Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |
| 2 | Abolitionists did not expect immediate conversion by slaveholders ; it was not necessary in so far as they were sure planters could not for long resist the economic imperatives . |
| 3 | We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach . |
| 4 | Illert , through his research , is now in a position to rigorously describe the shapes of past , present and future shell forms , and as sea shells are amongst the best preserved of all fossils , we have a progression throughout the entire fossil record from the Pre-Cambrian era right up to the present day . |
| 5 | At times , brash , slashing guitars suddenly rip through a sublime melody , only for Luna 2 to deftly heal the wound within the lick of a well-aimed riff . |
| 6 | The black girl bent suggestively forward to slowly slide the lighted candle into her backside , and as she held it in her back passage , the whip effortlessly flicked out the flame . |
| 7 | She closed her eyes as he reached an exploratory finger to slowly outline the curve of her cheek , her chin , her throat , all the way down to one tight , aching nipple . |
| 8 | Averting her eyes , she stared down at the ironing-board , then , for the lack of any other brilliant alternatives , began to slowly move the iron back and forth across her blouse , her face shuttered . |
| 9 | The day 's cheese-making gets going at around 8am when Karen adds a specially prepared culture or ‘ starter ’ , which is designed to slowly increase the milk 's acidity . |
| 10 | To say aloud that God does n't exist is to thereby negate the Devil . |
| 11 | For example , Snider examined the enforcement of the Canadian Combine Investigation Act , 1889 , which makes it ‘ illegal to conspire or arrange with another person to limit unduly the facilities to manufacture any article , or to prevent or lessen unduly competition in the manufacture or production of any article and to thereby increase the price ’ ( 1978 : 147 ) . |
| 12 | This is a Well-Tempered Clavier of universal appeal that seems to paradoxically embrace the romantic Russian school of Feinberg and Goldenweiser , ( Nikolayeva 's teacher ) , as well as the demands of our own age for authenticity and clarity . |
| 13 | Underlying the mental health movement in the USA was ‘ widespread faith in the ability of mental health experts to effectively manipulate the social environment ’ . |
| 14 | These characteristics help to support popular notions of the upper class as ‘ the aristocracy ‘ — landowners with titles ranked below the monarchy — or as an ‘ establishment ’ where elite individuals man ( sic ) core traditional institutions in order to effectively control the country . |
| 15 | However , before taking any adverse moral position it should be borne in mind that it is only the existence of such risk takers that allow risk-averse ( such as those described in motives 4 to 5 ) investors to effectively sell the risk of their portfolios or investments . |
| 16 | Of course he is still er going to presumably appoint the regional panels , the professional recruitment consultant and the two people who themselves will be independent of government . |
| 17 | John Warnock and Chuck Geschke of Adobe both worked for Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Centre where PDLs were invented and set up their company to commercially exploit the concepts they had helped develop . |
| 18 | In other words , it 's one thing to stealthily infiltrate the mainstream ; another to write a song George Bush could smilingly applaud at some godawful Super Bowl pageant . |
| 19 | Your best bet then is to loosely coil the excess cable , secure with a plastic-covered wire tie , and concealed behind the tank , still use the cable tidy . |
| 20 | It was dreamed up for the Monkees and its original conception was supposed to loosely parody the Beatles ' films A Hard Day 's Night and Help . |
| 21 | This is illustrated in developed countries by the increase in unemployment which is fundamentally a failure to properly utilise the total Human Resource . |
| 22 | If client experience did not change , it was important to know whether this was a result of the failure of the experimental service to work , or a failure to properly create the experimental service . |
| 23 | On 9 November 1990 , in an action by the plaintiffs claiming damages against the defendants for conspiracy to defraud in respect of a number of property transactions conducted by the defendants on the plaintiffs ' behalf , the third defendant issued a third party notice against J. , an accountant who had advised the plaintiffs , claiming an indemnity or , alternatively , a contribution to such an extent as the court might think just , on the ground of the third party 's alleged failure to properly advise the plaintiffs in relation to the transactions . |
| 24 | It is a patent nonsense not to have a more meaningful zonation to properly reflect the severity of permanent natural handicaps on agriculture and to more precisely tie in the various aids and incentives to the degree of handicap as required by the Directive . |
| 25 | The LFA in the UK should be more meaningfully zoned to properly reflect the degree of natural handicap as required under Directive 75/268 . |
| 26 | ( 1981 , p. 42 ) also state that ‘ non financial information concerning effectiveness of programs and equity of service delivery is necessary to properly evaluate the performance of incumbent administrators ’ . |
| 27 | The Milanese took great pains over its reconstruction in order to properly reinstate the great courtyard that formed the heart of Il Filarete 's dream . |
| 28 | failing to adopt a comprehensive equal opportunities policy in relation to its activities both as a provider of educational/vocational services and an employer of staff ( in particular the failure to properly consider the need to employ an equal opportunities officer derived from the ethnic minorities using the GOQ provision of the Race Relations Act 1976 ) ; |
| 29 | Admittedly Tchakarov is not helped by an opaque and woolly recording that fails to properly focus the orchestra , but even so he misses the raw power and vigour that Fedoseyev finds in his Philips set . |
| 30 | There were persistent complaints that the rates system was complicated and inequitable , for instance because it was difficult to properly assess the rentable value of any property . |