Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich tend to buy the services of doctors and the poor purchase mostly unprescribed medicines from pharmacists . |
| 2 | It is difficult to react adequately to George Woodcock 's silly comment that in Leonard 's first two books of poetry ‘ the thirties urge to relate the imagery of poetry to the world we live in , as the world we dream , might never have existed . ’ |
| 3 | Now that IBM Corp is in long-term decline , evolving into just another big company like Xerox Corp or General Motors Corp that has seen much better days , market-makers are looking for another bellwether to signal the direction of the entire market , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 4 | Some appear to use the cash flow statement in an impressionistic way , in the words of one interviewee , ‘ to get a feel for investments and for management action ’ . |
| 5 | Some seek to keep the family together at all costs ; others , particularly in relation to sexual abuse , argue for the exclusion of the abuser from the home . |
| 6 | Discourse analysts are rather vague about what they mean by ‘ conversation ’ too , and some seem to use the term to describe any kind of oral interaction . |
| 7 | That was sufficient to reverse the market 's early 16.5 drop to leave the FTSE 1.4 off at 3037.2 . |
| 8 | Some like to have the item fully composed before they begin teaching others prefer to compose and teach parts , discarding and replacing as they go along until it takes shape . |
| 9 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
| 10 | Some try to match the closure programme to meet the Staff needs . |
| 11 | In this essay I shall attempt to show how this need to control the female permeates the ritual life of the Hindu woman . |
| 12 | Why this need to nudge the world into being other than it is ? he wrote . |
| 13 | None are exempt from this need to understand the principles of finance if they are to succeed . |
| 14 | The growing use of alliances in strategic industries heightens this need to understand the world scene . |
| 15 | It was both out of proportion to any social need to protect the impartiality of the courts and the rights of litigants , and it was not a restriction necessary in a democratic society to uphold these values . |
| 16 | THE ORGANISERS of the World Student Games to be held in Sheffield in 1991 intend to foot the bill for the Games , which will have to be staged for the first time without direct financial help from the host government , by raising £18m through sponsorship . |
| 17 | Ian , 39 , fished a bunch of lugworm on a size 4/0 hook to tempt the cod which was beached on 15 lb line . |
| 18 | Thus left-dislocated sentences ( Ross , 1967 ) like the following seem to mark the topic of the sentence by movement into initial position : ( 98 ) That blouse , it 's simply stunning ( 99 ) Vera , is she coming down then ? |
| 19 | Fig 45 Aim to position the aircraft on , or as close as possible to , the outbound track prior to crossing the facility outbound . |
| 20 | Two more quotations of many hundreds serve to make the point that the distance between the two views is so large that they are probably not going to be reconciled by proof or disproof of the physical evidence . |
| 21 | Friends of Chai act as stewards as hundreds come to see the spectacle , including foreign correspondents . |
| 22 | The six plan to publish the specification for the common desktop environment by end-June , and it will save everyone 's face by incorporating elements of Hewlett 's Visual User Environment , IBM 's Common User Access Workplace Shell , Sun 's Open Look and DeskSet and SunSoft ToolTalk interapplication communication , and Unix Labs 's System V.4.2 desktop manager and the Open Software Foundation 's Motif tool kit and window manager adapted to take care of users familiar with Open Look . |
| 23 | And had there been any real need to send the child away to her bridal so soon ? |
| 24 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 25 | In detail , sponges are distinguished by the form of the spicular structure , and the ways these combine to form the skeleton , as well as the overall shape . |
| 26 | There are one or two mild metaphors and parallelisms , but these tend to serve the purpose of irony ( see 8.4–5 ) , which is the overarching figure of speech in this passage . |
| 27 | The ‘ diffuseness ’ and ‘ elusiveness ’ of central control , the relaxed and constructive atmosphere , the absence of stress and conflict described by HMIs — all these appear to contradict the expectations and experience of the average ‘ curriculum manager ’ in England and Wales to the point where he or she must ask : ‘ Can I learn anything at all either from Denmark or from an international perspective ? ’ |
| 28 | The terms and conditions of their engagement ( and many organisations are careful not to use the word " employment " ) are set out in special handbooks , or in the contracts which casual workers are required to sign , and these seek to make the parties ' lack of mutual obligation clear . |
| 29 | These contrive to make the locking very stiff . |
| 30 | In the procedures of arresting and charging individuals and in their treatment in court , there are clear differences across the middle/working-class divide ; and these serve to reinforce the public 's ( and the police 's ) perception that certain groups are inclined to criminality . |