Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 2 | So what has to happen , ideally , is that your detective must learn piece by piece things which will eventually make the answer to the fundamental puzzle clear . |
| 3 | If these manoeuvres were successful , the whole might of Russia could then be redeployed for an attack on central Germany , thereby bringing the war to an end . |
| 4 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 5 | Someone had earlier likened the whole sorting process to sifting sand for gold , so we hoped we had struck gold in the Afghan desert , but sadly , a scholar at the National Library eventually pronounced the signature to be that of another Churchill ! |
| 6 | The participants talked in abstract and theoretical terms , rarely relating the subject to the listeners ' experience . |
| 7 | Dulles precipitated the crisis by peremptorily withdrawing US financial aid for the Aswan Dam , thereby opening the door to the flow of Eastern Bloc arms and influence into the Middle East — the very situation that he had feared British colonial obduracy would create . |
| 8 | I put the mink coat on a chair and retraced my journey , locking the door again and eventually returning the key to Mercer who nodded without speech and put it in his pocket . |
| 9 | It was Aggie who now rose first from her chair and so bringing the conversation to an end by saying , ‘ Well , ma'am , I thank you for your hospitality , and also for your kindness to the child . |
| 10 | The main consideration with envelopes is that they should be large enough and strong enough to accommodate the material to be contained within them . |
| 11 | Initially it was planned to have two mid-mounted eight-cylinder 1,000 hp automobile engines driving two scimitar-shaped multi-bladed pusher propellers located aft of the tailplanes , but this arrangement has been dropped in favour of mounting the propellers on pylons above the wing trailing-edges apparently to enable the racer to be float-equipped for an attempt at the six-decades-old world airspeed record for seaplanes . |
| 12 | Each day , while you are bathing , soap the pumice stone and gently rub the area to be treated . |
| 13 | I ask it to do so to enable the Bill to be revived in the form — |
| 14 | The Government should be fighting hard , especially given the importance to the economy generally , and of jobs in particular , to ensure that the bank 's location is established even as the European monetary institute is established . |
| 15 | Arthur Mailey , whose skill and amiable manner attracted F–S to cricket , was later to write that by F–S 's standards , other spin bowlers were merely allowing the ball to ‘ slip from their fingers ’ . |
| 16 | Are the indicators of success precise enough to enable the achievement to be assessed with considerable certainty ? |
| 17 | ‘ Following the failure of the stabiliser rear spar top chord , the structure could not sustain the flight loads imposed upon it long enough to enable the failure to be detected by the then existing inspection schedule . |
| 18 | The job has to be at a senior enough level and it has to be constrained enough to enable the job to be searched . |
| 19 | The opinion poll , carried out by The Northern shows that 15.3pc of the town 's electorate are still unsure how they will vote on Thursday enough to swing the result to either Conservative or Labour . |
| 20 | These scents not only communicate the alarm to the rest of the herd but may also produce an aerial trail which other impala can follow without having to break their flight to sniff the ground . |
| 21 | Eventually I felt strong enough to write the truth to Margaret . |
| 22 | When Radek divided world literature into three camps , " the literature of decaying capitalism , inevitably evolving towards fascism , the new proletarian literature , and the literature of the wavering elements " , he merely underlined the extent to which cultural activity in the 1930s had become subordinated to ideological objectives . |
| 23 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 24 | In speech , lacking these devices , we naturally expect the prosody to be called into play — but we must beware that we do not exaggerate its role . |
| 25 | When first setting out for Basle , he had expressed the conviction that his grasp of life 's " true and essential problems " was already strong enough to meet the threat to his " philosophic sense " posed by academic specialization . |
| 26 | The brewer must now extract these sugars by adding more hot water and so transfers the mash to a mash-tun . |
| 27 | She looked down at the sandal and with one worn finger gently moved the heel to and fro on its fragile shred of skin . |
| 28 | He alone has the right to , for he alone enjoys the intimate relation of sonship with God the Father . |
| 29 | On June 28 the congress proclaimed the Crimea to be " the national territory of the Crimean Tatar nation , on which it alone has the right to self-determination " . |
| 30 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |