Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wood was loosely stacked to provide the rabbits with temporary cover until such time as they enlarged the burrows themselves . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although development work on this discovery continued , it was a process called Lime Soda softening which was commercially developed to overcome the problems of hard water . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 10 | Repayment could be timed to smooth out the boom-slump cycle which was widely expected to follow the war . |
| 11 | True , some of these seem expressly designed to bring the country into confrontation with America . |
| 12 | Long hair has been delicately feathered to frame the face . |
| 13 | Even more profound changes happened in the internal structures of the brachiopods , partly those concerned with supporting the lophophore — these changed from simple loops to complex ‘ doubled back ’ structures , or to fantastic spirals and whorls — all presumably designed to increase the ways of food-gathering , and its efficiency . |
| 14 | Hour by hour , they were of course sizing things up : nobody was better placed to judge the feeling in the House . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Kingfisher 's 700-plus Woolworth outlets and the Superdrug chain are better placed to weather the slowdown . |
| 17 | The big companies will also be better placed to finance the development of new technologies , turning this traditionally low-tech industry into something closer to chemical engineering . |
| 18 | Nobody is better placed to understand the pain and loneliness of the stand-up comic better than Steve Martin . |
| 19 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 20 | A man better placed to gain the support of the Visigoths was Avitus , praetorian prefect of Gaul from 439 . |
| 21 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 22 | Holding the mussel with both forefeet , it begins pounding it on the rock until it is sufficiently broken to allow the otter to extract the flesh with its teeth . |
| 23 | On the hundredth day of world peace all the ‘ a little bothered and regretful ’ , people all gathered to hear the oration by the pioneer of world peace , commemorating this historic day . |
| 24 | The proposal , described in the report as " unprecedented " , was apparently intended to signal the Hinduja 's long-term confidence in the Indian economy . |
| 25 | The fights were playful , obviously intended to goad the police . |
| 26 | If the posts are only intended to curve the back , this can be better achieved by planing a curve on to the struts before they are glued to the back . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Moreover in all the circumstances the power which the landlord insisted upon to deprive the applicants of exclusive occupation was a pretence only intended to deprive the applicants of the protection of the Rent Acts . |
| 28 | They are soon disabused by their fellow students , and in ways which are not necessarily calculated to soothe the individual 's amour propre . |
| 29 | However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) . |
| 30 | The C&G claims the cash distribution is merely designed to bring the reserves of the two societies in line . |