Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 2 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 3 | Not only that , but once the wharf had been modernized for the construction of Hinkley C , it was highly likely that it would be used again to take out the radioactive debris from the dismantling of Hinkley A. This had never been mentioned before . |
| 4 | But at any time she could be called out to back up the site 's regular fire crew . |
| 5 | And the remaining cash is to be set aside to clear up the old Blacketts brickworks off Alexander Street , Darlington , where residents have complained of fly tipping . |
| 6 | If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road ! |
| 7 | The television or radio should be kept on to drown out the sound . |