Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 2 | Below the front windows was a box extension of about two feet in length , so placed as to increase the space of the interior . |
| 3 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 4 | On the other hand , pressure of whatever character , whether acting on the fears or the hopes , if so exerted as to overpower the volition without convincing the judgment , is a species of restraint under which no valid will can be made . |
| 5 | If this is done , the energy of the interface will not be greatly changed and to remove the hardened liquid mechanically will now need strain energy and therefore a mechanical force . |
| 6 | To hold a meeting to educate those who do not feel well enough informed and to allow the free flow of debate on all the issues . |
| 7 | In other words , you tend to notice behaviours that confirm the conclusion you have already reached and to ignore the behaviours that contradict it . |
| 8 | This study seeks to build on the foundations thus laid and to take the assessment of the importance of the railway station a step further . |
| 9 | However , it is generally acknowledged that to reduce the consumption of fat in our daily diet will almost certainly reduce the risk of heart disease along with other medical conditions . |
| 10 | Although the nineteenth century had seen almost all restrictions on Catholics removed , the loyalists of Ulster still believed that to accept the authority of the Pope was to open the way to papal domination and the erosion of civil liberty . |
| 11 | To maintain high gain down to zero frequency , the amplifier is directly coupled and to overcome the resulting problem of distinguishing between real and pseudo signals , due to , for example , bias or thermal variations , differential circuit techniques are adopted . |
| 12 | However , Trotsky also recognized that to effect the massive social change needed in the Soviet Union a professional , trained and expert apparatus was needed . |
| 13 | to institute a searching examination by a competent authority of every child in every school to which grants are to be paid with the view of ascertaining whether these indispensable elements of knowledge are thoroughly acquired and to make the prospects and position of the teacher dependent , to a considerable extent , on the results of this examination . |
| 14 | In the past decade , however , we have also learnt that to understand the physics of a solid we seldom need to know the ‘ complete structure ’ ; in most cases the ‘ local structure ’ is sufficient . |
| 15 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 16 | Mr Rowland may be right to think that the worst is over ; it is increasingly recognised that to expect the insurance industry to foot the entire bill for pollution would bankrupt it . |
| 17 | Both the interim President Joseph Nerette and the acting Prime Minister Jean Jacques Honorat had earlier argued that to approve the agreement would be unconstitutional , a view endorsed by the Supreme Court on March 27 . |
| 18 | Union representatives are particularly concerned to find out as many facts as possible to keep their members fully informed and to negotiate the best deal they can , both for those moving with the firm and those accepting redundancy . |
| 19 | The doubts were raised by councillor Brian Timms , who said he had read a press report stating that the council had not yet decided whether to support the scheme . |
| 20 | One insider believes the COSE firms have not yet decided whether to level the playing field at this technology point , or if systems management can be used an excuse for competitive advantage without hurting their collective drive against Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 21 | One insider believes that the Common Open Software Environment firms have not yet decided whether to level the playing field at this technology point , or if systems management can be used an excuse for competitive advantage without hurting their collective drive against Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT : ‘ Do they want to solve the problem is the question ? ’ asks the source , who is afraid that ‘ systems management was a COSE epitaph . ’ |
| 22 | The purpose of these notes is to assist all bodies to improve their applications , to ensure that they present the kind of information to justify grant aid previously offered and to strengthen the case for continued and/or increased grant aid . |
| 23 | It is only if the existing and permitted uses of the land are so seriously affected as to render the land incapable of reasonably beneficial use that the owner can take advantage of the purchase notice procedure . |