Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perfectly proper to raise aesthetic questions in courses in biological sciences or ( in courses on occupational therapy ) on the aesthetic quality of aids given to patients ; or to ask moral questions about work in nuclear physics or ( in legal studies ) about sentencing policy in the courts ; or to find out the historical development of any subject . |
| 2 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 3 | Voltage and current signals can be used to pre-set speed or to call up the actual values for speed and torque , and the start/stop functions can be activated using the same method . |
| 4 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 5 | Pupils are helped to work out the rules and patterns for themselves and to try out the new language forms . |
| 6 | It is difficult to know whether FDI would take place without incentives and to work out the actual cost to the people of the tax remissions and infrastructural investments made by the host governments of the countries where TNCs enjoy these privileges . |
| 7 | Finally , the whole of the Gospel leads to the commission of the Church , to go out and baptise , to teach , and to pass on the new law of Christianity ( Matt. |
| 8 | He instructed his panic-stricken , guilt-ridden wife to pack up Kemp 's clothes in a suitcase , and to clean up the bloody mess that must have been left on the carpet , and probably on the sheets . |
| 9 | Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run . |
| 10 | Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator Terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run . |
| 11 | ‘ It will be good to see the England lads again and to put on the international shirt , ’ says Gazza . |
| 12 | The test of " a right to stay " on the land is in both cases , " Did that person possess the land in fact , while intending to use the land and to keep out the whole world ? " |
| 13 | I can Promise you that the police will do everything they can to find Mr. Stavanger , and to clear up the other matters we have been discussing . " |
| 14 | This was the context in which the Shah determined to do as his father had done — to destroy all possible Iranian opposition , and to build up the armed forces as the basis of his power . |
| 15 | Most boots will have a mixture of D-rings and hooks to keep the laces in place and to speed up the lacing process . |
| 16 | Attempts were made to root out those businessmen who had supported Hitler and to break up the industrial cartels which had provided the materials for the German war efforts . |
| 17 | In theory , each of these has the capacity to know to be a medium and even large scale business , and to take on the corporate giants in the course of time . |
| 18 | What is needed from you Congress is to fight these distortions and to take back the front page headlines and make sure that the headlines are accurate , fair and truthful . |
| 19 | Now the growing fires from Gilsland village and castleton were beginning to cast a lurid glow over the scene and to show up the encircling horsemen , a menacing sight . |
| 20 | The European Council has endorsed the demands which we , France and the United States have made to the Libyan Government requiring them to abandon their support of terrorism and to hand over the alleged perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 21 | Nothing remained but to tie up the loose ends of the dispute . |