Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his embarrassment , the lawyer at the hearings then obliged him to go through a whole code-sheet to get the names into the record , or perhaps just to entertain the audience . |
| 2 | Accordingly one of the objectives of government may be to achieve stable prices , or more realistica-lly to reduce the rate at which prices are rising . |
| 3 | However , it does pay to provide some care and attention when growing herbs in the mass , to ensure their greater decorativeness and well-being , or even simply to curtail the activity of the lustier wild plants . |
| 4 | NAFTA , if and when it comes , will boost the Mexican economy , but not quickly or strongly enough to stem the tide . |
| 5 | Dealers at one licensed dealer would habitually sell a stock whose price would rise for a couple of weeks or so although not enough to cover the spread — before reverting . |
| 6 | If she had stopped to think , she would have remembered that Brown Owl had told the Pack more than once always to seek the help of a grown-up they knew in any case of emergency . |
| 7 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 8 | To be a professional is to exercise ( and most importantly to have the ability to exercise ) one 's professional skills and to make professional decisions , without deference to moral , religious or political beliefs and points of view . |
| 9 | Many thanks to those who worked so hard and so well to prepare the children . |
| 10 | Double-headed again , with Nos 26007 and 26043 , a photo stop at Blackburn was soon reached and so on to join the Settle-Carlisle line at Hellifield Junction . |
| 11 | It had to be , if only succinctly to show the BBC and , later , the audience at home , what the series was all about . |
| 12 | Every year the total amount of pollutants emitted by vehicles in the UK would fill a tunnel 10 metres wide and long enough to encircle the earth . |
| 13 | She wanted desperately to start a family — and not just to silence the constant enquiries of well-meaning friends and relatives . |
| 14 | And not just to take the phetam , either — not now . |
| 15 | This is vital , for ultimately we want students to branch out on their own , to develop their own viewpoints , and not simply to imitate the views of the teacher bound to a particular research methodology or paradigm . |
| 16 | It should always be remembered that amplification is there to serve , not to dominate the congregation , and to enhance and not simply to magnify the artistry of musicians . |
| 17 | One of the reasons for referring a question to an expert is that the expert should be sufficiently qualified , if not actually to know the answer , at least to know where to look for it . |
| 18 | My poetic image of the Lady of the Hearth was grounded sharply on one particular occasion when , suffering from raging au , and having to cope with the demands of two small children in a freezing house , I struggled over and over again to make the wood catch fire . |
| 19 | Just over a decade later , as the papal curia prepared for the Vatican Council , Cardinal Ottaviani proposed a profession of faith for the Council fathers which would repeat the anti-modernist oath ( no remarkable thing in itself : the anti-modernist oath was required to be taken by all those teaching in seminaries , and all priests before ordination ) and once again to repudiate the errors that had been condemned by Humani Generis . |
| 20 | Governments may adopt various industrial , regional and fiscal policies designed to increase the incentive to entrepreneurs to set up new businesses and possibly also to reduce the ‘ red tape ’ involved . |
| 21 | Go through the reservoir gates , down left across a gully and up again to follow the path across the dam . |
| 22 | That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere . |
| 23 | And now just to spend the rest of the lecture elaborating on what I just said . |
| 24 | Dig a hole wide and deep enough to accommodate the root system without undue bending and fill it with water . |
| 25 | However , one alternative way in which central government may play a role is to collect the tax revenue on behalf of local governments and then simply to turn the revenue over to them . |
| 26 | Under this second head the project seeks to identify the criteria by which the universities determined it appropriate to respond positively to pressures for change , and then further to define the limits within which choices about the practical nature of that response were effectively constrained . |
| 27 | In general a more liberal attitude prevails ; more is known about the causes and nature of mental handicap , and how best to approach the problems of education and care . |
| 28 | My solicitor will advise me about running the business , how to trade and how best to run the finances . ’ |
| 29 | Because Peter was already an experienced golfer he knew just how he should stand , how he should hold the club , what sort of swing was required and how hard to hit the ball . |
| 30 | I said that I was willing to see him and his colleagues to consult on how best and how quickly to abolish the poll tax and on how best and how quickly to introduce a new and fairer system . |