Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 2 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 3 | The building materials industry geared itself to meet the steady predictable demand of the house-building industry , thus eliminating one of the chief impediments to the output of houses . |
| 4 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 5 | the pack uses the KST ‘ size tolerant ’ system — although shoulder straps are actually sewn in place , their low take-off point on the back of the sack allows you to adjust the fit precisely , fine tuning with the top tension straps . |
| 6 | As we get older reality requires that the ideal and the self are reconciled ; ambitions are relaxed ; unrealistic goals are abandoned as time and opportunity compel us to change the idealized concept we have for ourselves . |
| 7 | Blind off the sub-base with a layer of coarse sand allowing it to fill the remaining holes . |
| 8 | The fact that he was such an emotional mess helped me to keep the necessary distance . |
| 9 | Marcia Pointon 's fascinating essay on the contemporary portrait leads us to question the central relationship between artist , sitter and spectator . |
| 10 | Clerical Medical has designed this Plan to help you to make the most of the profit from your savings over the next 10 years . |
| 11 | Your editorial on page one of the Summer 1991 issue prompted me to record the following thoughts which have a direct bearing on the subject of active participation . |
| 12 | He was never a precise golfer in the mould of Hogan , but his magnificent tactical management enabled him to calculate the exact odds in moments of high tension . |
| 13 | This column enables you to specify the unique names selected for the modules you wish to reserve . |
| 14 | This was part of a wider strategy throughout the public sector which was based on the simple ideological premise that the private sector had everything to teach the public sector and nothing to learn . |
| 15 | And what other sport enables you to do the miraculous , to walk on water ? |
| 16 | Most at risk is Venice , California , on Los Angeles 's Pacific shore , where the Venice in Peril organisation welcomes visitors ' support to help them to save the many cultural treasures , some of them almost 50 years old . |
| 17 | They reconstructed their Y6N17 compositions from averages of microprobe data and modal analyses of three groundmass minerals , including albite ( see figure ) , asserting that this technique allowed them to avoid the contaminating effects of xenoliths and secondary mineralization that pervade the sample . |
| 18 | just as a desire to understand absolute holism led us to analyse the substantive claims of Althusser and Poulantzas , so we must now consider work inspired by an attachment to concessive holism in order to reach a clearer view of its guiding interests . |
| 19 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |
| 20 | Her sexual frustration and jealousy leads her to destroy the hedonistic , deceitful Sapphire who otherwise would have become her sister-in-law . |
| 21 | Scott 's urgent pleas to the Prince Regent , the future King George IV , had resulted in a Royal Warrant permitting him to open the sealed Crown Room in search of the Scottish crown , sceptre and sword of state — the ancient Honours of Scotland , locked away since 1707 following the Treaty of Union . |
| 22 | Narrowing your focus helps you to achieve the best results . |
| 23 | But this account of achieving grace by the easy means of a self-chosen deprivation did nothing to mitigate the deeper shame ; some original wrong had been done and at home this was known . |
| 24 | And yet , so mechanical is this learning routine that if we interrupt such a bee while she is feeding she must take off and land again of her own accord , that landing permits her to choose the correct feeder colour on her next visit . |
| 25 | Photography via the microscope enables everyone to see the same view , and minute movements , e.g. phagocytosis of a bacterium by a white blood cell can be seen in motion and therefore be more easily remembered . |
| 26 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 27 | ‘ My wife wants me to take the early retirement , move away from Murmansk . |
| 28 | One day the King invited me to watch the regular entertainments , which are greatly enjoyed by him , his family , and his lords and ladies . |
| 29 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |
| 30 | Undoing the three screws at the back allows you to remove the sturdy metal lid and expose the innards . |