Example sentences of "to completely [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 2 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 3 | After recently having an exchange engine professionally fitted to my 1980 Range Rover , I decided to completely renew the suspension using heavy duty front and rear springs ‘ G ’ on front ‘ Y ’ on rear and four new shock absorbers . |
| 4 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 5 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 6 | It was impossible to completely check the global effects of each alteration to the file . |
| 7 | The only way in which one could incorporate such fine-grained information from the Text710 would be to completely re-tag the LOB corpus . |
| 8 | It is possible to dissect open the animal 's body so as to expose the abdominal ganglion and its cells , or even to completely isolate the ganglion and the nerves connecting it to pieces of attached skin and gill . |
| 9 | Because the system makes local optimal decisions rather than on a sentential basis , an incorrect decision early on in the sentence is unlikely to completely ruin the decisions later in the sentence . |
| 10 | Sprinkle the yeast over the water in a cup and leave to stand for a few minutes in a warm place before stirring to completely dissolve the yeast . |
| 11 | We now have enough laws to completely capture the semantics of our version of occam . |
| 12 | The response to the dilemma by a growing number of schools is to completely abandon the sale of food at breaks and to look to other means to generate funds . |
| 13 | Leaving aside personal choice , compatibility and so on , can I introduce fish into the aquarium when it is ready and matured and add the invertebrates at a later date , or will it be necessary to completely re-stock the aquarium , thus getting rid of the fish which are already in-situ ? |
| 14 | This differential effect on the two parameters of lysosomal stability may indicate that the predominant effect of chronic ethanol administration and of cholesteryl ester is to increase the permeability of pancreatic lysosomal membranes rather than to completely disrupt the organelles . |
| 15 | Consequently , a Filing Working Party was established and , alter extensive examination of the reference construction , it was found that the only changes considered viable ( ie that could be made without having to completely revise the titles of some 60,000 active files ) were to the first three fields of the reference structure , establishing the basis for a limited computerised search facility in the proposed index system , rather than the extensive facilities envisaged by the FAOR Team . |
| 16 | GCHQ have analysed the signals and they are designed to completely confuse the whole system controlled from Bacton . ’ |
| 17 | Once located , the operator will be able to completely remove the subject 's fears caused by the trauma ; but not necessarily , as your article also stated , by making the subject relive the original experience , which could cause further damage . |
| 18 | The day after this raid was the official start of Operation Strangle , an attempt to completely destroy the enemy lines of communication . |
| 19 | This rule , together with our laws and the rule of substitution for expressions is enough to completely characterise the semantics of occam if the set of values is finite . |
| 20 | it is time for the Government to completely reassess the impact of their reforms on the quality of the nation 's health services , ’ he said . |
| 21 | The second initiative was a decision to completely overhaul the emergency plan which would be used should an accident at Hinkley Point spread radiation outside the site boundary . |
| 22 | The first step was to completely drain the old pond and remove all useful fittings . |
| 23 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 24 | NCp7A , NCp7B and NCp7C were all able to completely retard the migration of this DNA at ratios of NC protein:DNA very similar to that obtained with NCp7 . |