Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gentleman sees the working papers he will discover that no hospital will be able to ask for trust status unless it agrees to carry out the whole range of services that must be undertaken in that area . |
| 2 | ALSO , Liverpool wo n't want to write off the best part of £1 million spent on recruiting Souness : £500,000 a year salary and £400,000 compensation to Rangers . |
| 3 | It is for this reason that the CDP has advocated direct government funding , an advocacy which seems extremely unlikely to succeed as the government will surely want to try out the new system for a few years before sanctioning any radical alteration . |
| 4 | We advise our composers , helping to sift out the bad songs and to search out opportunities for our writers to compose ‘ covers ’ for particular artists . |
| 5 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 6 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 7 | Radioactivity helped the solar wind to sift out the dense iron-nickel from the silicates , and was the main energy source in turning the inner cores of planets molten . |
| 8 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 9 | The worker will need to carry out the following : |
| 10 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 11 | It seems , however , that your leitmotiv is that no doctor could be expected to carry out the multifacetted role that doctors ‘ helping the police with their enquiries ’ have to perform , that they can not do so with their usual amount of skill , and that they can not carry out some of the more sensitive tasks without bias or being influenced by their paymasters — the police . |
| 12 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 13 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 14 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 15 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 16 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 17 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , only Roger E Bryan tried to conjure up the real Neil Kinnock , now unsuppressed by his minders and able to give full rein to his natural prolixity : ‘ I am full of hate , spite , yes malice and rage/Or even loathing , disgust , rancour , venom and wrath … |
| 19 | However , for the best effect , you do need to work out the right size and shape for your arrangement , choose appropriate containers and know which colours of flowers go well together . |
| 20 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 21 | After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets . |
| 22 | Also , at the end of the day it is arguable that all that the register needs to show are the principal charges over the company 's property since anyone dealing with the company can seek to find out the full extent to which the company 's property has been charged once put on notice that some charges have been created . |
| 23 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I shall seek to find out the exact number of times and shall write to the Hon. Member , but I think that what I said was absolutely correct : that the sanctions are severe and are rarely used . |
| 24 | Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way . |
| 25 | The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1306 there took place at Montreuil the first of a series of meetings ( ‘ processes ’ ) between French and English representatives to try to work out the legal position of the lands held by the English in Aquitaine . |
| 27 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 28 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 29 | The French Navy has begun an operation designed to clean up the toxic seaweed which is threatening marine life in the Mediterranean off the south coast [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 30 | Finally , the staff of the clinic is completed by a social worker , whose role it is to try to sort out the non-medical problems that often go hand-in-hand with any infections . |