Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , policies designed to further the employment prospects of women need to be informed by such an understanding . |
| 2 | ‘ These plans are designed to further the Government 's commitment to wider and deeper share ownership and to a successful sale of BT shares in 1993/4 , ’ said Stephen Dorrell , financial secretary to the Treasury , told a seminar of stockbrokers and other financial intermediaries . |
| 3 | She pressed a hand to her bosom to try to still the wild fluttering of her heart . |
| 4 | All the metropolitan dailies published in 1855 as well as in 1870 were committed to either the Liberals or the Conservatives ; the same was also broadly true of the English provincial daily press . |
| 5 | The discourse analyst , with his ‘ ordinary language ’ data , is committed to quite a different view of the rule-governed aspects of a language . |
| 6 | Related species often grow to twice the diameter . |
| 7 | In some strange way it helped to even the score over Elise . |
| 8 | I can only suppose that commercial flights fly to where the VCR should be using inertial navigation , but this was not quite within our capabilities . |
| 9 | In the above excluded instances the MAS team will remain an important member of the client 's team , acting as a catalyst/manager of the process , but the lead role as far as the public are concerned would fall to either a merchant bank or stockbroker with suitable experience in the public arena . |
| 10 | Tough love should be kind , gentle and understanding to both the family member and the primary sufferer , while nonetheless allowing each to be fully responsible for his or her own feelings and behaviour and for taking the full consequences of all choices of individual action . |
| 11 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 12 | CITES is also expected to back a British proposal for Appendix II listing of Turkish exports of winter daffodils . |
| 13 | Post-election analysis predicted that while 14 governors could be expected to back the government , eight others were doubtful and four governors would support the opposition parties . |
| 14 | New compact five-speed manual and four-speed automatic gearboxes are mated to either a 135bhp multivalve 2-litre engine or the smooth and powerful 170bhp 3-litre V6 unit . |
| 15 | Oldham worked diligently to put Arsenal under maximum pressure from the start , and both O'Leary and Dixon had anxious moments as they strove to adjust to both the home attack and the artificial turf . |
| 16 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 17 | For example in an advertising agency discussion about a new campaign to revive a soft drink one person might be trying to solve the problem of how an old drink can be called " new " in any sense ; another person might be trying to solve the problem of how " old " can be made appealing ; arid a third person might be trying to solve the problem of designing a theme that will sell not to the public but to the marketing manager who has to okay the campaign . |
| 18 | ‘ Every investor has to back the judgment and ability of the management , but what we want to control is the exceptional event , ’ says Enskilda Ventures ' managing director Bert Wiegman . |
| 19 | be doing , us at the management team here , is saying , look , we know we 're gon na have trou we want to please the client . |
| 20 | Where possible , you should choose a period that is in line with how long you want to deep the car , so that when the time comes to replace it you can start again from scratch . |
| 21 | They feel , they want to better the world . |
| 22 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 23 | Pull-down menus and point-and-click icons ensure that you can get to where you want to in a hurry and the unique help icon means there 's always help at hand . |
| 24 | I still intend to train as a doctor , because I feel there is no more interesting and worthwhile way to spend my life , but how many other people will be able to or want to in the future ? |
| 25 | In 1758 Essex clothiers similarly added to both the length and width of the expected piece . |
| 26 | This in turn has led to increasing Government interference in matters relating to both the organisation and professional functions of medical groups . |
| 27 | Ah , ‘ t is a sorry pass we are come to when a lady is robbed of the clothes on her back . ’ |
| 28 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 29 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 30 | I think you 've come to really the wrong committee to try and get money . |