Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wood was loosely stacked to provide the rabbits with temporary cover until such time as they enlarged the burrows themselves . |
| 2 | Although development work on this discovery continued , it was a process called Lime Soda softening which was commercially developed to overcome the problems of hard water . |
| 3 | Even more profound changes happened in the internal structures of the brachiopods , partly those concerned with supporting the lophophore — these changed from simple loops to complex ‘ doubled back ’ structures , or to fantastic spirals and whorls — all presumably designed to increase the ways of food-gathering , and its efficiency . |
| 4 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 5 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 6 | The fights were playful , obviously intended to goad the police . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) Moreover in all the circumstances the power which the landlord insisted upon to deprive the applicants of exclusive occupation was a pretence only intended to deprive the applicants of the protection of the Rent Acts . |
| 8 | The C&G claims the cash distribution is merely designed to bring the reserves of the two societies in line . |
| 9 | The MDU rallies prompted the government and party to announce a number of measures obviously designed to placate the demonstrators . |
| 10 | One only has to consider the markets for restaurant meals , motor cars and clothes to realize that there are more than two successful cost-quality mixes available in a number of industries . |
| 11 | He obviously wants to see the Christians in the capital city of the empire . |
| 12 | They present a critical agenda involved in a current cultural confrontation — questioning the ideological partiality of a neo-conservative critical perspective , which apparently refuses to confront the terms on which it asserts its authenticity and which limits the range of cultural artefacts it will admit as civilised discourse . |
| 13 | We only had a few paving slabs but a large area to cover , so decided to lay the slabs in islands . |
| 14 | In posing these questions I am not necessarily wanting to provide the answers , and it may be that there are no simple answers to some of these questions . |
| 15 | Teesside TEC chief executive John Howell said Astra had apparently decided to tell the trainees their courses were to be curtailed . |
| 16 | Plasma is apparently used to raise the levels of protein in the body and blood to raise the level of oxygen , but both it appears are equally unacceptable to a committed Jehovah 's Witness as being , or being derived from , the body tissues of another . |
| 17 | Soils based on limestone or sandstone are naturally more alkaline , and because of their high calcium content are better equipped to buffer the effects of dry and wet acid deposition . |
| 18 | But Chevenement has created a body which is better equipped to achieve the objectives laid down in the law . |
| 19 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 20 | Pills and potions are only going to remove the symptoms . |
| 21 | Military equipment which had belonged to the East German army had been supplied to Turkey during the Gulf war in 1991 on condition that it was only used to defend the borders of Turkey or other NATO member-states . |
| 22 | They 've merely got to sort the clues out when they get there . |
| 23 | where the landlord personally intends to occupy the premises for business or residence , and has been the landlord for five years or more ; |
| 24 | The ‘ Bouncers ’ , as they quickly became known , raised £70 , and they would especially like to thank the participants of Horley Rally , who spontaneously and generously supported the Bouncers ' efforts . |
| 25 | Although he vehemently denied being a fascist , merely wishing to purge the Conservatives of all Jewish influence , his unparliamentary statements expressed to the NL and his connection with the Tyler Kent affair in 1940 left considerable room for doubt . |
| 26 | It occurred to me that my doctor was only employed to treat the symptoms of our health problems in the same way as our landlord was only treating the symptoms of the dampness . |
| 27 | When he did wake , Moran reached his hand across to the coarse shirt over the shoulder and gently began to knead the muscles . |
| 28 | Many of his fellow British actors — throughout the years — only affected to despise the movies : they themselves were not asked to do them or , if asked , played minor roles or did not get the hang of it at all . |
| 29 | With the nuclear ship constantly manoeuvring to avoid the dinghies , the crew refused to stop dropping the drums over the side . |
| 30 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |