Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Unfortunately , you obviously ca n't go and buy all the fish and throw them straight in , nor can you go and buy fully-grown specimens to fill the tank on this sort of budget . |
2 | Children with glaucoma at birth often have below normal vision and may need continued operations to keep the pressure at a safe level . |
3 | In September and November 1991 the new coalition New Front for Democracy and Development ( NF ) government had announced plans to reform the constitution to bar the army from involvement in party politics , and had stated that it would assist international efforts to investigate the army 's involvement in drug production and trafficking , money laundering and gun running [ see p. 38432 ] . |
4 | Many people will also need new aerials to receive the service . |
5 | Radicals from across London , Britain , and Europe began to pour into the college to observe , participate , or make unsuccessful attempts to take the struggle into the correct channels . |
6 | If interest is earned in a separate account from the cheque account I would expect automatic transfers to keep the cheque account at an agreed limit . |
7 | You wo n't be allowed to erect a headstone , have a name-plate or put flowers on a common grave , so is it any wonder that the whole thing smacks of the dreaded ‘ pauper 's burial ’ and that , however poor , people will make monumental sacrifices to raise the money somehow for the ‘ something better ’ that they feel they should provide ? |
8 | They may use hypodermic syringes to inject the drug into their bloodstream . |
9 | Social services departments may also be able to help you pay for work not covered by disabled facilities grants , and can also provide additional facilities to make the property safer , more comfortable and more convenient . |
10 | At least two of the centres are registered as charities , and can provide limited scholarships to offset the cost of tuition . |
11 | But they must also provide powerful facilities to reduce the proportion of total failures and to aid demanding and persistent users . |
12 | However , any suspicions as to the fate of British plutonium in the US will inevitably undermine international attempts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons . |
13 | Analysts suggested that the revenue from the ports would provide much-needed resources to reduce the country 's massive budget deficit . |
14 | Since the Chart is just a recursive , directed , labelled graph , we could use graph-based techniques to probe the extent of the search problem . |
15 | ‘ but essentially I said that we could use other solutions to expand the blood , but that they were not as effective as blood at transporting oxygen . |
16 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
17 | Equally the enunciation of statements C and D may enable certain individuals to dominate the group in the name of an ‘ imagined community ’ of race or class which they either claim or are made by others to represent . |
18 | It 's expected to discuss it 's future involvement , if any , in negotiations with the South African government on power sharing , if the government does n't take emphatic steps to stop the violence . |
19 | ‘ Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
20 | Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
21 | Since a GIS involves the storage , and manipulation of spatial data as well as the use of a graphical display system ( 2 or 3 dimensional data display ) it is feasible that the impression conveyed by the same data used in conjunction with a different display system might be distorted and might not permit future users to comprehend the meaning that it originally communicated . |
22 | The third proposal is that parents should have absolute rights to choose the school that their children should attend . |
23 | This service will identify those consumers experiencing payment difficulties and inform the lender , who can then take early steps to limit the extent to the problem . |
24 | It is therefore the one example found in the UK which follows Ansoff 's recommendation that organisations should maintain separate units to monitor the environment for ‘ weak signals of threats or opportunities for the organization to consider ’ [ Ansoff ( 1975 ) ] . |
25 | If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals . |
26 | We must have dummy runs to confuse the intelligence systems of the professional robbers . |
27 | Unfortunately we do not yet have good methods to control the quantity of protein produced , and overproduction could adversely affect normal tissue . |
28 | On April 16 the United States government called on both countries to " take immediate steps to reduce the tension " . |
29 | The report estimated that 75 per cent of local authorities would have insufficient resources to implement the government 's community care proposals . |
30 | The treaty included ( i ) a promise to work " to create a Europe in which human rights … are respected " ; ( ii ) German support for Hungarian membership of the European Communities ( EC ) " as soon as the political and economic prerequisites are fulfilled " ; ( iii ) German support for the development of a social market economy in Hungary ; and ( iv ) a Hungarian undertaking to " take concrete steps to promote the protection and strengthening of the identity of the German minority " in Hungary . |