Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company must be able to communicate to potential customers the way in which its product would satisfy their needs , and provide competitive value . |
| 2 | In setting up such a scheme great care needs to be taken in explaining to all participants the rationale behind the decision and the positive gains involved . |
| 3 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 4 | In the face of a severe crisis relating to international reserves the government devalued the currency twice , in February and in March , and allowed it to float in September . |
| 5 | The legislative function is exercised mainly through Parliament which has the power to make laws of general applicability and to grant to other bodies the power to make delegated legislation under authority of an act of parliament . |
| 6 | The 1882 Act in one respect served to grant to middle-class women the rights in property enjoyed by the middle-class male . |
| 7 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 8 | The point I think is not to count the numbers of fish raised , but to pass to fellow fishkeepers the knowledge gained . |
| 9 | According to Imperial records the horde gathered at the coast and began to construct a huge fleet . |
| 10 | According to Israeli sources the 12 — seven from the Gaza strip and five from the West Bank — were closely associated with various factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
| 11 | What is mandatory is nothing more or less than what Parliament requires as a precondition of according to such instruments the force of law . |
| 12 | According to unconfirmed reports the government had offered talks with Bhutto in return for an agreement to end the agitation . |
| 13 | According to official figures the numbers of self-employed and small proprietors rose from 1,954,000 in December 1971 , to 2,925,000 in June 1988 , a rise of very nearly one million . |
| 14 | According to official figures the turnout was 95.6 per cent of the 1,085,000 eligible voters . |
| 15 | According to official sources the decision was based on reduced tension in southern Africa and was unrelated to the incident in Moscow . |
| 16 | According to Soviet commentaries the United States ' commitment to these bases underlay its warnings to the ASEAN countries against pursuing the idea of a nuclear-free zone in Southeast Asia . |
| 17 | According to these critics the government should put into effect society 's desire to invest more so as to promote growth . |
| 18 | According to these figures the nine-week period had been the bloodiest of the civil war to date , with 3,350 deaths in all . |
| 19 | According to these results the overwhelming majority of seats went to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) , whose officials vehemently denied opposition charges of election fraud , claiming that their " crushing success " was due to " good organization and hard work " . |
| 20 | According to these rates the best-fed people of the region live in Argentina , Costa Rica , Cuba , Mexico , Paraguay and Uruguay , while Bolivia and Haiti still maintain low levels of calorie intake . |
| 21 | In Britain , the role of fragmented political authority in muddying the formation of objectives is illustrated by conflicts within the present Conservative government over BR 's electrification plans , with close advisers of the Prime Minister , and according to some accounts the Treasury , undermining the efforts of the Department of Transport to secure cabinet approval . |
| 22 | The presence of Egyptian and Jordanian delegations hinted at a possible rift in the ranks of the " front-line " Arab states ; according to some commentators the Jordanian decision to attend had greatly displeased the Syrians . |
| 23 | According to some commentators the Myanman military had set out to capture the Karens ' last two bases on the Thai border ( Manerplaw and Kawmoora ) by March 27 , the country 's Armed Forces Day . |
| 24 | According to some commentators the peace process would effectively be placed on hold at least until January 1993 when Clinton took office . |
| 25 | As the cortege passed Srinagar 's Islamia College precinct , Indian security forces opened fire on the mourners , killing at least 20 people on the spot ; a further 27 people were subsequently killed , and according to some reports the death toll had reached 100 by the end of the day . |
| 26 | According to some reports the air attacks were followed by an artillery barrage from Israeli and South Lebanese Army ( SLA ) forces positioned in Israeli 's " security zone " . |
| 27 | According to some reports the change in emphasis was the result of pressure from the United States . |
| 28 | According to some reports the settlers were trying to force Palestinians to increase their use of firearms , thereby provoking the IDF into using its full military might . |
| 29 | According to some reports the policy was the first step towards making the currency convertible . |
| 30 | According to some reports the government agreed to allow three agencies ( including the powerful National Security Council ) to be removed from presidential control in 1994 . |