Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might rarely want to roll the treble off the neck pickup , but you can take treble off the bridge pickup , if it 's a little hairy for you , and still be sure of a full-treble sound on the neck pickup when you hit the switch hard left . |
| 2 | Besides helping to unravel the myriad interactions between adolescent development and social and occupational structures , the initiative will also be seeking answers to practical policy questions in the fields of education , training and employment . |
| 3 | The army sets out on its way to France , and Roland is duly posted to lead the rear , together with the flower of Charlemagne 's feudatories , the twelve peers of France . |
| 4 | These proposals for ‘ top-down ’ changes , which effectively sought to redraw the service boundaries , would probably achieve little , however , unless the real operational problems of delivering the service to individual clients were also tackled . |
| 5 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |
| 6 | IF ENGLAND fail to win the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Cricket Trophy — the grand title ( which is accompanied by the unofficial suffix of ‘ Mini World Cup ’ ) presumably intended to persuade the public that they are about to witness something cosmic rather than just another one-day tournament — it will not be because of being under-prepared . |
| 7 | The real-time board computer is presumably intended to supersede the company 's HP1000 technical and industrial minis , though it does n't say so . |
| 8 | They 'd badly want to find the car to forestall any possible inquiries about an abandoned vehicle , and to remove all evidence of my presence . |
| 9 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 10 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 11 | If it accepts , it thereby agrees to purchase the item for cash from the trader and at the same time agrees to transfer it on hire-purchase terms to the customer . |
| 12 | He spoke on the evils of race and colour prejudice and he rarely failed to mention the issue of slavery . |
| 13 | Ungar and his group went on to endeavour to purify the component in the brain extract which , they claimed , carried the information about fear of the dark ’ . |
| 14 | They receive a rapturous reception , which is as it should be : here , after all , are the players who have lost just one league game in the previous fifteen months , the players who are widely expected to terrify the rest of the continent in the European Cup , the team with the best strike force and the meanest defence in the First Division . |
| 15 | The move is widely expected to see the society — which is currently a tied agent of Standard Life for the sale of investments — reviewing the options for starting its own life-assurance operation . |
| 16 | Repayment could be timed to smooth out the boom-slump cycle which was widely expected to follow the war . |
| 17 | The competition lacked the prestige of the League Championship , and its future looked uncertain as one club after another abandoned it by successfully applying to enter the Football League — Bristol City in 1901 , Chelsea in 1905 , Fulham in 1907 and Tottenham in 1908 . |
| 18 | Some Italian once wrote that the critic secretly wants to kill the writer . |
| 19 | He badly wants to complete the task and continues hoping to pick up more lift on the way . |
| 20 | However , it may form the basis of a new approach to problems in which lawyers and advisers will not seek to establish the legal nature of the problem and then find the relevant law , but will rather seek to establish the nature of the problem and then contemplate whether any part of the law might be relevant . |
| 21 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 22 | True , some of these seem expressly designed to bring the country into confrontation with America . |
| 23 | Long hair has been delicately feathered to frame the face . |
| 24 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 25 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 26 | We will go further , and will create a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency to bring together powers to ensure the quality of our air , rivers and bathing waters . |
| 27 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 28 | Hour by hour , they were of course sizing things up : nobody was better placed to judge the feeling in the House . |
| 29 | The new centralised system will also be better placed to improve the quality of the figures , which seems to have deteriorated sharply in recent years . |
| 30 | Kingfisher 's 700-plus Woolworth outlets and the Superdrug chain are better placed to weather the slowdown . |