Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had cultivated Marcel Mauss , Durkheim 's nephew , so that he could personally convey to her the importance of understanding the springs of human action . |
| 2 | Such is the notion uncritically entertained in the Alliance Report : competing candidates of the same party would make clear their differences on policy issues , and on the balanced slate so presented to him the voter would pick and choose . |
| 3 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 4 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 5 | The CBI , the British Institute of Management and the Institute of Personnel Management have all put to him the same point about single-union agreements . |
| 6 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 7 | When they get hold of me twice in the one day you say hang on I 've just given to you the bus ! |
| 8 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 9 | What some women are suggesting at Fem Sap — abolishing masculine endings overnight — just seems to me the wrong way of going about it . |
| 10 | Had already admitted to herself the extent of her own love for him . |
| 11 | We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus . |
| 12 | This heritage gave and still attributes to him the ability to move fast , avoiding all obstacles , to do his master 's bidding . |
| 13 | The topic of cohesion … has always appeared to me the most useful constituent of discourse analysis or text linguistics applicable to translation . |
| 14 | But it also provides something of the history of graphics , and the visual principles which have gradually evolved to which the technical artist should adhere . |
| 15 | When we eventually get to it the Visitor Centre there explains with diagrams and scientific data why this is the driest place in Australia . |
| 16 | Well , let's wait and hear wh what says , he 'll probably explain to you the history of why it is like this . |
| 17 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 18 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 19 | But we also attribute to him the power to mediate between those same concerns and the hostile forces of disease . |
| 20 | The Copenhagen school had made a special point of emphasising that one ought never to think of quantum mechanical systems without also annexing to them the array of classical measuring instruments with which it was proposed to make the observations . |
| 21 | Your response should also indicate to whom the memorandum should be sent and who will be the party we should address all future correspondence . |
| 22 | They 've also issued to me the appropriate er protective equipment as well and so that er they do n't you know , so I 'll assume that is on the way . |
| 23 | They met General Morandi , a soldier of fortune who had fought at Missolonghi , and who indignantly denied to them the calumny put about by the British aristocracy that Byron had deteriorated morally while in Greece : ‘ He was magnificent , ’ the General told them . |
| 24 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 25 | " Let me now read to you the conclusion of Dr Baly in his Report on Epidemic Cholera , drawn up at the desire of the Royal College of Physicians and published in 1854 . |
| 26 | Could you please explain to me the principle behind these phases ? |
| 27 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 28 | and then listen to it the second time and you go , ah ! |
| 29 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 30 | In fact one of the problems of a stratificational analysis is that it classifies women in a somewhat arbitrary manner , sometimes assigning to them the class of their husbands or fathers and sometimes determining their class by their own occupations . |