Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system of the citizens filling offices by random rotation , and of having the right to take part in the assembly , meant that Athens between , say 462 and 322 , came as near as any community ever has to achieving the democratic ideal of government by the people themselves , through citizen participation , rather than the modern substitutes of representation or even delegation . |
| 2 | Faced with this problem , Lawrenson and Kingham ( 1974 ) chose to minimise the integral-with-time-of-absolute-error ( ITAE ) , which corresponds to minimising the area shown in Fig. 4.12 . |
| 3 | The three-dimensional picture roughly corresponds to rotating the bow shock and magnetopause around the direction along which the solar wind blows outward from the Sun . |
| 4 | Just as the Fourier transform defined by equation ( 11.11 ) involves analysing the signal F(t) in terms of an infinite set of imaginary exponential terms , that is , in terms of infinite sets of sine and cosine waves , so the Laplace transform defined by equations ( 11.18 ) and ( 11.19 ) corresponds to analysing the signal in terms of an infinite set of functions of the form where s is complex . |
| 5 | She wants to joins the Wrens . |
| 6 | It claims that the IAEA : ( i ) colluded with the Soviet authorities in concealing the true impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 and failed to respond to warnings that foreshadowed disaster ; ( ii ) failed to prevent the diversion by the Iraqi government of enriched uranium from French and Soviet civilian programmes for military purposes ; ( iii ) refuses to tackled the issue of the transport of nuclear waste across national boundaries ; and ( iv ) encourages the dumping of radioactive waste in Africa and other developing countries . |
| 7 | The most modest proposal would be to place a cash limit on all the non-structural tax allowances ( that is , on all other than the personal allowances ) and to couple this policy to a commitment to use the increase in tax revenue which results to reducing the rate of tax and increasing child benefit . |
| 8 | Beresford identifies three models or approaches to hearing the voice of the consumer . |
| 9 | The first stage is to develop wholehearted , positive attitudes and approaches to selling the subject in the curricular market place of the 1990s . |
| 10 | My third point is to remind you that fixing a criterion for non-intervention amounts to setting the moral agenda for the treatment of VLBW babies . |
| 11 | It amounts to telling the reader that if he has a bet today , he might win , which remains true whether he bets or not , and if he does , whether he wins or not . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection ( 1 ) above , where a person , having possession or control ( lawfully or not ) of property belonging to another , parts with the property under a condition as to its return which he may not be able to perform , this ( if done for purposes of his own and without the other 's authority ) amounts to treating the property as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights . |
| 13 | Section 6(2) states : … where a person , having possession or control ( lawfully or not ) of property belonging to another , parts with the property under a condition as to its return which he may not be able to perform this ( if done for purposes of his own and without the other 's authority ) amounts to treating the property as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights . |
| 14 | Pushed to the limit it leads to splitting the world into a racialized opposition between goodies and baddies . |
| 15 | This view has come under criticism from some commentators ( Navarro , 1976 ; Doyal 1979 ) since , they claim , it leads to treating the causes of ill-health as being individual , requiring individually orientated therapeutic responses or prevention through individuals changing their own way of life . |
| 16 | The manual job thus reduces to filling the carousel with panels or sub-assemblies every 20 minutes or so , and is of course only loosely machine paced . |
| 17 | The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers , and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet . |
| 18 | Whether natural or learned , we would concur with the importance Eraut attaches to understanding the process of change and the factors that facilitate or constrain it . |
| 19 | More political clout attaches to cutting the ribbon on one big factory ( or on grandiose developments like the Renaissance Centre ) than on sponsoring 1,000 small businesses . |
| 20 | In the same interview from which I quoted , Mr. Bickerstaffe went on to repeat the high priority that NUPE attaches to increasing the minimum wage — a proposal which the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) has already said would cost the NHS between £400 million and £500 million . |
| 21 | The same applies to fulfilling the goal , worthwhile in itself to many , of merely having men in space . |
| 22 | The same applies to answering the phone , writing a report or scheduling his diary . |
| 23 | This principle applies to understanding the brain , in two quite different senses . |
| 24 | That hospitality even stretchs to helping the guests celebrate special dates . |
| 25 | Sensing refers to receiving the information . |
| 26 | ‘ Income shares ’ refers to influencing the share of National Income so that various quantiles in the distribution , e.g. the bottom 20 per cent , must have at least ( say ) 10 per cent of the income . |
| 27 | In this context , the word ‘ conception ’ refers to an idea that is novel with respect to some frame of reference ( individual , departmental , organizational , or all accumulated knowledge ) ; the word ‘ invention ’ applies to any novel idea that is transformed into reality ; and the word ‘ exploitation ’ refers to getting the most out of an invention . |
| 28 | It refers to exploring the scope for reducing , or eliminating , duplication of efforts and resources . |
| 29 | The term rectification refers to rendering the alternating current or potential difference unidirectional through removing or reversing it whenever it is one of its two possible polarities . |
| 30 | Gordon Greenidge gives a perfect demonstration of the square cut , generating power with the right leg as the body goes to met the ball . |