Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 2 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 3 | The Project 's approach has been to build up the confidence and self-awareness of different groups to a stage where contact and co-operation among them will be facilitated . |
| 4 | The second purpose of the Lecture has been to bring out the need to consider a complete ‘ package ’ of tax changes . |
| 5 | What in fact they want is to find out the basis upon which the plaintiff is making the claim , to tie the plaintiff down to a particular set of allegations before the engineer goes in . |
| 6 | through , through the system , but what that ca n't do is to pull off the arrears amount . |
| 7 | When I talk about implementation of the Maastricht treaty I mean that one of the things that must be done is to set up the arrangements agreed at Maastricht by which member states can be taken to the European Court and punished if they do not carry out obligations that they have assumed . |
| 8 | All you need to do is to draw up the pattern shapes to full size on to brown paper and use this as a pattern for your cloth . |
| 9 | The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page . |
| 10 | All you have to do is to fill in the details , including your name and address and the amount you wish to give , and sign and date the document in front of a witness . |
| 11 | Well I think what we want to do is to find out the truth from the hype and the emotion , that is what we want to establish and I 'm sure we will correct it if there is any injustice . |
| 12 | No no no what what Can I can I just say well I 'm What what the treasurer of an event like this needs to do is to note down the source of the cash he receives , to note where it 's coming from different products , how much is being received from that |
| 13 | What well mainly what what is the I mean , these thinner ones , presumably they would do the job as well as I do n't know I mean , it 's keeping out What I want to do is to keep out the sun . |
| 14 | When I yeah when I was commercial manager for er one of the things that I was given the job to do was to sort out the company 's buying . |
| 15 | All you had to do was to hold up the negotiations until I got desperate and then bully me into authorizing the Japanese deal on the pretext of raising money to pay for my release ! |
| 16 | The woman had no rights in the matter , for by Jesus 's time all the man had to do was to write out the words ‘ I divorce you ’ and the divorce was effected . |
| 17 | In fact the only way to find out just how much space you 're going to get is to fill up the hard disk , but because disk compressors need some room to work , this is n't a particularly healthy idea . |
| 18 | Another lesson Computercraft learned was to sort out the politics before getting started . |
| 19 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 20 | One of the first steps taken was to set up the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme ( EMEP ) to measure emissions and deposition of sulphur and nitrogen oxides in Europe . |
| 21 | What we intend is to take up the area of ground you now have roped off , or a part of it — the broken corner of the hypocaust . ’ |
| 22 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 23 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 24 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 25 | The aim of successive American administrations had been to build up the strength of the most vulnerable states in the area — those known until the Second World War as French Indo-China and later divided into the separate states of Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . |
| 26 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 27 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 28 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 29 | The well-planned research will not present difficulties at the analysis stage , since the purpose of the answers will have been thought of in advance , and all the analysis really does is to fill in the details . |
| 30 | All this achieved was to take on the even more serious problems of behaviourism itself . |