Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NDO will be happy to help and/or make the necessary arrangements . |
| 2 | Soviet friendship and cooperation treaties with Third World states were intended to displace or counteract the existing alignments and alliances between these states and the Western powers . |
| 3 | The possession of good health is increasingly equated with moral virtue : those who continue to " choose " to smoke , drink or eat the wrong foods are irresponsible and deserving of their fate . |
| 4 | Distinctive features of the sitter , his eyes and hands for example , are rendered with a greater degree of naturalism , and these , together with the stimuli provided by other details such as a button on M. Kahnweiler 's coat , a lock of hair , or the still life to the side of him , permit a reconstruction of the subject and his surroundings ; ( one of the New Caledonian sculptures owned by Picasso appears in a ghost-like form to the left of the sitter ) ; and these more realistic touches in turn forced the painter to restore or preserve the naturalistic proportions of the figure . |
| 5 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 6 | It would be most unwise for the Church to ignore or discount the far-reaching changes which have taken place in school music since World War II . |
| 7 | Lesioning the hippocampus , however , profoundly damages the rat 's capacity to learn or remember the spatial cues and thus dramatically impairs its capacity to work out an effective escape route in the tank . |
| 8 | The easiest way to exercise this type of control over index terms is to list or store the acceptable terms in a vocabulary . |
| 9 | To reduce the complexities and costs of complying with a number of different requirements in different member states , the Community may co-ordinate , approximate or harmonise the relevant rules of national law , that is to say , lay down rules which must be adopted by all the member states . |
| 10 | ( Note : You might wish to use scrap paper for this ‘ processing ’ exercise , so that you can later throw away or burn the negative thoughts and beliefs . ) |
| 11 | 2.4 " Common Parts " means any malls and other pedestrian ways concourses and circulation areas staircases escalators ramps and lifts service roads loading bays forecourts and other ways and areas in the Centre which are from time to time during the Term provided by the Landlord for common use by customers frequenting the Centre and by the Tenants and the occupiers of the Centre or persons expressly or by implication authorised by them Although it is highly unlikely that the landlord would so amend or alter the common parts to make it impossible for the tenant to carry on its business , the following additional wording may be considered : |
| 12 | To elect or re-elect the undermentioned directors : H E Fitzgibbons P F Retief I G Thorburn P C D Burnell J N Sheldrick |
| 13 | John 's case also suggests how the perceptions of those professionals involved at an early stage of an assessment and the actions that follow may influence , direct or constrain the later perceptions and actions of other professionals . |
| 14 | The impact of acidic precipitation on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems depends not simply on the pH value of the precipitation but also on the capability of lakes and soils to neutralize or buffer the acidic inputs of the precipitation . |
| 15 | Since the whole sequence of events begins with an external event , one option is to identify what external events tend to trigger unproductive feelings and to arrange to avoid or change the external events themselves . |
| 16 | A very small number of text types , such as poems , advertisements , and jokes , will occasionally manipulate or flout the grammatical rules of the language to create special effect . |
| 17 | One particular difficulty in assessing change over time is that any differences between the two assessments will be influenced by a host of ex-traneous factors which may either conceal or exaggerate the real changes in the child 's language . |
| 18 | It required twenty or more social work staff — plus three senior professional officers — to develop or support the new services created in Nottinghamshire . |
| 19 | Realistic goals , mutually agreed with the patient when this is possible , could then be set to prevent potential problems from becoming actual ones ; to alleviate or solve the actual problems ; or to help the person cope with those which can not be alleviated or solved . |
| 20 | Mutual , realistic goals can then be set to prevent potential problems from becoming actual ones ; to alleviate or solve the actual problems ; or to help the patient cope with those which can not be alleviated or solved . |
| 21 | The disclosure letter is sometimes drafted in such a way as effectively totally to modify or negate the negotiated warranties . |
| 22 | The jobs necessary to maintain or replace the important parts of these systems are all covered , many with step-by-step illustrated guides . |
| 23 | This enabled all attempts at inquiry into the FBI to be squashed , on the ground that they would inhibit or endanger the vital operations of the bureau . |
| 24 | When a part of the body becomes infected the immune system comes into play , rushing white blood cells and immune proteins to the scene of the infection in an attempt to inactivate or kill the invading organisms and to clear up the damage . |
| 25 | While most of this was routine , the Secretary was in a position to expedite or delay the royal grants of patronage which had to pass the Signet . |
| 26 | In London , and later in all major cities , new impervious trunk sewers were built on scientific principles to replace or intercept the old ducts and to ensure that all sewage was discharged downstream . |
| 27 | In this view , the solution to pauperism lay in ‘ eugenics ’ , defined by its founder , Francis Galton , as ‘ the study of agencies under social control which may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations ’ . |
| 28 | The concept of eugenics was defined by its founder , Francis Galton , in the early 1880s as the ‘ study of those agencies under social control , which may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations . ’ |
| 29 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |
| 30 | However , the effectiveness of the Trade Boards Act is uncertain since the capacity of the Board of Trade to inspect and supervise the large numbers of small workshops , still less the women out-workers , was extremely limited . |