Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A resolution passed overwhelmingly empowers the republican government — which has effectively taken charge since the disintegration of Soviet central authority after the failed coup in August — to close the second reactor immediately and to bring forward the closure of the whole complex from 1995 to 1993 . |
| 2 | Once the four old aircraft hangars were erected side-by-side to make the Central Works , construction of the first completely new car began . |
| 3 | She tried not to even consider the soft swell of his expressive mouth , and gabbled on to break the tense atmosphere . |
| 4 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 5 | But … the growth in net exports ( of ) services and food can not be relied on to replace the loss of manufacturing and oil net exports and secure further growth sufficient to achieve full employment ’ ( p. 139 ) . |
| 6 | It can be argued that the interests of the various groups affected by company decision making — employees , local communities , consumers , and all of us , through our interest in the environment , for example — are invested with a moral significance that can not be adequately captured within the relatively finite external legal controls that are currently relied on to regulate the terms on which wealth is created . |
| 7 | I agree with Jacobs that legislation may be the only answer as commercial forces , if left to their own devices , can not be relied on to protect the most vulnerable members of society . |
| 8 | So the teacher finally asks Peggy , who can be relied on to know the correct answer : |
| 9 | As well as seeking to eliminate the old technicalities , in which it has , I think , been largely successful , the new code made one radical alteration in the nature of the evidence which could be relied on to prove the offence . |
| 10 | The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia , and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure . |
| 11 | They know she can be relied on to make the big day for her clients sparkle with the perfect glittering accessory . |
| 12 | His mere re-election can be relied on to revive the market and solve those problems — without costing the public purse one penny . |
| 13 | He returned Malkin 's right-wing ball for Irons to crash a shot back off the crossbar , Aldridge reacting instinctively to hook the rebound in . |
| 14 | He asked if Hall had forgotten that it was intended eventually to extend the new buildings as far as Great George Street where they would be seen with the Abbey and the Palace of Westminster . |
| 15 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 16 | In future , core samples will have to be examined microscopically to determine the likelihood of failure , but development of the new test is not yet complete and will not be available until summer at the earliest . |
| 17 | It goes on flouting the popular will by refusing a referendum on the Maastricht treaty . |
| 18 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
| 19 | He goes on to deplore the abandonment of ‘ subjects that really matter ’ , and the exchange of ‘ solid fact ’ for ‘ airy speculation ’ . |
| 20 | He then goes on to ask the same question about people with extraordinary talents , whether in physics , generalship or painting . |
| 21 | It goes on to define the objective of this policy as safeguarding ‘ the common values , fundamental interests and independence of the Union ’ . |
| 22 | He goes on to explain the nature of a specifically Christian order — a society which would construct a framework for the political acts of the state , which would realize the importance of a Christian education and in which a " Community of Christians " , an elite of both laity and clerisy , would influence the values of the ordinary citizens of the country . |
| 23 | After condemning the ‘ Baudelairean ’ atmosphere of the nineteenth century ( ‘ it is the triumph of romantic disorder ’ ) , and its cult of individual genius , Jacob goes on to stress the objectivity of modern poetry ( which is by contrast ‘ a universal poetry ’ ) and the fact that a work of art ‘ is of value in itself and not because of any confrontation one can make with reality ’ . |
| 24 | Some of that money goes on convincing the local community . |
| 25 | She goes on to represent the province at the world final of the Smirnoff International Fashion Awards in Rio in October , with the chance to win 10,000 US dollars to help develop her career . |
| 26 | In Act One he first of all introduces himself and his job and what this entails and then he goes on to set the scene by describing the general vicinity and its history . |
| 27 | This is from one of the letters written by Shelley in Italy , which goes on to describe the painting of St Cecilia by Raphael : |
| 28 | Jordanova goes on to describe the statue in the Paris medical faculty , which shows a young woman , with bare breasts , head bowed , in the process of removing her veil : it is called ‘ Nature unveils herself before Science ’ . |
| 29 | Simonds goes on to describe the general layout in some detail , including ‘ a long stable , well lighted ( by windows and oil lamps ) and ventilated . |
| 30 | The chapter goes on to describe the way in which a non-governmental organisation attempted to introduce Oral Rehydration Therapy to Bangladesh as an appropriate technology by trying to avoid the problems associated with the pre-packaged salts . |