Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides helping to understand the primary events of photosynthesis , Tien envisages his thin films could be biomimetic solar energy transducers . |
| 2 | In early March the Foreign Minister , Jiri Dienstbier , had also declared that his country would eventually want to join the European Communities . |
| 3 | The cover-design is presumably intended to encapsulate the Labour Party 's interpretation of citizenship . |
| 4 | In the museum display of these materials ( such as the treasures of Tutankhamun 's tomb ) , stress may be laid on the objects ' discovery by British archaeologists , thereby helping to legitimize the implicit pseudo-evolutionary claims of historical advance as civilization ( Gidri 1974 ) . |
| 5 | Thus we want to see the representational role of the newly juxtaposed elements as recognisably preserved within , and thereby helping to determine the new representational role of , the new signal in which they occur . |
| 6 | Over half the issues of British public libraries can be ascribed to recreational reading , although — as will be seen — public libraries are rarely arranged to suit the recreational approach . |
| 7 | Rowan Martin , who had worked for 20 years with the department , had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director of the department , until his arrest in mid-1992 on corruption charges , on which he was later exonerated . |
| 8 | In 1964 , although widely expected to reach the higher echelons of the Army , Winchester retired at his own request and settled in Kenya , where he kept dairy cattle on a farm outside Nairobi . |
| 9 | Sotheby 's will sell another Picasso on 15 November — Au Lapin Agile , from the Pink period — which is widely expected to break the previous price records . |
| 10 | Political sources said that Mitterrand loyalists were already in touch with Gaullist Edouard Balladur , 63 , widely expected to head the next government , to discuss the handover from the present prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy . |
| 11 | In Doyle 's experience it rarely helped to develop the human side of the ‘ rehabilitated ’ man . |
| 12 | Conversely , projects which encourage a caring attitude in boys and acceptance of ‘ non-macho ’ traits would presumably act to deflect the automatic expression of male toughness or aggression although it is always possible that hostility to the course itself could provoke even more of a ‘ male backlash ’ . |
| 13 | He then twice conspired to overthrow the junta , and is unofficially considered to head the paramilitary death squad , the White Warrior Union . |
| 14 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 15 | This even applies to listed buildings : there is still a worryingly widespread general belief that listing only covers the facade , or perhaps just the exterior , whereas it is of course expressly designed to protect the whole building . |
| 16 | They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District . |
| 17 | In the promotion of rapid industrialization , the Japanese state fostered the growth of large organizations which would be better placed to resist the intense competition of Western companies . |
| 18 | The fact that the South East contains a disproportionately high number of professional and managerial inhabitants , that transportation is generally quicker and easier because of the flatter terrain , and that industry and population from London have been relocated to surrounding satellite towns have all conspired to spread the ex-urban population far out into the metropolitan hinterland . |
| 19 | The most stupefying performance , however , came from Cecilia Gasdia , a voice of evidently limited power ( the second part , made up of arias , showed her physical limitations , notably in ‘ D'amor al dolce impero ’ from Tancredi ) , but her dash , her sinewy vocalization , her miraculous phrasing , the skill with which she marshalled the resources of her voice , all conspired to make the first half ( La Separazione , Mi lagnerò tacendo , Bolero above all ) a miraculous experience . |
| 20 | The initial storyline came from Terry Nation , but as an amusement for themselves the two writers took it in turns to write the detailed story breakdowns , each leaving an impossible cliff-hanger which the other writer had to get out of . |
| 21 | Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions . |
| 22 | Just as surely the sponsors will only want to pay the best and the number of highly paid players may fall . |
| 23 | The move was apparently intended to deflect the current wave of protests , increasingly directed at Ratsiraka personally as the 16-party opposition Comité de forces vives coalition pressed for his resignation . |
| 24 | The guarantee only agrees to re-treat the affected areas — it does not guarantee that the problem will not recur . |
| 25 | Yet they obviously failed to grasp the political and administrative realities within which state medicine was increasingly caught in the 1870s and 1880s . |
| 26 | Confronted with data of the following sort , an extract from a private diary only intended to remind the elderly writer of how she passed a day in January 1982 , the discourse analyst may not be able to proceed very far in his analysis . |
| 27 | Notice that the language discussed here is only intended to describe the individual states and the goal of the task , and the conditions for applying operators . |
| 28 | YOP was only intended to help the unemployed and those who had difficulty in finding jobs — the disadvantaged . |
| 29 | A true mystical experience is not only intended to make the adept less egotistic but it should also make him more alert and help him to function better . |
| 30 | All the methods in the booklet are only intended to supplement the chemical analysis of water and sediments . |