Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [noun] 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 | WHEN Capenhurst employees raised money 16 years ago to send cerebral palsy sufferer Alan Barnes to America for treatment , they little realised the heights to which he would rise . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 6 | An ‘ ideator ’ is a prolific idea generator who , by definition , does not like to ‘ reduce ideas to practice ’ ( i.e. make a prototype ) , but would rather restrict the ideas to the realm of mental gymnastics . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | The participants talked in abstract and theoretical terms , rarely relating the subject to the listeners ' experience . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They overwhelmingly reported the roads to be more difficult to cross than five years previously , the change being ascribed to increased volumes of traffic ( 89 per cent ) and faster traffic ( 28 per cent ) . |
| 12 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The main consideration with envelopes is that they should be large enough and strong enough to accommodate the material to be contained within them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Each day , while you are bathing , soap the pumice stone and gently rub the area to be treated . |
| 17 | I ask it to do so to enable the Bill to be revived in the form — |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Are the indicators of success precise enough to enable the achievement to be assessed with considerable certainty ? |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | The job has to be at a senior enough level and it has to be constrained enough to enable the job to be searched . |
| 23 | Critics of the plan , including World Wide Fund for Nature experts , argue that such a move would only expose the rhinos to greater danger . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The paper is clipped together by firm bulldog clips at the top edge of the required piece of hardboard , so allowing the charts to be turned over in an upwards direction . |
| 27 | Eventually I felt strong enough to write the truth to Margaret . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 30 | 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 . |