Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if our estimates , say for the marginal to consume or the incoming elasticity of demand , right if our estimates are based on a regression in which the real or the underlying marginal propensity to consume or income elasticity demand is varying from plus four to minus two , you know , is our point test generate from , from regression analysis they are going to be completely meaningless . |
| 2 | There is a component of the overtone , and this component must have mixed with the fundamental to produce two bands of similar intensity , each being more-or-less half fundamental and half overtone . |
| 3 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 4 | One incidental result of this was that Indirect Rule , the proud and mysterious creation of innumerable men-on-the-spot , upon which it was forbidden to the uninitiated to look , was transformed after years of scrutiny by metropolitan experts into a uniform system of local government , whereby Britain hoped to bring into the orbit of her unresented influence the non-traditional elements which had made their appearance in African society . |
| 5 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
| 6 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 7 | To the north , ( that is , to the left when viewing from the square ) of Santo Stefano is the sanctuary church of San Bernardino , together with an ossuary , built in the twelfth-century to minister to patients of , and to take the dead from , the local hospitals . |
| 8 | On the other side , across a narrow lane called Watergate , is the original Bishop 's Palace , built in the twelfth-century to provide accommodation for the splendid new cathedral . |
| 9 | As well as the fairly conventional scales we have seen so far , Joe also uses a couple of the more exotic types , such as the Hungarian minor , which is like a harmonic minor scale with a lowered 5th , and the very unusual Enigmatic scale ( listen to The Enigmatic to hear this . |
| 10 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 11 | To listen to the French to say non . |
| 12 | Finally it must be remembered that , at this stage , the majority of the Cossacks still had no inkling of the preparations that were being made by the British to hand them back . |
| 13 | The British response was to blockade the main French fleet in Brest , and all through the summer the Channel Fleet under Hawke stayed at sea waiting for the French to come out . |
| 14 | ‘ Senior management must , therefore , not only be safeguarding today 's profits , but look to the long-term to ensure future success . ’ |
| 15 | In December they picketed the Guildhall and the local Unionist Party headquarters , and called on the unemployed to become more militant . |
| 16 | In his latest cabinet tussle , Yitzhak Rabin bowed to the orthodox to save his peace talks with the Arabs |
| 17 | resources should be allocated to the subordinate to enable him to carry out his tasks at the expected level of performance , and authority should be delegated to enable the subordinate to do this job ; and |
| 18 | " Then they have to go to the Chinese to borrow money at highwaymen 's rates . |
| 19 | Under such a description , which B at one point fitted , it verges on the punctilious to insist on judgment on the other points . |
| 20 | Vertical equity is the Robin Hood principle of taking from the rich to give to the poor . |
| 21 | Although America 's electronics industries are keen for the government to renew the parts of this agreement that call for the Japanese to buy more American chips , their ardour for price-fixing has cooled . |
| 22 | Mr Marland says the safe and lucrative deals were creamed off by the syndicates , and the risky ones left for the unsuspecting to pick up . |
| 23 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 24 | I take it to be a product of the myth I described above : ‘ I am fighting against the entrenched forces of insular stupidity , and I call upon the French to aid me ! ’ |
| 25 | Delors ' proposals were clearly out of all proportion to that figure , and he was soon obliged to retreat with a lame explanation that he had been ‘ arguing from the absurd to show what it would cost to achieve such a goal ’ . |
| 26 | Whether similar processes could also operate over the Arctic to produce a massive reduction in the ozone abundance remains uncertain . |
| 27 | Both sides of my family left rural south China for Malaya to get away from the grinding poverty , encouraged by the British to fill their need for cheap labour in their colonies . |
| 28 | And when we prevailed on the prior to let us raise the stone , this is what we found . ’ |
| 29 | They are purely private means devised by the neurotic to achieve what is achieved in society by collective effort . |
| 30 | JACK CHARLTON 'S Republic of Ireland last night were warned by the Spanish to prepare themselves for World Cup war tonight . |