Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 2 | Section 309(1) of the Companies Act 1985 provides that ‘ [ t ] he matters to which the directors of the company are to have regard in the performance of their functions include the interests of the company 's employees in general , as well as the interests of its members ’ . |
| 3 | For very distant objects these stars themselves are too faint to be visible , but if you look at clusters of galaxies , we find that the very brightest galaxy in a cluster is the same brightness in all clusters and so the fainter it looks to us the further away the cluster of galaxies must be . |
| 4 | The initial check , Gilmont says , is designed to determine if the bill is coherent ; if in fact , it belongs to the bank , and if it shows an amount that corresponds to what the bank expected to be billed . |
| 5 | This corresponds to what the Court of Appeal had evolved in its sentencing practices as the spontaneous kind of affray , which did not necessarily attract particularly |
| 6 | Because — no harm in saying it once again — this is the essence of the private-eye novel : that its hero actively goes out and grabs to himself the facts that he needs . |
| 7 | From 1771 onwards a series of codes for different provinces , beginning with Silesia , had set for the first time clear official limits to what the lords could demand of their peasants , especially in terms of labour-services . |
| 8 | His honest suffering reveals to her the nobility of selfless love and the truth of language which is metaphoric yet direct . |
| 9 | Forced to depart from Suxavat by its apocalyptic destruction , Urim 's final journey to the Andes reveals to him the mirror-image of the Hindu Kush of his origins . |
| 10 | This fascinating display holds , and reveals to you the vital spirit which eventually triumphed in 1945 . |
| 11 | Because the object of contemplation is God himself , who opens to us the infinite possibilities of himself and of our own lives . |
| 12 | But these are some of the things , faith opens to us the door to every blessing that is ours in Christ . |
| 13 | takes to itself the sunset 's sweet sauterne |
| 14 | It is found experimentally that practical materials " remember previous deformations to which they have been subjected … stress depends on … strains to which the material was subjected at all times up to and including t " ( Lockett 1973 ) . |
| 15 | Such accommodation responds to what the speaker mistakenly assumes will be the addressee 's speech on the basis of the addressee 's non-speech attributes . " |
| 16 | Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour . |
| 17 | They are prevented from entering what appears to them the more appealing world of work , a world in which they can earn independence and the goods that money can buy . |
| 18 | That they will take all reasonable steps to advise the Society whenever they are notified of a claim arising under a policy to which this Agreement applies to which the cost of settlement is likely to exceed $1,000 . |
| 19 | Parajournalism , creating to one side of the actual , seems to me the nub here . |
| 20 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 21 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems to me the whole set-up is racist , ’ said Robyn . |
| 23 | ‘ When I say to people that Edward Wood [ Irwin 's name before his ennoblement on appointment to the viceroyalty ] seems to me the highest kind of Englishman now in politics , many of them ’ , Begbie admitted , ‘ look surprised and perplexed . ’ |
| 24 | So , as an all-rounder that can cope with fingerpicking , strumming and solo work , the ultra-responsive D-18 seems to me the runaway winner ; but as a pure rhythm/accompaniment instrument , the D-32 perhaps just nicks the biscuit . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 26 | He also said : ‘ It seems to me the Press have a powerfully destructive herd instinct , which I believe will be their undoing . |
| 27 | When a mother 's face does not reflect a meaningful world of which the baby is a part — as it seems to me the face of a woman in pain can not — then what results is ‘ a threat of chaos and the baby will organise withdrawal , or will not look except to perceive as a defence . |
| 28 | To make this claim plausible — a claim which , it seems to me , lies in a grey zone between the conceptual and the empirical — I wish first to offer what seems to me the most likely account of the evolution of syntactic structure . |
| 29 | It seems to me the only thing to do . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It is not who governs , ’ contends Hayek , ‘ but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem . ’ |