Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 2 | It acquired its stake in the early 1980s , hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group . |
| 3 | For the growth of a forest , the fires have to be stopped and some enrichment planting of early successional species tried , e.g. Canarium zeylanicum ( Burseraceae ) , Artocarpus nobilis ( Moraceae ) and Vitex pinnata ( Verbenaceae ) , etc. to restore the tree cover . |
| 4 | These two equations can be solved numerically to find the equilibrium load , ( ) , ( ) . |
| 5 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 6 | Machines , computers , materials of all kinds , and labour all have to be blended together to enable the production system to carry out its operations in a cost-effective way . |
| 7 | Likewise we suspect , from the ignorance he displays in scene one of Chetwyn and his work , that his praise of Chetwyn 's university , in the next scene , is given merely to uphold the approbation maxim and thus the Politeness Principle . |
| 8 | Stand close enough to see the column form and you will probably be pelted with near-boiling water . |
| 9 | Make sure these holes are large enough to accommodate the strain relief bushes to be fitted later . |
| 10 | Dig a hole wide and deep enough to accommodate the root system without undue bending and fill it with water . |
| 11 | Finally , Medau News readers will be happy to hear that Beryl Beddow 's thyroid operation was successful , and she was well enough to attend the Lilleshall Course in May . |
| 12 | In short , therefore , the best advice for combating jet-lag is to adopt a new routine in accord with your new time zone , to strengthen all possible time-cues , and so to reset the body clock as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 14 | Mafart 's illness can not have been very serious because he was well enough to sit the entrance examination to France 's elite School of War where he won a place in March 1988 . |
| 15 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 16 | A foolish general might surround his Pump Wagon with friendly units only to see the machine crunch through his own lines in the first turn ! |
| 17 | They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke . |
| 18 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 19 | He would of course estimate the supply prices of all these different factors of production of the cloth with reference to the amounts of each of them that would be wanted , and on the supposition that the conditions of supply would be normal ; and he would add them all together to find the supply price of the cloth . |
| 20 | Bernard and Laura 's attitudes were still coloured by the historical evolution of the business , manufacturing led , and believed their shops existed only to absorb the manufacturing capacity . |
| 21 | The CNAA 's provisional Committee for Art and Design was willing only to accept the Honours Associateship for a classified honours degree , and the Associateship for an unclassified degree . |
| 22 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 23 | It must never be lost sight of that the objective of an R&D project is not only to meet the target performance specification but , equally importantly , to produce and prove a design that can be manufactured efficiently and exploited profitably . |
| 24 | Like you , we are committed to the NHS , and there is an enormous reserve of goodwill that you could be harnessing ; just show some evidence that you appreciate the nature of the problems we are facing , and we can all work together to establish the quality service that our patients rightly demand . |
| 25 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 26 | All the more reason perhaps to increase the franchising activity north of Watford . |
| 27 | The Ukrainian authorities have appealed to the UN and national governments for assistance not only to dismantle the Chernobyl plant but to wind down the republic 's whole nuclear programme . |
| 28 | He knew the hospital well enough to find the side ward without difficulty . |
| 29 | What a terrible indictment on the medical profession if it pillories those of its members who are brave enough to find the research evidence to support what many have suspected but few have challenged . |
| 30 | Cursing the Post Office and the weather in equal proportions , ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan slowly brought the aircraft around and with a considerable tailwind we headed back to Moose Jaw only to find the airport building deserted except for the night watchman huddled by his coal-oil heater with the mail-bags beside him . |