Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an expatriate , rather than a local employee is really needed , the organisation has to consider whether to relocate an existing employee or recruit specifically to fill the post . |
| 2 | Consequently , it mattered little whether the facade was retained or stripped away to reveal the reality behind it . |
| 3 | There 's nothing that we can say or do here to add the distinction , to add distinction er to what was done here forty years ago . |
| 4 | Heckling , or seeking temporarily to disrupt the speaker are insufficient to amount to such an offence . |
| 5 | The rays pass through a hole in the iris , called the pupil , which opens or closes automatically to alter the amount of light entering the eye , just as the diaphragm of a camera adjusts its aperture . |
| 6 | Too often the choice for the British filmmaker has seemed to lie between critical approval combined with minimal box office or going all-out to emphasize the most garish , flamboyant and parochial aspects of popular cinema . |
| 7 | On all copies of the Work rendered into bilingual editions , or adapted specially to suit the educational requirements and syllabus of particular countries a royalty to be negotiated and based on the Publisher 's net receipts |
| 8 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 9 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 10 | The detailed structure of the individual plates that combine together to build the skeleton are the basis for the classification of the corals , as well as the general form . |
| 11 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
| 12 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 13 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 14 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 15 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 16 | To attempt to encapsulate ‘ pain' or ‘ red ’ , in the sense in which these are sensations or experiences , within a form of words , is no more illuminating than trying verbally to capture the stink of durian ( a tropical fruit with a foul odour yet hypnotic taste ) . |
| 17 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 18 | For example , proposals such as those to base service provision on charges or vouchers are impractical and tend only to increase the differences between the services available in different areas and to shift the costs from the more visible budgets of the services to the less visible ones of the individual , relatively powerless consumer : either their pockets or their time and energy will be hit . |
| 19 | Downes thumped the table with both fists with such ferocity that WPC Wright transferred her shorthand-book to her black-stockinged knee , and failed completely to register the next three words that Downes had thundered . |
| 20 | It was , however , a bodged job , probably by the farm labourers , and failed even to fit the opening properly . |
| 21 | The atomistic theory of Epicurus , the methods of the Greek sceptics , and Zeno 's paradoxes concerning time and space may all have influenced the heretics concerned , but MacDonald could find no trace of any Greek theory combining material and temporal atomism and sought instead to attribute the occurrence of the latter in Islamic thought to Indian influence . |
| 22 | Very quietly one gets up and goes noiselessly to check the bolt 's on the door . |
| 23 | Most other delegates dismissed this as quite unrealistic and agreed merely to encourage the International Socialist Bureau to continue seeking opportunities for a peaceful settlement , ‘ without annexations or indemnities ’ . |
| 24 | Doormen in red coats , royal blue silk lining flapping an appearance , peel off the foyer glass doors , and forge forward to park the car and muster bags . |
| 25 | His art collection began with a Rembrandt etching received as a college graduation gift , and expanded generously to serve the needs of the MIA . |
| 26 | This is almost obligatory , because it takes a bit of practise before you become dexterous enough to become adept with the net and experienced enough to discover the hiding places of the various fish and other interesting creatures . |
| 27 | The host of darkness let out a howl of anguish and charged forward to overwhelm the lone Elf warrior and the Elf army raced to meet them . |
| 28 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 29 | The presence of Rwigyema at the head of the rebellion , and the desertion from the NRA to the rebels of large numbers of Rwandan nationals , including about 40 officers , was embarrassing for the Ugandan government , which denied knowledge of an invasion plan , and moved quickly to close the border . |
| 30 | The workers surrounding the dancer watch it closely , remember the message and fly away to find the flower . |