Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do , however , have some minor reservations about their approach to individual movements ( the Finale of Op. 51 No. 1 strikes me as a little lacking in urgency , for example ) and the recordings tend to emphasise a rather compressed dynamic range . |
| 2 | Work with oriented single crystals can give detailed information ; specialized texts ( see Ref. [ 7 ] , p. 63 ) should be consulted to enable the best use to be made of such experiments . |
| 3 | Although the Labour party failed to mount a sufficiently large campaign against the non-intervention policy , there seems little doubt that the government would have continued along its agreed course . |
| 4 | In 1894 , the Board agreed to erect an entirely new school for 400 boys at an estimated cost , ex-land , of £2,800 . |
| 5 | The head teacher has the reputation of the school to protect , and might not want to lose an otherwise good teacher . |
| 6 | He told the meeting of MPs that he would prefer to see a more democratically-accountable bank but that he refused to support anything which jeopardised the treaty . |
| 7 | Since Cisco first appeared in shops last year , local hospitals have reported an unusual number of teenagers ( who tend to like the relatively weak ‘ wine coolers ’ ) checking in with alcohol poisoning after drinking the stuff . |
| 8 | Although these classifications and their spatial patterns tend to confirm the generally accepted view of rural population already discussed here and in Chapter 4 , Webber and Craig admit that multivariate classification is a subject on which virtually no two practitioners agree either in the UK or in other countries like France ( Chapius , 1973 ) and therefore argue that the crucial test should not be the methodology but whether the classifications are useful . |
| 9 | Regulatory agencies must operate in a political environment , for regulation is intended to preserve the sometimes fragile balance between the interests of economic activity on the one hand and the public welfare on the other . |
| 10 | Such preaching , far from deterring the people , attracted them in such large numbers that the parish church of St.Mary and All Saints , which held about 1,000 , was filled beyond its capacity so that five galleries had to be erected to accommodate the greatly enlarged congregation . |
| 11 | ‘ the remit for UDCs should be altered to provide a more precise definition of ‘ regeneration' ’ ( 1988 , p4 ) |
| 12 | The committee went on to recommend that the remit for UDCs should be altered to provide a more precise definition of ‘ regeneration ’ . |
| 13 | Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best ? |
| 14 | Many of them wear slippers around the house , and if they tend to shuffle a little as their joints stiffen , rugs become dangerous obstacles to their safe movement from room to room . |
| 15 | During the course of April , the feelers put out earlier by Baghdad were followed up ; both Talabani and Barzani participated in talks with the Iraqi leadership in which the Kurds sought to secure a more workable version of the autonomy negotiated in 1970 . |
| 16 | Provided that the game is fair and given that the majority of investors hold diversified portfolios , as of course the dominant institutional investors do , then it is debatable whether extensive additional audit work is justified to provide the relatively small numbers of undiversified investors with information about the likely variance of cash flows . |
| 17 | The neutrons came from fusion reactions between particles that had been accelerated to very high energies by magnetic fields the scientists were using to contain the very hot ionised gases that were supposed to support fusion . |
| 18 | Separate provision for young disabled adults did not emerge until the early 1980s , when a group , known as Contact , was formed to provide a more comprehensive facility than existing services . |
| 19 | Most of such work was unsuitable for operating in winter when unemployment was highest and when carried out with an untrained labour force it was expensive or inefficient , and failed to attract the temporarily unemployed artisans for whom it was intended . |
| 20 | A final class sought to find the most ‘ humerous . ’ |
| 21 | My report on this tour concluded with the words : ‘ I shall be grateful for any suggestions as to how this Department may co-operate in helping to meet the desperately urgent situation that is about to develop in the Delta villages . ’ |
| 22 | The above is intended to indicate the fairly small amounts of formaldehyde likely to gain access to the air in an embalming theatre , never-the-less we are very aware of the potential hazard of the gas and advise our members accordingly . |
| 23 | As their relationship to the USSR is well known , the armed forces tend to attract the more pro-Soviet elements of the population . |
| 24 | The company also agreed to provide a more adequate explanation of changes in accounting policy in future , and the Panel welcomed the directors ' intention ‘ to ensure that future notes will include reiteration of the former policy as well as a description of the new policy ’ . |
| 25 | For those readers who are familiar with the circular flow model outlined in Chapter 1 , this appendix is intended to provide a slightly more rigorous approach to that which has already been developed in Sections 1.2 — 1.5 . |
| 26 | These large juries were clearly intended to provide a reasonably representative sample of popular opinion . |
| 27 | Similarly , an appropriate promotional " mix " may be formulated to provide the most effective communication to , and persuasion of those specific people , who make up the segment , or are likely to seek the product or its benefits within the purchase contexts that the analysis has identified . |
| 28 | If we are to continue to meet the rapidly growing needs of those who look to us for care and prevention , we urgently need you to share the challenge with us . |
| 29 | The restructuring has not only provided the opportunity to gather the best of our expertise at the new centres and better serve our clients through local offices but will also provide for much greater efficiency and make us better placed to meet the ever changing demands of the 90s . |
| 30 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |