Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intramural physician monitors adjusted the cyclosporin doses to maintain cyclosporin trough levels between 80 and 120 ng/ml thus allowing the investigators to remain blinded to the study treatment . |
| 2 | The correct approach here is to cut down the obligation to perform undertaken under the contract , rather than attempt to impose an exemption clause covering the liability for a breach committed . |
| 3 | Indeed General de Gaulle , the French leader after 1958 , insisted that the policy must be introduced if France was to remain committed to the Community . |
| 4 | One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig . |
| 5 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 6 | If the heads are restricted to general terms they are a useful means of outlining the transaction and identifying the main areas the parties want to see included in the sale agreement . |
| 7 | Those three weeks had thrown up a heartening variety of political allegiances in the tree-lined avenue but all happy agreements to differ evaporated in the wake of John Major 's sinister victory . |
| 8 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 9 | On June 18 Shamir continued his efforts to appear committed to the peace process , proposing in an interview with the Egyptian magazine Mayyu to invite President Hafez al-Assad of Syria to visit Jerusalem for peace talks , and declaring his willingness to talk to any " elected Arab representative " from the West Bank or Gaza ( but not Jerusalem ) . |
| 10 | All the more important , then , to stand protected from the like and ensure that all things — not excluding alcohol — conspire to bear visible witness to that ruddy hue sported by the English living in the Tropics . ’ |
| 11 | Work places have always had supervisors to measure output , so it is hard to explain why it was so much more painful to work plugged into the big brain . |
| 12 | If the marital rape exemption had been abolished in England and the decision to prosecute left to the police , there is no reason to think that their approach to marital rape cases would have been anything other than cautious . |
| 13 | However , consider the sort of lexical content you would expect to find associated with the forms treatment , landing , party and basin in a dictionary entry , and note how finding the forms embedded within a co-text constrains their interpretation . |
| 14 | The description by Jill Tweedie of the organic sheep farmer I was travelling to meet bounced from the page : ‘ This once respectable female stripped off and began sitting around in front of cameras with her legs apart and her hands in unmentionable places . ’ |
| 15 | Such cultural diversity we should expect to find expressed in the structures and institutional life of the churches . |
| 16 | Item No. 1 : this winged lion of St Mark in a gondola is the typical sort of item you would expect to find attached to the top of expensive furniture . |
| 17 | A united Germany would be more likely to remain incorporated in the West 's institutions . |
| 18 | To do this , the researcher has to remain detached from the group at the same time as becoming a member of it . |
| 19 | And something has to be done about the over-breeding of pedigree dogs : I 've met Home Office Minister Angela Rumbold to discuss important changes I would like to see made to The Dog Breeding Act . ’ |
| 20 | D ) Pipette disposal box , the exterior of which is covered with 1 mm lead to eliminate Bremsstrahlung from the plexiglass . |
| 21 | Civilian patients had been turned out three days earlier , as the hospital prepared to receive wounded from the Eastern theatre of war . |
| 22 | This relates to bias introduced by the use of different observers/interviewers at T 1 and T 2 or simply the same people becoming more skilled/bored , or the researcher may be tempted to use ‘ improved ’ scales of IQ , occupational prestige , etc. , at T 2 . |
| 23 | As they drew nearer Joseph could see the flat peasant faces of the four Annamese boys clearly ; they were wide-eyed with apprehension , but obviously determined to remain rooted to the spot until the last moment . |
| 24 | In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate . |
| 25 | However , the claim begins to look exaggerated in the context of the causes of the growth ; in particular , the contracting out of services from the productive industries . |
| 26 | In one instance a picture lent from Czechoslovakia to Cologne was prevented from returning because of a claim to title made by the former owner 's heir . |
| 27 | This beautifully illustrated book provides information on some of the best garden plants to grow based on the experience of these two renowned gardeners . |
| 28 | Roughly , unilateralism provides that the plaintiff must win if he or she has a right to win established in the explicit extension of some legal convention , but that otherwise the defendant must win . |
| 29 | But the Bill provides room for manoeuvring — and perhaps an indefinite delay — by allowing the government to choose an ‘ appropriate time to proceed based on the state 's financial abilities ’ . |
| 30 | It is also important not to remain tied to the investment made in an old system . |