Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin Cook , the party 's health spokesman , who retained his executive seat by coming second , said the vote showed the degree to which the party wanted to elect people who devoted their energies to helping Labour to win the next election . |
| 2 | With the isolation of the gene responsible for Duchenne muscular dystrophy it became possible to track the defective gene in most pedigrees and to offer increasingly accurate prenatal diagnosis either by deletion analysis in many cases or by using linked markers . |
| 3 | It became possible to determine the correct numbers of each kind of atom in a molecule by means of the already available Avogadro 's Law of 1811 , which a patriotic Italian chemist drew to the attention of an international symposium on the question in 1860 , the year of Italian unity . |
| 4 | When it became possible to study the German foreign office records after 1945 , says an American scholar , ‘ tests did not reveal essential documents … that were not printed by the editors of Die grosse Politia , [ but ] they did reveal that the editors , in making their selection , were influenced by a desire not to make the task of the rulers of the Weimar Republic more difficult , and not to injure the reputation of foreign statesmen who were still active after World War I and who were sympathetic to Germany ’ . |
| 5 | It is considered preferable to play the easiest opposition last . |
| 6 | Challenging strongly under Richard Quinn at the two furlong pole , Spring briefly looked set to collect the prestigious Group One prize , but failed to quicken . |
| 7 | Be Young , Be Foolish But Be Happy was a smash , her great new single , You To Me Are Everything is bounding up the charts and her new album , Sonia looks set to do the same . |
| 8 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 9 | Silver , the latest blockbuster from the gifted pen of Penny Jordan , looks set to repeat the huge success of her last novel Power Play . |
| 10 | Elbowed out FOOTBALL : Ajax Amsterdam 's Swedish striker Stefan Pettersson looks set to miss the European Championships after dislocating his elbow in the UEFA Cup final victory over Torino . |
| 11 | Here , boards can speed down the course within feet of the beach in consistent summer trade winds of up to 45 knots , and it looks set to become the ideal venue for breaking records . |
| 12 | This is the UK company 's first non-stout brand to bear the Guinness name since the launch of the eponymous stout , and it looks set to consolidate the leading position of the Guinness in-can system in the take home trade . |
| 13 | Having resisted repeated attempts to kill it off , the A level looks set to survive the latest upheavals in British education almost unchanged . |
| 14 | This afternoon we will discuss risk-stratification to identify the so-called lower risk group who in some American studies are leaving hospital at 3 days . |
| 15 | The therapist has to work hard to reduce the general level of anxiety and they should present as being relaxed , confident , and reassuring . |
| 16 | ‘ At the moment the bill looks likely to receive the royal assent in early April , so if the election is later than that then we will be pressing on with the plans . |
| 17 | Beaver Vale in Bingham looks likely to become the latest casualty of cuts to the county 's social services budget . |
| 18 | These could include promising to join the European Monetary System and mopping up liquidity by , for example , special banking deposit rates . |
| 19 | For this reason it is considered important to gather the subjective judgements of participants as well as evidence of a seemingly factual kind . |
| 20 | Finally , it was considered important to recognise the international value of the minority community languages . |
| 21 | Unbeaten all year and even expected to win by his rivals , the 26-year-old had looked odds-on to win the senior world title which British athletics had been expecting of him since he won the junior crown in 1986 . |
| 22 | The victor settled in the long grass , wings outspread to show the four pairs of conspicuous circle ‘ eyes ’ , scenting the air to attract a female , and to warn off males . |
| 23 | Then if you want blue to go the other side of the hoop and black to go here say , to the black wo n't go quite so far and the blue will . |
| 24 | FRENCH R&D has gone through an irreversible change even though budgetary ‘ rigour ’ looks certain to clip the massive spending central to the government 's strategy to encourage research , development and high technology industry . |
| 25 | Now a rise in unemployment looks certain to follow the latest rise in interest rates , we can expect to see ‘ actively seeking work ’ enforced with even greater severity and bias . ’ |
| 26 | This perspective has been associated with the function of ideology in creating the perceptions and beliefs in individuals deemed necessary to reproduce the political and economic structures of class and/or ethnic hegemony . |
| 27 | At the start of the exercise , the actual procedure was checked against a conceptual model that included the activities deemed necessary to achieve the agreed transformation . |
| 28 | A minimum of 25 different and well oriented columns were considered sufficient to evaluate the proliferative pattern of the epithelial cells ; cases with fewer than 25 columns were excluded from the analysis . |
| 29 | The right-wing Catholic party , the Christian National Union ( ZChN ) , asked Zielinski to oppose the 1956 law , but Health and Social Welfare Minister Marian Miskiewicz called on him to clarify its status with the Constitutional Court . |
| 30 | Mrs Shephard is demanding extra to meet the soaring cost of unemployment ; |