Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 32 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 33 | De Gaulle obviously expected her to say something like : ‘ So much is evident from the content . ’ |
| 34 | The reward for encouraging all members of staff to be active participants in the decision-making process , so helping them to develop an ownership of the final policy , is that it gives the policy a greater chance of being fully implemented across the curriculum . |
| 35 | This keeps the register ‘ live ’ and provides a steady income for the UKCC , so helping it to move towards financial independence from government subsidy . |
| 36 | The deictic elements and terms are constantly helping us to sort from possible contexts , helping us to move from symbolic meaning to some kind of reconstructed indexical meaning . |
| 37 | I could n't have Cal thinking this creature had anything to do with me — I 'd have to explain I was only using him to threaten Mum and Dad with . |
| 38 | If you take it to make yourself numb , in order to forget or to help you sleep , you are only using it to mask the symptoms of a distressing situation which will still be there tomorrow . |
| 39 | Speechreading should be more than a communication aid ; it should enrich your quality of life , perhaps assisting you to become a more observant person , more aware , more alive , with the flexibility to adapt and adjust to new circumstances and with the courage and confidence to persist . |
| 40 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 41 | Some bags use a silicone treated down to enable them to resist damp . |
| 42 | These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce . |
| 43 | and I do n't know whether she took me down to see him to see if I 'd backed down |
| 44 | ‘ But , despite my perhaps allowing you to believe that , when you had the effrontery to talk incessantly about your lunch with him over dinner … ’ |
| 45 | It is evident that no blame was felt to attach to Vlasov for his part in the battle , since on 11 November Stalin personally appointed him to command 20th Army , entrusting him with 15 precious tanks and a vital role under Zhukov in the planned defence of Moscow . |
| 46 | She is only encouraging them to use an instinctive faculty they already possess , to develop the already existent , mental and physical muscles . |
| 47 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ Not very much , just enough to enable me to come to Ireland . ’ |
| 49 | Their toughness and wounds are high enough to enable them to get away without a shield . |
| 50 | These times were long enough to enable them to study the behaviour of the plasma and its response to the magnetic forces , necessary first steps along the way to controlled thermonuclear fusion . |
| 51 | The senate , however , consisted of more members of the nobility than of the emerging burgher class , for their economic situation was not strong enough to enable them to develop as they did in the cities of northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 52 | Another reason why lone-parent families could gain very little from these new measures is simply that absent parents may not have incomes high enough to enable them to pay child support at the levels required . |
| 53 | It did not displease him ; she would make him a suitable wife , and would know her place when , as he hoped still , he had elevated his position enough to enable him to support her . |
| 54 | It did not displease him ; she would make him a suitable wife , and would know her place when , as he hoped still , he had elevated his position enough to enable him to support her . |
| 55 | He usually stood on a little platform raised high enough to enable him to see over and past the cabins when the boat was moving . |
| 56 | I find the easiest way is not to attempt to free the yarn from the sinker plate completely , but to free it just enough to enable you to push the carriage on past the weaving yarn . |
| 57 | What we 're looking for is a quality system and a set of procedures which are flexible enough to enable you to handle the slick jobs , which you have n't got a lot of fee income for . |
| 58 | Fig 48 They should be long enough to enable you to sail with almost straight arms . |
| 59 | On the other hand , it requires a membership large enough to enable it to represent a significant number of credit managers . |
| 60 | I would accept , however , that this court 's appellate jurisdiction is wide enough to enable it to entertain such an application . |