the best publicity and therefore the biggest cheques , they dishonour their own honours system . |
| 6 | They will give in the confident expectation that their gift will be well received . |
| 7 | LABOUR MP Dennis Skinner believes three things will bring down the Royal Family and turn Britain into a republic — tax , television and history . |
| 8 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 9 | Disability Living Allowance will bring together the existing Attendance and Mobility Allowance , providing new help to many disabled people who at present get no such help . |
| 10 | These examples should bring home the great difference that there is for Moore between intrinsic good and bad and anything of the nature of pleasure or pain . |
| 11 | Even if , to the youth , ‘ living was more important than education ’ , engaging in competitive sport can bring home the new realization that achieving results in education can be important to living . |
| 12 | ‘ The deal will benefit both the cricketing public and the Benson and Hedges competition , with more matches covered live and viewers enjoying a wider choice during peak hours . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The deal will benefit both the cricketing public and the Benson and Hedges competition , with more matches covered live and viewers enjoying a wider choice during peak hours . ’ |
| 14 | You can either invest both the original sum and interest for another fixed term . |
| 15 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 16 | After years of regular waxing , the hair follicles may give up the unequal struggle and not grow back . |
| 17 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 18 | In any event oxygen-breathing organisms could soak up the excess gas as soon as it was produced . |
| 19 | If these enhancements and/or modifications are recognized to be universally applicable , will carry out the necessary work and will bear the cost of this . |
| 20 | The Offline Operator should then carry out the Offline Cycle as specified by LIFESPAN on the screen . |
| 21 | Very often one individual with only a small time commitment can carry out the initial investigation and appraisal aspects of a project , but once the scheme is under way the resource level may have to be increased in order to cater for the client 's time-scale . |
| 22 | This is an over-simple account , but it does bring out the essential point that , at some stage , substances have to be transported across a membrane against a concentration gradient . |
| 23 | Work out what you want to know , write down the approximate question you think will bring out the right answer and then in a third column put a percentage to represent how much the answer equates with what you would like to hear . |
| 24 | It must for example , ensure an independent judiciary , provide health and education services , basic infrastructure and maintenance and it must bring about the economic environment that allows the private sector to create jobs and growth . |
| 25 | There are others who can see only the broad view and the general thrust of an operation . |
| 26 | WATERLOO are hoping that Mike Hayton will provide just the right treatment when they bid to reach the last 32 of the Pilkington Cup by winning at Lichfield tomorrow . |
| 27 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 28 | However , Wanderers are true amateurs on the field and will no doubt battle until they give up , so let's hope Athletico can keep up the good work and send them home with three lost points and the Samaritans ’ telephone number . |
| 29 | You can work out the final design and then work backwards to how it must be knitted , usually in slip , one colour at a time , to achieve the design . |
| 30 | Only in her anger could she drown out the dark shadow that pity and guilt had cast over her . |