Example sentences of "to [noun] [conj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new competition created by all these external and internal forces has increased the barriers to entry and thus the degree of global concentration in many industries . |
| 2 | The base split from side to side but fortunately the water only seeped out . |
| 3 | The ruins passed to starboard and then the lighthouse . |
| 4 | Now the tax has been scrapped , but was it due to citizenship or merely the need of a new leader to gain popularity ? |
| 5 | Both are worried that Keith is embarking on the long downhill road to delinquency and even the nursery staff have resorted to clichés to describe his behaviour . |
| 6 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 7 | Preservation , it was claimed , had not only jeopardized the market 's move to Docklands but even the survival of the fishing industry of Great Britain ! |
| 8 | On landing there he angrily refused to negotiate and demanded to be taken to Sweden and then the United States , warning in a note : ‘ We shall land in New York together , or die together . ’ |
| 9 | Ontario Homes continued to make a useful contribution to profits although elsewhere the combination of thin trading and year-end provisions against land values created operating losses . |
| 10 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 11 | You know the entertainer first gives himself to God and then the public . ’ |
| 12 | It followed that the periods varied in length from season to season and hence the duration of the hours fluctuated . |
| 13 | ‘ to persons in or on that vehicle ( or trailer ) 'means that the danger or potential danger is sufficient if it applies to passengers or even the driver of the motor vehicle concerned . |
| 14 | It was , therefore , open to argument that theoretically the income must be held to have been received by them . |
| 15 | ‘ But all this has to be seen in the context of what is going to happen to Britain and indeed the world in a climate of great tension between nations . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah we went to France and then the thing about the bath came back and we all had a bath but we were all wearing clothes |
| 17 | I heard Luney arrive , heard her talking to Franky and then the boat going away . |
| 18 | This submission would make a nonsense of the rule that a grant for an uncertain term does not create a lease and would make nonsense of the concept of a tenancy from year to year because it is of the essence of a tenancy from year to year that both the landlord and the tenant shall be entitled to give notice determining the tenancy . |
| 19 | The annual fees can change markedly from year to year and so the figures which follow , for the session 1993–94 , must be used only as an indication of the minimum likely to apply in later sessions . |
| 20 | Although Mabel was a more sympathetic personality than her sister Ethel , when it came to discipline she was equally strict , the difference being that she did not take pleasure in enforcing the ruthless repetition that was necessary to get the routines to perfection and consequently the Girls adored her . |
| 21 | However a rough estimate of optimum switching angle can be obtained if the three torque/speed characteristics are approximated by constant torques , effective up to the maximum speed for each angle : The time taken and number of steps executed during acceleration to the maximum speed may be calculated , since for a constant torque , For constant accelerating torque the instantaneous velocity is proportional to time and therefore the distance travelled during acceleration is simply : so for each switching angle the acceleration time and distance can be found : The time taken to travel a total distance of 60 steps can be calculated for each switching angle , e.g. if the switching angle is 6 degrees the system executes the first 25 steps in 94.3 ms and the remaining steps at a constant speed of 540 steps per second : The time taken to decelerate has been neglected in this calculation because the retarding torque ( motor braking torque + load torque ) is , in all three cases , much larger than the accelerating torque ( motor accelerating torque - load torque ) . |