Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His killer , a 16-year-old hired assassin who was wounded and captured , later claimed that a stranger had provided him with a submachine gun and directed him to kill the UP leader . |
| 2 | On the beat ( upwind leg ) the board is not sailed level as on all other points of sailing , but is deliberately heeled to enable the leeward rail to dig in and thus providing more lateral resistance . |
| 3 | This we have called antecedent , a way of seeing causation which calls for the use of the to infinitive to signify the before/after relation between the cause and the effect . |
| 4 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal has ruled that she can use an ancient law to sue the Today newspaper for claiming she stole letters belonging to the princess . |
| 6 | FOURTEEN cricketers of considerable first-class experience formed MCC 's team to tour the Leeward Islands for three weeks at the end of February , captained by Nigel Briers and managed by this correspondent . |
| 7 | Dent followed up with a request for Barnet to meet the 11am deadline an hour before the League 's annual meeting at Walsall . |
| 8 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |
| 9 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 10 | Safely over the down line , she started to cross the up line , but stumbled and fell . |
| 11 | And she claims the Fieldcourt School in Quedgeley has only one teacher trained to help the visually handicapped . |
| 12 | One of the objectives of this work was to trace the south-westward extension of the Highland Boundary Fault . |
| 13 | It is eminently reasonable for an individual to choose the treatment that is likely to generate the most QALYs . |
| 14 | May , sporting an Elvis Presley head-piece nodded to Jenny who had decided to don the best selling Scousers wig set comprising curly wig and moustache straight out of the Harry Enfield 's series . |
| 15 | There were echoes here of 1984 , the year in which the main associations of the book world set up a joint committee to run a vigorous campaign to fight the then Thatcher government 's rumoured intention of levying a positive rate of VAT on books and learned journals . |
| 16 | The first was to cut public expenditure as part of a monetarist approach to inflation control , and the second was to reduce the apparently deadweight burden of ( income ) tax upon incentives . |
| 17 | The signalman , knowing that this train had been in his section for some time and was overdue , set his points and signal from the up main to the up goods loop to allow the up passenger train , following the goods , to run past without any unnecessary delay . |
| 18 | It is essential to get the on/off switch of a mains power supply connected correctly . |
| 19 | In reaction to what the BJP described as an " unconstitutional threat to dismiss the UP government " by union Home Minister S. B. Chavan , BJP members of parliament had declined to join the all-party delegation , and instead sent a separate BJP delegation to Ayodhya the following day . |
| 20 | On his second attempt , Cadfael made straight for Upton to enquire where their younger shepherd was to be found , and set out stoutly to tramp the further mile to a fold high and dry above the water-meadows . |
| 21 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 22 | This is why when you tack it is important to weight the leeward edge as you turn . |
| 23 | While faecal occult blood testing is likely to prove the most cost effective method of screening large populations , genetic tests could initially be targeted at selected high risk groups . |