Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The long , surprisingly thick mid-mounted wing , a legacy of the Fouga company 's glider-producing background , should endow low induced drag , although the myriad accessory-cooling slots and intakes on the engine casing and odd lumps and bumps of antennas on the aft body must dirty the otherwise-clean tandem configuration .
2 As a result , an alumina implant can shield the surrounding bone from the stresses generated by normal activity , and the bone loses the stimulation which is necessary for it to remain healthy .
3 The disruption to the shipping and insurance markets is expected to be limited but British Telecom moved quickly to restore services and provide the affected companies with links to ensure that callers could dial the usual numbers .
4 In England , the reluctance of the police to take action in domestic violence cases has contributed to a situation in which women do not generally invoke the criminal process in such circumstances .
5 And England boss Graham Taylor has already warned that he would invoke the six-day release rule if the game is played this weekend .
6 For example will invoke the CLI command file " filename " .
7 For example , the following command will invoke the CLI command file whose name is held in the variable " fname$ " .
8 For example , the following command will invoke the CLI command file " prntr.cli " and execute it , instigating the redirection which it sets up .
9 Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " .
10 However with respect to the ground for invalidity which is most pertinent to the community interest , conflict with a norm of jus cogens , only the ‘ parties to a dispute ’ can invoke the special procedure in Article 66 ( a ) , although that procedure is compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice .
11 Pauline actually helped design the new chair .
12 The designer uses the o to help design the other letters : first to define the shoulder of the n ; from that , the h .
13 Do n't be too proud to have a designer come and help design the basic pages you need .
14 We will design the full ad for them if they want at no extra cost .
15 Paul had been a real find so far , and she knew it would do his professional standing a lot of good if he could design the whole hotel complex .
16 This form of aggression , if not leading to an outright kill , can easily stress the attacked coral or anemone and cause them to bleach and eventually die .
17 I would also stress the absolute undesirability of the court making an order which may have the effect of compelling a doctor or health authority to make available scarce resources ( both human and material ) to a particular child , without knowing whether or not there are other patients to whom those resources might more advantageously be devoted .
18 Humankind and the apes shared the vertebrate form because both were created by God , but Owen could stress the anatomical differences in order to make it clear that the one could never have evolved from the other .
19 In fairness to its selectors one must stress the virtual absence of any important body of writing expressing an alternative Left viewpoint .
20 It is therefore not surprising that he should here stress the psychological aspects of pain and its control rather than the nuts and bolts of nociceptors , unmyelinated afferents , spinothalamic tracts and those splendid phrases designed to send medical students back to sleep in the belief that they now understand pain mechanisms .
21 They would stress the doctrinal fluidity within some , if not all , Protestant movements and the absence of a mechanism of censorship as centralized or as effective as that supervised by the Holy Office in Rome .
22 Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ?
23 First , we would stress the immense size of the resource .
24 You see , by starting with it you emphasise the wholly hopeful , optimistic expectations the words imply and then , by ending with it , you can stress the double-edged sword quality : the irony .
25 To connect these two points , I would stress the obvious point which may be forgotten when one simply looks at the fortunes of particular party organizations .
26 If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons .
27 Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities .
28 These subtleties of the war did not entirely evade the British public .
29 Even private and personal information can evade the conscious controls or natural brakes , and an individual 's subconscious will transmit information that the conscious mind would otherwise never dream of releasing .
30 He replied that an army of 5–6000 men might still successfully evade the Royal Navy and descend anywhere on the coast , so that the nation needed a minimum of 18,000 under arms , one-third to protect London , another third distributed throughout the country to crush any supporting rebellions , and the final third to provide a strategic reserve — an admirable analysis of the problem .
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