Example sentences of "[adv] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pask more determinedly attempted to block Self 's attempts to assert control , which he saw as unnecessary complications at a time when their efforts should be directed single-mindedly to overcoming the serious generating plant backlog . |
| 2 | This project is concerned to explore these issues in greater depth as a contribution not only to reading the Archive but also to more general understanding of the everyday uses and meanings of literacy . |
| 3 | It would be a guerdon , second only to receiving the Legion d'honneur , to take and train this talented boy . |
| 4 | This applies not only to bringing the Springboks up to running speed on the international scene but also , and more crucially , to ensuring that the process of black and white integration stated by the formation of SARFU advances far beyond the fundamentally cosmetic union achieved to date . |
| 5 | He suggests that there is little evidence that any British Government ever managed the unemployment rate simply with a view only to winning the next election . |
| 6 | This , then , commits the sociologist , not only to studying the ‘ known facts ’ about deviant behaviour , but also the conceptual categories and interpretive procedures by which these facts become intelligible . |
| 7 | In addition , the goals , priorities , and even activities of the human resource manager may require major modification as a result of transformational change ; he or she may need to switch from controlling to facilitating , from providing services only to leading the change , and/or from simply implementing policies to actively initiating new mechanisms like improved reward systems . |
| 8 | But there 's also conceptual jargon , where you might go halfway to addressing the issue , but a very complicated concept , with various complications to the argument that you 're trying to put across . |
| 9 | The dust wagon came up to the warehouse today , the usual they 'd got halfway to emptying the first dustbin in the back |
| 10 | In order to keep things manageable , section 3.1 is devoted entirely to explaining the external constraint structure bearing on a plc , while section 3.2 provides the comparisons between plc 's and alternative institutions . |
| 11 | Second , the EEC 's retention of its subsidy policy in culture is the chief obstacle to agreement at the GATT talks and thus to freeing the world trading system , including providing new markets for British farmers . |
| 12 | The convention 's first section on the main areas of co-operation was headed by a chapter on environmental issues , in which both sides committed themselves not just to respecting the environment in the planning and execution of aid projects , but also to ensuring that " economic and social development is based on a sustainable balance between economic objectives , management of natural resources and enhancement of human resources ' . |
| 13 | Graham also reported that 12 of the 23 librarians had provided some form of budget estimates , though most of these had related largely to maintaining the existing value of materials funds by reporting on risen costs , from inflation such as the twice-yearly Average prices of British academic books and Blackwells 's information on periodical prices , together with other factors discussed in the section on public library budgeting above . |
| 14 | ‘ I see , ’ the Doctor went on with a harder edge in his voice , ‘ that you are the sort of hypocritical egomaniac who talks about betrayal when he 's condemning thousands of his own people in Haiti and millions in Africa and elsewhere to living the lives of mere insects ! ’ |
| 15 | By the end of the month it appeared that FAPLA , which claimed to be acting defensively , had breached the rebel UNITA defences and come close to capturing the airstrip near Mavinga , 19 km south of the Lomba river . |
| 16 | The examples that Shklovsky 's enthusiasm for the idea makes him choose in the early essays are extremely heterogeneous , and this heterogeneity makes him come close to spoiling the unique value of his case . |
| 17 | Because , whether intentional or not , both these men come close to implying the girls were partly to blame . |
| 18 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 19 | Yesterday the Securities & Investments Board , the champion of that Act , came perilously close to removing the pillar by allowing stockbrokers ' soft-commissions practices to continue . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister came close to accusing the Chancellor of starting the inflationary spiral by an attempt to link the rate for sterling with the value of the German deutschmark . |
| 21 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 22 | He categorizes the transformation of the inexpressible " visceral " need through four stages , ending up with a " compromised " need which requires extensive negotiation with the assistance of a librarian to come close to fulfilling the original visceral need . |
| 23 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 24 | This is probably the only PC-based software package that comes close to emulating the integrated environment of a workstation . |
| 25 | MICHAEL STICH last night came close to producing the sort of form that won him Wimbledon two years ago , to move into the semi-finals of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |
| 26 | Two years later , he joined Louis in a war against Holland , which came close to destroying the Protestant republic . |
| 27 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 28 | But there were times when Boro looked vulnerable with the Tigers so close to providing the unexpected . |
| 29 | Three of Zeneca 's new products come close to meeting the blockbuster criteria : Casodex , Accolate and Merrem could all be approved for use by 1996 . |
| 30 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |