Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has to fact the threat of potential domestic unrest as the IMF structural economic reform programme it has adopted begins to bite . |
| 2 | Then it has to decide if it actually wants to shrink-wrap the stuff , and finally whether to go ahead and put together a marketing and distribution effort for the completed product . |
| 3 | The person who needs to unblock the money is not a member of the Government but Commissioner Millan . |
| 4 | All of these features have combined to create the contemporary problem ; hooliganism exemplifies to perfection the difficulty of disentangling what is new from what is old in social history . |
| 5 | All of these features have combined to create the contemporary problem ; hooliganism exemplifies to perfection the difficulty of disentangling what is new from what is old in social history . |
| 6 | No no y No nobody 's thought of it until I stood there and watched it and I says to George the operator , I says , Right we 're gon na put a new chiller on here . |
| 7 | But he confirmed that the Government plans to changes the rules covering attendance allowances to increase the number of those terminally ill who can claim it . |
| 8 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 9 | More extraordinary is another letter preserved in the Epistulae Austrasiacae , in which Theudebert describes to Justinian the extent of his hegemony , which , he said , stretched from Visigothic Spain to Thuringia , and from the North Sea to the Danube and Pannonia . |
| 10 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 11 | In particular , as δ tends to unity the above implies that approaches zero if and approaches infinity if . |
| 12 | As ta ; tends to unity the types become progressively more far sighted , so to ensure that it is still not worth engaging in the permanent imitation of z = 0 the benefits from following the equilibrium strategy are increased . |
| 13 | The rumour and gossip which often tends to overexcite the male patients we leniently designate as latrine talk . |
| 14 | This film documentary has a little of that flavour , but chooses to showcase the songs and monumental sights instead — rolling rock video as opposed to a study of the rich culture clash that later flourished in the fine ‘ Diesel And Dust ’ LP . |
| 15 | It intends to demo the stuff at NeXt World next week and then sell them separate from NeXtstep . |
| 16 | Hussein in The Languages of Love is a Muslim , yet it is he who reveals to Julia the beauty of genuine love expressed in honest language which leads her to convert to Catholicism . |
| 17 | Drama quickly reveals to children the effectiveness of language , building up their language resources and allowing them to develop an awareness of a whole range of linguistic choices and registers . |
| 18 | In this search the closer one gets to home the more difficult it becomes . |
| 19 | Although a firm 's value might rise as it borrows more , the closer it gets to bankruptcy the higher will be its cost of borrowing . |
| 20 | Natural rebels , backed up with the guts it takes to buck the system . |
| 21 | The same applies to Penny the payroll lady . |
| 22 | Meanwhile The Counterlife attributes to Henry the verdict that ‘ exploiting and distorting family secrets was my brother 's livelihood ’ . |
| 23 | In All 's Well that Ends Well Parolles ' use of verse seems to have connotations of falseness , as when he relays to Helena the news that Bertram is leaving Rossillion without consummating their marriage . |
| 24 | John turns to Andy the Mouse . |
| 25 | By the time Compass goes to press the limestone gymnasium at Upper Pen Trwyn will once again be open for arm pumps . |
| 26 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 27 | The cam lever goes to C. The side levers position themselves — they 're not under the knitter 's control . |
| 28 | In the original version , now lost , of the chapter in which she reads to Raskolnikov the gospel story of the raising of Lazarus , Dostoevsky intended and wrote a head-on debate about Christianity ; but his publishers refused to print it . |
| 29 | Thus they have provided evidence that helps to date the eruption of Thera ( modern Santorini ) which virtually destroyed the Minoan town of Akrotiri in the seventeenth century BC . |
| 30 | In the absence of P , it has a shape which enables it to bind to S and convert it into A. However , a P molecule can also bind to the enzyme , typically at a site different from S. When it does so , it alters the shape of the enzyme so that it no longer binds to S. The binding of P to the enzyme is non-covalent , and hence readily reversible . |