Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | East Germans expect it to scrap the security police wing while shifting its intelligence work to the interior ministry or a new agency . |
2 | For instance , the Pacific islanders use them to decorate the prows of their canoes and Malaysian fishermen attach cowries to their nets . |
3 | How far , then , does our knowledge of how genes code for proteins enable us to explain the shapes of organisms ? |
4 | Many , but sadly not all , camcorders enable you to monitor the sound in the field via an earpiece which is plugged into a socket provided specially for this purpose . |
5 | ‘ I hear you 've gotten so good at it , your parents want you to photograph the christening … ’ |
6 | Hurstdown 's Benedictine origins encourage us to emphasize the language of Catholicism at the expense of that of Orthodoxy . |
7 | Historical circumstances allow us to trace the change from archaic to classical most clearly in Athens , but other cities — Argos , Sicyon , Aegina — figure largely in the literary sources for this period , especially for their artists in bronze , and it is likely that these were prominent in the revolution . |
8 | Some models allow you to lock the blade at a particular angle to the saw body . |
9 | ‘ No politician likes leaving an election campaign in full swing , but Britain 's farmers and fishermen expect me to do the job I was appointed for and I am not prepared to take the risk of measures hostile to the UK getting through because I am not there , ’ said Mr Curry , who is defending a 17,000 Conservative majority . |
10 | Such abstract typologies help us to understand the behaviour of councillors as a group but they do not necessarily apply to individual councillors who may exhibit characteristics drawn from several of the main types . |
11 | The Gift Of Song is being released on June 7 , the start of National Housing Week , and organisers expect it to top the compilation album charts . |
12 | Interest rate : Where spreadsheet manuals tell you to insert the interest rate into a formula , you should use the required rate of return per period . |
13 | Six division lists and two detailed forecasts enable us to assess the consistency of voting patterns in the Lords in Anne 's reign . |
14 | These studies help us to understand the coupling between magnetosphere and ionosphere , and complex natural phenomena such as the aurora . |
15 | Such problems lead us to question the purpose of a ‘ Transition to Adulthood ’ course . |
16 | The aim and shoot features allow you to forget the technicalities and concentrate on composing the picture . |
17 | Opposition Members want us to forbid the use of that personal allowance , if only in part , for a particular purpose . |
18 | The Power Keyboard and Power Mouse programs allow you to alter the way your input devices work — perhaps you want Excel to re-calculate when you hold down |
19 | It is only after the Glorious Revolution — with the emergence of regular sessions of Parliament , when much of the ordinary business of government ( as opposed to just crisis situations ) came to be conducted along party lines , when Parliamentary divisions over a range of issues allow us to see the consistency of party allegiance amongst MPs , and when the parties came to develop fairly sophisticated organisational structures for the pursuit of their political goals — that it is possible to talk of a two-party system . |
20 | Such poorly presented results do nothing to support the credibility ( and hence the funding ! ) of an interesting field which deserves more critical attention . |
21 | Drugs do nothing to remove the cause of a headache which more often than not stems from nervous and muscular tension , something aromatherapy massage will gently soothe away . |
22 | These measurements allow us to assess the extent of photochemically driven peroxy radical chemistry in ozone destruction without the complications of simultaneous ozone-forming NO x chemistry . |
23 | Thus spiders enable us to analyse the ecology of sexual dimorphism ( with empirical investigations of particular species or ecotypes ) , as well as study its evolution ( by using he comparative method to juxtapose different species or ecotypes ) . |
24 | These expressions enable us to obtain the expectations on the right-hand side of equation ( 3.44 ) . |
25 | ‘ Is Mr Clarke suggesting that 220,000 jobs do nothing to help the economy ? |