Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it harder for himself , though much more valuable , by refusing to take short cuts or to mug up the subject from the textbooks : he went to the original sources . |
| 2 | Enhancement in this context means the carrying out of works which are intended to lengthen substantially the useful life of the asset , to increase substantially its open market value , or to increase substantially the extent to which the asset will serve the purposes of the local authority concerned . |
| 3 | This angle can then be used to find the size of an object whose distance is known or to work out the size of the image through a given focal length . |
| 4 | At Ferrari , the only effort to put things right is either to find the scapegoat or to cover up the mistake and deny it ever happened . |
| 5 | Most voters have neither the time nor the inclination to scrutinize position papers or to weigh judiciously the qualities of those who offer themselves in primary elections . |
| 6 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 7 | Students are often asked to criticise such and such an author 's views , or to appraise critically the outcome of a particular idea or thought . |
| 8 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |
| 9 | We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) . |
| 10 | The objective this time is to shift down the injections line or to shift up the withdrawals line by the full amount of the inflationary gap . |
| 11 | The inability of the PPP to provide a strong leadership or to overcome decisively the challenges to its authority , both at federal and province level , left the political system in a state of paralysis . |
| 12 | This is good for voice-overs or to push down the level of the rhythm guitar to allow for the lead guitar to come over . |
| 13 | Critics have not been slow to point this out ( i.e. Potter and Litton , 1985 ; Eiser , 1986 ) , or to dismiss curtly the novelty of the approach ( McGuire , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | Ostensibly , the purpose of these programmes is either to elicit public help with solving the crime or to show how the police work . |
| 15 | The European community on the other hand also saw a growth of output of over twenty percent , twenty three point seven percent but that gave rise not to eighteen million but to only six million additional jobs and I just say to the honourable gentleman the lesson for Europe is to go further down the route that I have suggested of further deregulation and less bureaucracy and a stable economic framework , than to go down the route that he is advocating in his short address and question to me . |
| 16 | This is partly philanthropic and partly economic — it may cost more to process the bill and collect the money than to write off the charge ! |
| 17 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 18 | If one also supposed that only one or two electrons could orbit at any one of these distances , this would solve the problem of the collapse of the atom , because the electrons could not spiral in any farther than to fill up the orbits with the least distances and energies . |
| 19 | Any agreement or any peace treaty , when it comes , must recognise that to humiliate either the Serbs or the Croats would be a great mistake . |
| 20 | Lavandera makes the point that the standard procedure in quantitative sociolinguistics would have been to start the analysis from the forms themselves rather than to examine initially the discourse contexts in which they were used . |
| 21 | It is far better to like and admire something that is wrong , or to like and admire for the wrong reason , provided we do so sincerely , than to follow slavishly the dictates or ideas of some other person . |
| 22 | This is the only test — to unleash doubt on doubts , to examine the matter and to see where the truth lies . |
| 23 | reaction against the survival curves er with the G er pathology grade and the G with the tumour and to see actually the difference which we can , in curves which we can deduct from counting the vascularity . |
| 24 | The very activity is also an expression of faith in the tradition , of a willingness to understand oneself and the world in its terms and to carry on the argument , which in the area with which we are concerned is inescapably a normative argument , within the general framework defining the tradition . |
| 25 | What Clark did was to imagine what substances are responsible for killing parasites in these systems — and to carry out the experiments that prove his idea . |
| 26 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 27 | ‘ The powers conferred by section 268 are powers directed to enabling the court to help a liquidator to discover the truth of the circumstances in connection with the affairs of the company , information of trading , dealings , and so forth , in order that the liquidator may be able , as effectively as possible , and , I think , with as little expense as possible … to complete his function as liquidator , to put the affairs of the company in order and to carry out the liquidation in all its various aspects , including , of course , the getting in of any assets of the company available in the liquidation . |
| 28 | 3.1.1 " Tenant 's Approvals " means all ( if any ) approvals consents permissions and licences of any local or other competent authority which may from time to time be necessary to enable the Tenant lawfully to commence and to carry out the Tenant 's Works |
| 29 | They will have to learn how to present new lexis , structure and discourse forms appropriate to the tasks to be set in the assessments ; to construct cue cards for the practice of the language functions ; to manage the moves from class teacher to pair work organiser and to individual helper ; and to carry out the assessments in a rigorous manner . |
| 30 | The fountain of sparks died ; he staggered , swinging his head hack and forth as if to drive out the pain . |