Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because analogue videophones have to squash video and audio down telephone lines developed to carry just the latter , compression techniques are used to reduce the amount of information needed to create a video picture . |
| 2 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 3 | The park was formed to preserve forever the spectacular countryside , lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier . |
| 4 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 5 | Things have changed now of course , but acts tend to tour just the Eastern side , so Western Australia still misses out because it 's such a bloody hike from Adelaide to Perth . ’ |
| 6 | However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index . |
| 7 | Chair , could I make , could I suggest maybe that in future when you ask organisations you make it harder for getting a license for street collection , that you tell them that you 'll want to know exactly the proportions , but I mean put it back on to them , rather than be you having to bother to it in the future . |
| 8 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 9 | Each eye that looks to wear away the glass a little bit . |
| 10 | ‘ We want to drive forward the traditional relationship between the sales houses and the stations . |
| 11 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
| 12 | Each generation of legionnaires was expected to carry forward the traditions and ethics of the Legion , handing them down from one man to the next . |
| 13 | The recommendation was that 5,000 to 6,000 of these were suitable for inclusion in the lending section of any small or middle-sized library , and that the largest libraries would be expected to include almost the whole range of British books , amounting to about 17,000 titles . |
| 14 | But the Scanachrome process introduces a linear scanning over the whole image , so I proposed to paint only the area of the TV screen and leave the scanning on everything that is n't TV . |
| 15 | You will then need to gather together the necessary things to make an application . |
| 16 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 17 | People often want to agree today the price of some future payment . |
| 18 | Both have been designed to meet fully the requirements a set out by the County Council and we 're quite happy , we can actually meet that requirement of being one kilometre from Flaxton , in fact we greatly exceed that distance , despite and that is a on the design of a larger new settlement than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 19 | Class 158s appear to work only the 07:00 , 13:10 and 15:21 services . |
| 20 | I 'd be glad if you 'd let me know , because we , we want to know yet the numbers , and how many we 're going to get . |
| 21 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 22 | In this case the arbitrator has to accept either the position of the management or that of the workforce — the purpose of such arbitration is to encourage moderation , by discouraging unrealistically high pay claims from the workforce and unrealistically low offers from the management , in the expectation that a traditional arbitrator would eventually ‘ split the difference ’ between the two positions . |
| 23 | The report concluded that : ‘ Most of the advantages appear to benefit directly the builder or developer , whereas the consumer is left with a dwelling which must have some inherent risks , however small . ’ |
| 24 | Filters can be designed to extract either the background pattern or the pattern of local variation . |
| 25 | Erm we 'll need to isolate separately the wages on that cost Lynne because we 'll need to add it to the |
| 26 | Following the announcement , the government began a news-management campaign designed to talk away the problem . |
| 27 | The CD laser stylus is designed to detect only the presence or absence of a pit . |
| 28 | From this point of view , a budget is expected to state clearly the purposes of expenditures and provide them in a from that will be useful for legislative action . |
| 29 | In the light of the conclusion to which I have come , I do not need to explore further the question of the exercise of the judge 's discretion . |
| 30 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |