Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 2 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
| 3 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 4 | The successful birds had two young which were feathered well enough to show the black bar along the grey wings which distinguishes immature kittiwakes . |
| 5 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 6 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 7 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 8 | Still clad in her tattered working clothes , her wellingtons pumped away assiduously to give the instrument the breath it required . |
| 9 | Much later in the book I had a small scene in which one character is seen just about to tell the murderer , who was not conceivably present when the Maharajah perpetrated his joke , what had happened . |
| 10 | The body was moved once more to make the pockets accessible and Fox searched them — there were only those in his trousers ; he was wearing a cardigan in place of a jacket . |
| 11 | In later records , notably the census returns of 1841 and 1851 , he was said more specifically to follow the trade of fancy weaver , that is the manufacture of waistcoats and other garments with decorative patterns . |
| 12 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 13 | Unless the United Nations is prepared actually physically to keep the peace , the federal forces have every incentive to maintain military operations against Croatia . |
| 14 | The Kiwi coach has done very well to help the game reach communist China ( see July issue of RW&P , pages 56 and 57 ) where there are hopes that rugby might be introduced to the Chinese armed forces . |
| 15 | " You 've done very well to get the thing cleared up so quickly , " I said . |
| 16 | The reality of life at passenger-level , mentioned only indirectly , could have been examined more thoroughly to determine the efficiency of British Rail 's service delivery , surely the basis for its existence . |
| 17 | Objectives and strategies can remain valid for many years but the long-term plans to achieve them need to be revised more frequently to reflect the up-to-date position of the organisation and its environment . |
| 18 | It is to be hoped that data-base technology can be developed quickly enough to meet the imminent requirements for data management in very large hyper-bases . |
| 19 | Except for marine products , the few goods that polar regions yield are seldom valued highly enough to offset the high costs and risks of exploiting them . |
| 20 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 21 | Union researchers must be used more systematically to support the party 's work . |
| 22 | The RSPCA hopes it has acted quickly enough to prevent the abuse of this new type of farm animal . |
| 23 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 24 | The nose then has to be hauled well up to break the descent rather than the aeroplane . |
| 25 | Their protagonists argue that the law of murder is so important socially that derogation from the principle of maximum certainty should be allowed in favour of more accurate labelling by the courts ; opponents argue that the principle of maximum certainty is needed here specifically to reduce the risk of verdicts based on discriminatory or irrelevant factors , such as distaste for the defendant 's background , allegiance , or other activities . |
| 26 | Sadly , the Board was virtually alone in this support , and to understand why , we must return for a moment to the sixties , when the test was used almost exclusively to curb the spread of erotica . |
| 27 | The children go into the hall and find a frame with the picture cut out of it ; an empty cash box ; or a desk and chairs overturned , papers strewn all over to give the impression of a ransacked office . |
| 28 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 29 | The Italians are experienced enough not to let the crowd unsettle them , but a combination of factors could have their effect . |
| 30 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |