Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it accepts , it thereby agrees to purchase the item for cash from the trader and at the same time agrees to transfer it on hire-purchase terms to the customer . |
| 2 | Some Italian once wrote that the critic secretly wants to kill the writer . |
| 3 | He badly wants to complete the task and continues hoping to pick up more lift on the way . |
| 4 | We will go further , and will create a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency to bring together powers to ensure the quality of our air , rivers and bathing waters . |
| 5 | ‘ He only wants to see the child enjoy herself with her friends . ’ |
| 6 | In this case the user only needs to specify the bucket size required from the alternatives provided , as the formatting and addressing have already been carried out by the manufacturer . |
| 7 | If the community really wants to tackle the problems of alcohol abuse it merely has to encourage the government to push up the cost of alcohol beyond the point of everyday affordability . |
| 8 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 9 | If the process is running , this will set up the required logical names and symbols , and the user then only has to type the symbol , specified by USERACCESSLOGICAL , to be connected to the process ( see Section 2.4 , LIFESPAN Configuration File ) . |
| 10 | Then the promoter only has to pay the band the guaranteed fee plus costs . |
| 11 | A boy who deliberately punctures another child 's bicycle tyre not only has to repair the tyre , but also must oil and polish the entire vehicle . |
| 12 | Like a wine connoisseur who only has to sniff the vintage to know how good it is , a cat can learn all it wants to know without actually trying the food . |
| 13 | When preparing it , the archaeologist not only has to consider the text , but also what illustrations to include . |
| 14 | Now the holder of speculative balances not only has to consider the yield on close substitutes such as bonds , but he also has to take into account any prospective capital gains or losses which may accrue when buying the bond . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He obviously wants to see the Christians in the capital city of the empire . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sadly the real contents of the phial will have to remain a mystery as the Roman Catholic church adamantly refuses to open the phial for scientific investigation , but as the Archbishop performed the rite last year and said ‘ … no chemist has yet been able to reproduce this phenomenon ’ , the Italian chemists were chuckling . |
| 19 | This makes them move away from each other and so tends to make the star expand . |
| 20 | where the landlord personally intends to occupy the premises for business or residence , and has been the landlord for five years or more ; |
| 21 | Already it has a licence arrangement with object maven Hyperdesk Corp and apparently intends to use the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker . |
| 22 | Already it has a license arrangement with object maven Hyperdesk Corp and apparently intends to use the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker . |
| 23 | He had never had heroin before , but he knew enough junkies to recognise the effects . |
| 24 | It merely seems to stimulate the body to produce more and more to match the daily need . |
| 25 | On my sweater I have included Swiss darning , knots ( for the small white flowers ) , long stitches to create the ferns and large white flowers . |
| 26 | This only appears to include the occupancy duty . |
| 27 | Water imparts turgor to cells and tissues and so helps to maintain the shape of an organism . |
| 28 | Programmed ventricular stimulation not only helps to guide the selection of antiarrhythmic drug therapy but also provides important prognostic information . |
| 29 | With regard to the gradual exploration of historical time , reading not only helps to develop the concept of periods of time and of progression ( if not progress ) , but it also ( through the historical novel ) enables the reader to ‘ feel what it was like ’ . |
| 30 | This not only helps to keep the bloodlines pure , but also to avoid possible disappointment , as it may well be that the different types are as reluctant to interbreed as the morphs of Ps. zebra . |