Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |
| 2 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | The British stumble after the Americans trying to copy their technology but waste their limited resources because their agencies are run by an amateurish elite who are too highly politicised and target the wrong enemies , allowing the real spies to go free . |
| 4 | The best way to create jobs in the telecommunications industry is through liberalisation , our duopoly review , opening up the market , allowing the new products to come through and allowing customers to make their decisions in the marketplace . |
| 5 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 6 | Allowing the Irish peasants to buy land — did the government think they would be satisfied with just that ? |
| 7 | The Active Gel Network consists of very fine links which release under the pressure of application and then re-form , holding colour pigments , ultraviolet filters and oils on the surface and allowing the moisturising agents to penetrate . |
| 8 | He was for ‘ a delicious diligent indolence ’ , for a passiveness allowing the intellectual powers to come very gradually to ripeness . |
| 9 | The whole point of allowing the big schemes to go ahead at this difficult economic time , after all , is not just to get roads and railway lines built but to cut unemployment and get the economy moving . |
| 10 | Not only does allowing the so-called minnows to play the bigger teams provide their players with the highlights of the rugby lives — but it also means that sides like South Korea , conquerors of the Barbarians , get the exposure to top level competition . |
| 11 | The idea is for operating system personalities such as OS/2 , AIX and DOS/Windows to run on top of a microkernel that will be available across a range of IBM machines , allowing the same applications to run under a variety of personalities . |
| 12 | Movement can also be limited by the body in order to protect itself from further harm , e.g. the pain from a twisted ankle prevents mobility , thus allowing the inflamed tissues to rest and heal . |
| 13 | Both Bomber Command and the American Air Forces were concentrating on oil refineries and synthetic petroleum plants as well as the usual railway marshalling yards and arms factories all over France and western Germany in order to enable the invading armies to carry on advancing , but air losses were heavy . |
| 14 | When installing the tray it is necessary to ensure that it is pushed home firmly and squarely to enable the internal pins to line up . |
| 15 | An American note was sent to the Soviet Union on 11 August 1947 requesting a report from the Joint Commission by 21 August to enable the two governments to decide on the next step . |
| 16 | This is claimed to enable the DXE-based routers to communicate over an HSS interface at speeds from 1.5Mbps to 52Mbps . |
| 17 | Has it a policy to enable the naval shipyards to diversify into merchant ship building ? |
| 18 | Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California has decided that IBM Corp 's Cadam Inc computer-aided design software base is ripe for plundering , and is developing two Cadam-emulation products , Aemulus and Aemulus(mf) , which are now in alpha test : the products , which offer a Cadam-like user interface and bi-directional compatibility with Cadam files , are also compatible with AutoCAD Release 12 ; Aemulus is an AutoCAD Development System application with a Cadam-like graphics interface and command set and enables customers to edit existing Cadam models or create new Cadam-compatible models on the desktop ; Aemulus(mf) is a mainframe-resident program that enables customers to quickly and completely convert Cadam two-dimensional Interactive Drawing files to DXF files or vice versa ; both are set for shipment in May 1993 but pricing has not yet been decided ; the company also says that it is expanding its product line beyond the drafting portion of the design spectrum it has traditionally occupied to cover the entire spectrum from conceptualisation to manufacturing , and that as a first step its three top-selling drafting and design packages , AutoCAD , Generic CADD and AutoSketch , have been brought together under one organisational umbrella , and are being precisely defined and clarified in terms of their relationship to each other ; development is under way to enable the three products to work together and share files across networks . |
| 19 | But not without difficulty and not until Butler had assembled a complicated financial package which included generous loans to enable the voluntary bodies to build or convert schools for secondary purposes . |
| 20 | The idea was that the United Nations arms embargo on ex-Yugoslavia should be lifted to enable the Bosnian Muslims to get the heavy weapons they need . |
| 21 | Gary Smith : ‘ You learn to pull the right triggers , push the key words to get the money . |
| 22 | We therefore applied the following criteria to define a positive result . |
| 23 | The smaller room was where taught the younger children to read and write and count . |
| 24 | Others , such as the Prime Minister , Juan Negrín , advocated struggling on , in the hope that the situation in Europe would degenerate into an open conflict with Hitler and Mussolini , and that this , in turn , would oblige the western democracies to come to the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
| 25 | Johannes Hevelius , a prosperous brewer of Danzig ( now Gdansk ) , made the first attempts to name the lunar features on his map of 1647 . |
| 26 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 27 | At Eger , in 1213 , Frederick made the same promises to respect the Papal State as Otto had done . |
| 28 | She suggested we try and cook in turns and bring the smaller children to play together in the workshop . |
| 29 | Three out of four directors say social workers lack the necessary powers to act when they suspect old people are being abused by carers , relatives or neighbours . |
| 30 | Putting aside these perhaps superfluous thoughts , it is nevertheless evident that from the beginning some students prefer to write ‘ differently ’ but lack the technical resources to do so competently . |