Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ These plans are designed to further the Government 's commitment to wider and deeper share ownership and to a successful sale of BT shares in 1993/4 , ’ said Stephen Dorrell , financial secretary to the Treasury , told a seminar of stockbrokers and other financial intermediaries . |
| 2 | In particular , policies designed to further the employment prospects of women need to be informed by such an understanding . |
| 3 | All the metropolitan dailies published in 1855 as well as in 1870 were committed to either the Liberals or the Conservatives ; the same was also broadly true of the English provincial daily press . |
| 4 | Related species often grow to twice the diameter . |
| 5 | In some strange way it helped to even the score over Elise . |
| 6 | Tough love should be kind , gentle and understanding to both the family member and the primary sufferer , while nonetheless allowing each to be fully responsible for his or her own feelings and behaviour and for taking the full consequences of all choices of individual action . |
| 7 | Oldham worked diligently to put Arsenal under maximum pressure from the start , and both O'Leary and Dixon had anxious moments as they strove to adjust to both the home attack and the artificial turf . |
| 8 | For example in an advertising agency discussion about a new campaign to revive a soft drink one person might be trying to solve the problem of how an old drink can be called " new " in any sense ; another person might be trying to solve the problem of how " old " can be made appealing ; arid a third person might be trying to solve the problem of designing a theme that will sell not to the public but to the marketing manager who has to okay the campaign . |
| 9 | be doing , us at the management team here , is saying , look , we know we 're gon na have trou we want to please the client . |
| 10 | Where possible , you should choose a period that is in line with how long you want to deep the car , so that when the time comes to replace it you can start again from scratch . |
| 11 | They feel , they want to better the world . |
| 12 | In 1758 Essex clothiers similarly added to both the length and width of the expected piece . |
| 13 | This in turn has led to increasing Government interference in matters relating to both the organisation and professional functions of medical groups . |
| 14 | Because most of the oil was dispersed to below the surface , it would enter the marine food chain ; and because the oil was easily ingested , it could have damaging effects on birds and animals in the long term . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Following President Galtieri 's 75% increase of the levy on non-Argentine mining interests around the South Pole , violence flared up again as British wildcat oilmen tried to even the score after their resounding defeat in the Malvinas War of 1981 . |
| 17 | The DTI objected to both the picture of Gazza and the reference to Armstrong 's suicide , saying that they were in bad taste . |
| 18 | Eleven weeks before the opening of the British Empire Exhibition ( where for the first time the King 's speech was transmitted by wireless to every part of the country and many parts of the British Empire ) , the house with every item in place was ready to be presented to both the Queen and the public . |
| 19 | A judgment that could never be applied to either the Edgar Broughton Band or The Deviants , two fabulously freaky bands whose message was delivered with all the subtlety of a Molotov cocktail . |
| 20 | As a sentencing judge you are always looking for options erm a variety of options to impose so that each individual sentence that you impose on a defendant is tailored to either the rehabilitation or the punishment ends of sentencing . |
| 21 | Possible reasons for this spread of results include issues related to both the origin of the dictionary and the origin of the test data : |
| 22 | According to either the libertarian or social responsibility theories of the media , the means of mass communication should not be controlled by the state . |
| 23 | The result , both in some sectors where there are producers who are purely home-based and others who are foreign-based , and in whole states , is a political tug-of-war to define the ‘ cow ’ according to either the stay-at-home or to the go-abroad interests . |
| 24 | According to both the coal industry and the National Wildlife Federation , the government will as a result be forced to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars if it is to prevent strip-mining on protected lands . |
| 25 | In a reference to the ANC 's suspension of the armed struggle in August , Mandela said that this was done to further the peace process but that the movement had nevertheless not forfeited its right to self-defence . |
| 26 | The appellants , in seeking to further the aims of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , entered and sought to immobilise an airfield . |
| 27 | The Association has continued to be active since 1946 , monitoring the progress of new towns and seeking to further the principles and practice of good planning . |
| 28 | Thirdly , because the overall intake has been increased and the average blood ionic fluoride level of the population raised , individuals who ingest submilligram doses of fluoride will run a greater risk of their blood ionic fluoride concentrations peaking to above the threshold level that can cause dental fluorosis or other ill-effects . |
| 29 | It is misguided in believing that a solution to the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power can ever be found by looking to either the market or the ordering of power within the company . |
| 30 | The possession of large machines by those responsible for managing rivers can sometimes lead to a situation where the tail wags the dog , and the results can be damaging to both the environment and the economy . |