Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 2 | Well , he posted the finished text to his publishers from Istanbul about three weeks after he arrived there . |
| 3 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 4 | The President and most Republican legislators favoured a version that would have limited the extra benefits to no more than 20 weeks , and objected to the qualification changes . |
| 5 | Even a change of name — from the Windscale that had witnessed the 1957 fire to the brave new world of Sellafield — has failed to expunge public hostility . |
| 6 | You can be truly successful this year , especially if you have learned to diversify at the same time as pursuing the well-beaten track to your objectives . |
| 7 | Peter , North Yorkshire , I hope Mr is not suggesting that it would be the intention of the County or the District pursuing the new settlement to er include within it er polluting industry . |
| 8 | Governments and the EC , he argues , have not realised the inherent threats to manufacturing in the West . |
| 9 | It was late in the afternoon now , later than I thought it would be , and shadows were long on the grass before us , so that by the time we 'd travelled the leafy lane to Flanders Hall and had followed the road past the Grange to West Burton village green , it was early evening . |
| 10 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 11 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
| 12 | As mentioned in the sub-section on SPRs , a number of SSRs should be generated when responding to a complex SPR , thus allowing the complete description to be stored in LIFESPAN . |
| 13 | Following annealing , this sequence remains single stranded allowing the annealed oligonucleotide to be cloned into the Bam HI site in the vector pBL 2 CAT ( 16 ) . |
| 14 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 15 | Not allowing the primary sufferer to be inappropriately involved in food preparation . |
| 16 | It is a refreshing change when cars are in fact parked in a separate , but linked area allowing the front garden to be developed along slightly different lines . |
| 17 | The Foreign Minister , Enrique Dreyfus , who had discussed the matter with President Cristiani of El Salvador , was among those who held Ortega responsible , pointing out on Jan. 4 that Nicaragua had violated international agreements by allowing the Soviet missiles to be used by third parties without authorization . |
| 18 | Consequently , the model excludes activities associated with making precise calculations of actual resource needs and costs , and reflects the use of weighted factors to determine instead the relative costs of courses , thus allowing the available finance to be allocated on an equitable basis to Colleges , and within Colleges , to Departments . |
| 19 | Indeed , one representative of a finance house pointed out that there was a benefit in allowing the short-term debts to be cleared first ; it gave the debtor a light at the end of the tunnel , an achievable goal to aim at . |
| 20 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 21 | The Doctor Data database is aimed at defining the entire compass of E-type additives , allowing the whole range to be investigated , at least up to the date of author Peter J Menter 's documentation , although the main menu of the program includes an option to update the database in various ways . |
| 22 | Again it was apparent that the remedies were more effective than conventional therapy alone , often allowing the conventional drugs to be reduced or discontinued . |
| 23 | Eskimo 's Canoe Store has moved to a high street location in St David 's where accessories are selling well , allowing the old shop to be converted into an office and bedroom for Andy . |
| 24 | She should begin by allocating days off , allowing the maximum numbers to be away on the days of least workload . |
| 25 | Much of the administrative back-up is provided from Elderslie , i.e. wages and purchasing , allowing the main emphasis to be placed on production and design . |
| 26 | The package cost $5,100 million , to be financed by compensatory revenues of $2,600 million gained from closing a loophole for wealthy taxpayers who make quarterly income tax payments , $880 million from maintaining the unemployment tax at 0.08 per cent ( instead of allowing the scheduled drop to 0.06 percent ) , and $1,700 million from allowing the Internal Revenue Service to continue to withold tax refunds from people who had defaulted on student loans . |
| 27 | Such transactions are illegal but the authorities , during the long Breshnev era , did not concern themselves too much with this kind of illegality , allowing the ruling class to radically improve its material situation , even become rich . |
| 28 | A marriage may be therapeutic in allowing the Oedipal fixation to be worked through — and then founder since the needs of the partners concerned have changed . |
| 29 | Mrs Hugh Dalton doubled the Labour majority to 7,072 , remarking at the declaration on the ‘ ever deepening distress ’ of the South Durham people . |
| 30 | It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer , that God 's supreme gift , the Holy Spirit , was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him , reached the climax of his sermon ! |