Example sentences of "[noun] to [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 2 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 3 | This gave them the key to predicting both the location and approximate intensity of the earthquakes , with a delay of between 7 and 11 hours from the prediction to the event . |
| 4 | It was the historic moment when the rule of the people , the idea of democracy , was seen as the only legitimate form of government and as the key to sweeping away the rule of individual despots and arrogant oligarchies , and when articulate voices were not afraid to proclaim their faith in the virtues and good judgement of the people as a whole . |
| 5 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 6 | As an aid to training both the new and upgrade user , Adobe have repeated their inclusion of a video which both demonstrates features and provides a basic tutorial . |
| 7 | Federal law was always superior to Länder law and the Länder were restricted in many areas to carrying out the policies of the Bonn government . |
| 8 | The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture . |
| 9 | Whatever the reasons for their change from their nautiloid ancestors , the ammonoids were an enormously successful group : thousands of different species have been described , and their variety is so bewildering that many specialists devote their lives to studying only the ammonoids of a particular , short time period . |
| 10 | An added incentive to tracking down the railways is that they are invariably in rural France , away from the speeding motorway traffic . |
| 11 | Further , there is a significant grief reaction to giving up the substance or process of addiction itself . |
| 12 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 13 | Third , the particular reputational approach used by Hunter presupposed that which remained to be proven — that there is a group of forty people in whose hands power in Atlanta is concentrated — by devoting all his efforts to finding out the names of people who appear to belong to this elite . |
| 14 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 15 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 16 | And the final year of the company 's three-year commitment to cleaning up the Alaskan coast is about to begin . |
| 17 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 18 | The point is that preference rules give a justification for choosing any well-formed grouping structure which the circumstances of the text seem to warrant ; they provide a guide to weighing up the various claims of syntax , informational focus , prosodic shape and so on . |
| 19 | There is growing opposition in Germany to giving up the deutschmark without any real return in political union , which Chancellor Kohl had said was a precondition of moving to a single currency . |
| 20 | In addition to criminalizing both the practice and receipt of abortions , the law also made the provision of information concerning abortion a crime punishable by up to one year 's imprisonment . |
| 21 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 22 | In addition to tightening up the compulsory admission and detention procedures , the new Act tries to deal with the difficult issue of consent to treatment . |
| 23 | For Islington this meant that in addition to taking over the day-to-day running and management of the pre-school , school and adult educational facilities in its area , the borough had to provide resources in areas previously funded by ILEA , London-wide . |
| 24 | In addition to weighing up the results and achievements of the coach 's pupils , the Institute also judges nominees on their standards of personal and professional behaviour , which reflect on the whole practice of coaching and the sport itself . |
| 25 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 26 | Since seals , dolphins and porpoises can cause severe damage to fishermen 's nets in addition to scaring away the fish , the fishing industry have recently taken to playing underwater recordings of the Killer whale near salmon and pilchard nets to keep away such marauders . |
| 27 | Carole and her American , jazz-loving husband Allan enjoy meeting their guests and are keen to give advice on anything from milking a cow to pointing out the best walks available . |
| 28 | Gysin , who exhibited with the Surrealists at the tender age of 19 , dedicated his life to breaking down the barriers between painting and writing . |
| 29 | The management approach to setting up the system is important . |
| 30 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |