Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place potatoes in just sufficient water to cover , bring to the boil , then simmer slowly to prevent the potatoes falling apart . |
| 2 | The programmer may choose a long-distance view of the whole execution space of a program , a reduced view as an AND/OR tree , or zoom in to see the details of a single call . |
| 3 | For example , proposals such as those to base service provision on charges or vouchers are impractical and tend only to increase the differences between the services available in different areas and to shift the costs from the more visible budgets of the services to the less visible ones of the individual , relatively powerless consumer : either their pockets or their time and energy will be hit . |
| 4 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |
| 5 | Of ice cream warm enough to warm the hands on . |
| 6 | The majority of the consultative members now support a mining ban , with the possible exception of Britain and Japan who appear still to favour the minerals convention . |
| 7 | Having looked at some of the major developments in encouraging teachers , and others , to review the curriculum , we want now to consider the issues raised by such a review . |
| 8 | In idle moments or when there is not a lot going on on the dump , they fly across to annoy the birds on the pools . |
| 9 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 10 | Users tend not to see the errors because they 're corrected by the network software , but the need for retries slows things down . |
| 11 | erm Well the schools communicate , but they tend not to tell the parents the obvious things . |
| 12 | You walk on to climb the slopes of Bulkeley Hill from where you head for the village of Bickerton and on the heathland of Bickerton Hill . |
| 13 | They seek merely to tackle the effects of surpluses , not the causes . ’ |
| 14 | The teams cut carefully to ensure the rushes continue to thrive . |
| 15 | Two brick arches put up to channel the waters of an underground river have been uncovered for the first time in nearly two hundred years . |
| 16 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 17 | unc unc Count carefully to find the positions . |
| 18 | That is why we know that people will not only feel that it is unfair and understand that it is unfair , but will at the general election bring home to roost the chickens that many Tory Members will be voting on at 10 pm tonight . |
| 19 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 20 | A variety of horses and riders demonstrate how to ride the fences but as Lucinda herself is such a joy to watch cross country , it was sad that she did n't demonstrate the jumping herself . |
| 21 | Every hour the assistant on duty had to read the instruments , make a note of the wind speed and direction , the visibility , the cloud , precipitation ( if any ) , and whether the barometer was rising or falling , and then stand by to teletype the details in code to Group Headquarters , who in turn would transmit it to Bomber Command . |
| 22 | At Tesco 's sorry but the man , men they get in to clean the tops of the ovens are contractors |
| 23 | we just get together to enjoy the videos |
| 24 | On all sides the air is filled with music and a mixture of languages as young people from all over Europe get together to enjoy the pleasures of this picturesque resort that has so much to offer in such a small space — last year we counted over 15 different hostelries , none more than five minutes walk from each other ! |
| 25 | Troops fan out to protect the vehicles against attack , while the launch crew prepares the missiles . |
| 26 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 27 | They set out to create the conditions where two hydrogen nuclei ( ‘ protons ’ ) could get close to each other , collide and join to make a nucleus of helium . |
| 28 | Functional courses set out to list the purposes for which students might wish to use language , and then to teach them how to do so . |
| 29 | In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality ! |
| 30 | They set out to discover the names and fiefs of all lords and knights resident within the county , their liege lords , and the services each owed to the count . |