Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be a professional is to exercise ( and most importantly to have the ability to exercise ) one 's professional skills and to make professional decisions , without deference to moral , religious or political beliefs and points of view . |
| 2 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 3 | It is Christian Lacroix who seems most acutely to express the spirit of the age . |
| 4 | If you can , plan to use a tripod ; with the camcorder firmly secured , you will then be able to zoom right in to fill the screen with individual baubles and still be placed to get good normal close-ups as well as wider shots of your performers absorbed in their task . |
| 5 | The intent is rather merely to summarize the account of his life as given by Taskopruzade and Mecdi in order to convey the general course of his career . |
| 6 | He told us that it was all right to study the evolution of the universe after the big bang , but we should not inquire into the big bang itself because that was the moment of Creation and therefore the work of God . |
| 7 | Right , no it it 's all right to stuff the elephant , but but we thought we 'd better not stop the human being as well . |
| 8 | Australia , New Zealand , Pakistan , the Philippines , Thailand , Great Britain and France came together additionally to sign the South East Asia Treaty Organisation ( SEATO ) Pact in Manila in September 1954 . |
| 9 | Ghia trim heralds a huge list of goodies , but perhaps only to turn the attention away from the lacklustre dynamics . |
| 10 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 11 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 12 | For a final shot , pull back to a wider view of the scene and hold this for long enough to mark the winding-up of the sequence . |
| 13 | That evening I managed to stay awake long enough to watch the video . |
| 14 | Every year the total amount of pollutants emitted by vehicles in the UK would fill a tunnel 10 metres wide and long enough to encircle the earth . |
| 15 | ‘ Following the failure of the stabiliser rear spar top chord , the structure could not sustain the flight loads imposed upon it long enough to enable the failure to be detected by the then existing inspection schedule . |
| 16 | ‘ If Charles had hung around long enough to notice the state I saw you in , he 'd have thought the worst had happened , Virginia . |
| 17 | Maclean , perhaps fortunately , did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up . |
| 18 | First , the arguments for and against are so soporifically dull that no one will ever stay interested long enough to sort the question out . |
| 19 | This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record . |
| 20 | They say that although sulphur dioxide may play a role in climate change , its effect is unlikely to be sufficiently widespread or to last long enough to offset the influence of the greenhouse gases . |
| 21 | Nails , getting the taste of it , stopped being terrified and began to keep his eyes open long enough to judge the thoroughbred 's stride as he approached a jump and to know when he was going to stand off and when he was going to put a quick one in . |
| 22 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 23 | I 've never had any difficulty sleeping and I try to stay awake long enough to see the cancer in my mind 's eye . |
| 24 | He was with the Post Office long enough to see the withdrawal and eventual reinstatement of the handy Sunday collections . |
| 25 | But if I were a free agent , I think what I 'd do now is keep Rainbow hammering away at this lost cause just long enough to put the wind up those damned smug ben Issachars . |
| 26 | Except of course … ’ she broke off to toss back the rest of the whisky and set the tumbler down on Hugo 's desk , ‘ except of course that I do n't suppose I shall be here long enough to make the adjustment . ’ |
| 27 | Stand the tin of syrup in hot water just long enough to make the syrup thin , runny and warm — not hot . |
| 28 | Two Russian boys , being educated at Downs School near Malvern in Worcestershire , have been in Britain long enough to learn the language , one of them proud to interpret . |
| 29 | Gilmour hit back : ‘ Pat Clinton does n't stop working long enough to have the time to use his head . |
| 30 | ‘ College men ’ or ‘ academics ’ are considered to be potentially dangerous and polluting because of their limited understanding of the ‘ polis 's ’ real world ; for they never stay long enough to experience the depth and complexities of the activities which lend him his ‘ special knowledge ’ . |