Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pressed a hand to her bosom to try to still the wild fluttering of her heart . |
| 2 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 3 | I think you 've come to really the wrong committee to try and get money . |
| 4 | The simple and almost revolutionary message of Francis had the fortune to reach the ears and attention of a pope of spiritual vision who , while not able to fill that role himself , recognized the strength and power that might be harnessed to both the papal curia and the Church as a whole . |
| 5 | More traditional error correcting techniques can be used as a last resort , and if they are applied to just the top-rated candidate string this should avoid the potentially explosive problem . |
| 6 | The new piece should be thoroughly dried , and tailored to approximately the right shape and size . |
| 7 | As gastrointestinal symptoms or signs may be non-specific two or more features related to either the upper or lower tract were considered necessary to suggest the site of possible disease . |
| 8 | In the pyramid of control , according to both the formal theory and the practical application of it in organizational design , authority would reside in individuals by virtue of their incumbency in office and/or their expertise . |
| 9 | I have written to both the Prime Minister and the Sports Minister because I wonder if my civil liberties have been infringed . |
| 10 | He was seducing her already , pulling her close , and there was nothing she could say or do to still the instant leaping hunger he incited . |
| 11 | ‘ If Cllr Murphy is aware of any specific incidence of malpractice or wrongdoing , he should detail the same in writing to either the chief executive or the independent consultants appointed to look into this matter , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Referrals were made to either the local Drug Detoxification Unit or the Regional Drug Dependency Unit . |
| 13 | On the other hand , such bodies are , of course , acting to further the public interest , and it has not always proved easy to strike the right balance between independence and public accountability . |
| 14 | The new Association is best seen not so much as a pressure group founded to further the professional interests of teachers of English , but rather as a class-based mobilization which drew in not only most professors of English Language and Literature , but also like-minded politicians , administrators , and " men of letters " . |
| 15 | We denote all the terms in the square bracket as A s , which are the same for every unit cell , and sum all the scattered waves illuminated by the incident plane wave within the probe coherence area , containing N 2 unit cells , to give The first two summations are the structure factor , which amount to constant coefficients in the LEED I-V spectra , leading to Thus the main effect of long-range order , as distinct from short-range order , is to produce intensity at Bragg beam positions ; it does not influence the I-V dependence at a given Bragg beam position . |
| 16 | Railwaymen were going to object to funds being used to further the political careers of such men . |
| 17 | If this seems unlikely , it is recorded that , in January and February 1887 , a Croatian minstrel recited from memory a series of lays amounting to twice the combined length of the Iliad and the Odyssey ( Thomson 1949 , p. 529 ) . |
| 18 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
| 19 | of the arable area , compared to probably the full 9,478 hectares noted for temporary leys for 1939 in Table VII , about 17 per cent . |
| 20 | The unique descriptive name by which the media unit will be known to both the Offline Manager and Offline Operator . |
| 21 | Portsmouth were restricted to just the odd chance — Lee Chapman almost sneaking a third . |
| 22 | What 's really evil is the spectacle of governments encouraging divisiveness among people , catering to only the well-heeled , well-schooled and well-fed and keeping everybody else down . |
| 23 | The same effect can be achieved with a small pair of school compasses ( which have the advantage that they can be adjusted to exactly the right size ) , but these are more difficult to use to get an exact line . |
| 24 | The creation of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 represented an attempt to co-ordinate the responses of less powerful states to superpower pressure through the establishment of a ‘ third way ’ — an independent posture aligned to neither the capitalist West nor the communist East . |
| 25 | Our third report outlined a number of schemes and initiatives which were intended to further the general aim of closer links with parents and the community : the appointment of a team of home-school liaison assistants ( later redesignated home-school liaison officers ) ; the Portage scheme , described in more detail below ; in-service support courses ; and a wide range of everyday practice , including a great diversity of activities ( forty-seven in all ) which are listed in Table 5.1 . |
| 26 | Er this report refers to just the new road terms within the appropriate switch of transportation strategy , which as you know represent other proposals relate to certain facilities and off street parking , bus priority and major park |
| 27 | Although class teachers have considerable personal autonomy over their classes with regard to both the mathematical content and the manner in which this is encountered , they are far from free of the social world which they , and , as importantly , their pupils inhabit . |
| 28 | Such right-context effects ( Thompson 84 ) are not limited to just the initial portion of the utterance . |
| 29 | These assays were performed under association conditions where NCp7 was exposed to both the radiolabelled ds LTR and the competitor at the same time . |
| 30 | The devotee knows , however , that the image is not the omnipresent God force , whatever that may mean to almost the entire world . |