Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 2 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 3 | To teach a list of ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention . |
| 4 | To teach ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention . |
| 5 | To teach ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention |
| 6 | Federal law was always superior to Länder law and the Länder were restricted in many areas to carrying out the policies of the Bonn government . |
| 7 | Whatever the reasons for their change from their nautiloid ancestors , the ammonoids were an enormously successful group : thousands of different species have been described , and their variety is so bewildering that many specialists devote their lives to studying only the ammonoids of a particular , short time period . |
| 8 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 9 | Third , the particular reputational approach used by Hunter presupposed that which remained to be proven — that there is a group of forty people in whose hands power in Atlanta is concentrated — by devoting all his efforts to finding out the names of people who appear to belong to this elite . |
| 10 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 11 | As a consequence there are , at present , serious obstacles to analysing directly the functional organization of the human brain . |
| 12 | Punishment ranges from denying interviewers access to cabinet ministers to holding down the BBC 's licence fee , appointing suitable people to control both BBC and commercial broadcasting , and stimulating the public to accuse the broadcasters of bias . |
| 13 | On the other , he could have devoted his energies to shoring up the regime 's prestige , authority and ability to maintain order . |