Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 2 | Relations with Taiwan were expected to be downgraded to " representative " status , but Taiwan 's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation was expected to continue to buy the bulk of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia . |
| 3 | He was expected to continue to pursue the broad objectives of the outgoing government , including regional peace in accordance with President Arias 's 1987 peace plan ( Esquipulas II — see p. 35441-42 ) , to which he had initially been opposed . |
| 4 | Under the scheme , forest management and surveillance will be maintained and local people will be permitted to continue to exploit the forest in ways that are supportive of existing ecosystems . |
| 5 | Experiments were therefore designed to try to show the existence of bicarbonate secretion by the normal human oesophagus . |
| 6 | A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow . |
| 7 | A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow . |
| 8 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 9 | The inert gas argon is added to help to start the discharge because the vapour pressure of the mercury is very low . |
| 10 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |
| 11 | Large crowds of Catholics from Poland , Ukraine and Belarus are expected to flock to hear the Pope , although officials in Vilnius said thousands of beds prepared for pilgrims were still unclaimed . |
| 12 | In the absence of a substantive response , Congress is also expected to move to extend the visas of 40,000 Chinese students in the US , many of whom fear persecution should they return home . |
| 13 | Mutalibov immediately declared a state of emergency in Baku , and cancelled presidential elections , due to be held on June 7 and widely expected to bring to power the Popular Front candidate , Abulfaz Elchibey . |
| 14 | How far are people prepared to go to stop the demolition workmen ? |
| 15 | The church was full of the women and girls who had attended the morning service and had decided to wait to see the wedding . |
| 16 | Inevitably , the very fact that someone has decided to try to record the child 's language makes this ideal unattainable . |
| 17 | 15 She had good reason to suspect that it would , for long before the 1924 show opened , she had decided to try to convince the critics to change their ideas about her work by changing the nature of what she exhibited . |
| 18 | The Sri Lankan government has moved to try to counter the criticisms of its human rights record . |
| 19 | France Telecom has moved to try to improve the situation — nearly a month ago , the operator reviewed its objectives and decided to offer GSM service to 90% of the French population in 1994 , rather than in 1997 , as it had previously planned , but that was not enough to satisfy the new government . |
| 20 | He loved the tough life of thrill and fear and his excellent war record had made it easy for him when , in 1941 he had decided to apply to join the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |
| 21 | Despite serious and sometimes substantial attempts to provide policy-makers with alternatives , the view of the problem that has ‘ stuck ’ remains that expressed by Hermann Kahn 's central question , ‘ What price are we prepared to pay to deter the aggressor ? ’ |
| 22 | The two procedures are seen to attempt to handle the result of an imposed change of mechanism state in different ways . |
| 23 | A problem-solving approach is a necessary feature of the nursing process , in which it is applied to seek to alleviate the patient 's problems ; it is also crucial to the research process . |
| 24 | pointed out that the Council was not empowered to act to change the Rules . |
| 25 | Six EC countries have threatened to refuse to ratify the UNCED Convention on Climate Change [ see ED 59/60 ] unless agreement can be reached on an EC-wide energy tax . |
| 26 | Decided to bid to operate the Scheme providing there was a stronger training element and moves have been made in that direction . |
| 27 | It is true that we have had to continue to increase the amount of money that is paid by the Government — by the taxpayer — for restructuring the industry , but we will not reach the ceiling either this year or next year . |
| 28 | The Lutheran Church leadership has agreed to meet to re-evaluate the role of women in the Church 's activities . |
| 29 | A £50,000 reward has been offered to try to trap the killer of two backpackers . |
| 30 | Bill Clinton 's cat is suffering from stress , and a team of feline psychiatrists has been commissioned to try to alleviate the anxiety neurosis of America 's most photographed pet . |