Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 2 | Problems are categorized in elaborate ways and rules devised to determine how the organization should respond to the arrival of any new problem falling into one or another of the existing categories . |
| 3 | The authorities sought to break down the mystique surrounding him , and to present him as a common criminal , parading him before 300 journalists on Sept. 24 in an iron cage erected on the patio of the Lima police headquarters . |
| 4 | Thus Trematon fell , its womenfolk were ‘ … stripped of their apparel to their very smocks and their fingers broken to pluck away the rings ’ . |
| 5 | In their private lives , many of the repealers sought to live out the ideal of companionate marriage . |
| 6 | In the first part of this project , the researchers intend to investigate how the choice of estimation method affects statistics used to test assumptions about such models . |
| 7 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 8 | Several banks operate special accounts designed to smooth out the impact of these unavoidable and important bills , many of which arise quarterly . |
| 9 | Manufacturers tend to state only the input wattage especially on mains powered tools , but it is the power at the cutting edge that counts . |
| 10 | The discovery was painful , and his heavy-lidded eyes narrowed to shut out the picture she made with them . |
| 11 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 12 | This , I think sums up the Kitchens rather neatly — they 're not much like corporate-trousered rock stars , but they 're hardly the Manic Street Preachers attempting to bring down the system from within either . |
| 13 | Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain . |
| 14 | In contrast to the 12 months taken to draw up the amendments , he allowed a mere six weeks for the councils and people of the Borders to comprehend , communicate and respond to them . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the British warships had to ride out the monsoon . |
| 16 | The full extent of the pollution was , however , less than had initially been feared , with gale force winds helping to break up the 40km long slick . |
| 17 | The factions agreed to boost significantly the powers of Prince Sihanouk within the SNC . |
| 18 | The defendants applied to strike out the statement of claim of the local authority on a preliminary issue on the grounds that the authority could not maintain an action in libel for words which reflected on it in relation to its governmental and administrative functions and that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action . |
| 19 | The report concluded that : ‘ Most of the advantages appear to benefit directly the builder or developer , whereas the consumer is left with a dwelling which must have some inherent risks , however small . ’ |
| 20 | But it was one of my self-imposed duties to try to even out the peaks and troughs of his capricious temperament and make sure he produced his best golf when it mattered . |
| 21 | Companies wanting to try out the cards can buy an application test kit for $1,800 . |
| 22 | Finally , do n't forget the value of such structural objects as walls , containers , raised beds or even large boulders sited to set off the plants . |
| 23 | Countries with suitable slalom sites but no suitable WWR courses would then be able to host events and smaller countries prepared to take on the WWR event but not the larger slalom event would be able to make contributions . |
| 24 | Although some schools were quick off the mark to evacuate their children , it was not until May 1940 when the German Wehrmacht overran Holland , Belgium and struck deep into northern France that schools in danger areas began to take seriously the need for evacuation . |
| 25 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 26 | Cunningham ( 1982 ) reports that if parents decide to give up the baby permanently , it is ‘ for the parents who make it , the right decision , . |
| 27 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 28 | In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services . |
| 29 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 30 | Declining profit shares and falling output-capital ratios combined to push down the rate of profit ( figures 11.6 and 11.7 ) . |