Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needs to try to see the subtler reasons for this mood . |
| 2 | The word ended in a wail , and Angelina ran to her to try to forestall a further attack of hysteria . |
| 3 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |
| 4 | Instead , I want to try to develop a further view of what it means to see criticism as a significant feature of higher education . |
| 5 | Thomas Cook has introduced a £1 deposit offer to try to capture a greater share of early summer holiday sales . |
| 6 | I used to record the bass , rhythm guitar and drums on three tracks and then bounce them down on to one ; then I 'd do two more guitar tracks to try to make a richer texture , then I 'd do one more main overdub on guitar , and finally two vocal tracks . |
| 7 | But Airbus now no longer needs McDonnell Douglas to help build a bigger version of the A320 ; nor does the American company need Airbus wings to fit on a bigger version of its MD-Il . |
| 8 | Ears to Hear has a broader scope which encompasses radio and television journalism . |
| 9 | Over the last six months or so I have attempted to present you with a series of practical objectives designed and constructed to help achieve a higher degree of thoroughness in your command of the Pentatonic scale . |
| 10 | It 's to help keep a better check on spending after complaints that some credit card outlets take too long getting signed slips to card issuers . |
| 11 | To help provide a sharper focus to current policy debates , and in preparation for a larger study of the effects of teacher education , this project will establish an up-to-date database on the nature of a range of approaches to initial teacher education . |
| 12 | The debate takes place as pressure mounts on the Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , to introduce a ‘ green tax ’ to help finance a cleaner environment . |
| 13 | The society works closely with landowners and other managers of the environment — foresters , farmers , water authorities — to help create a better countryside . |
| 14 | Er to adopt best practices , er from the various offices , to help produce a better end product . |
| 15 | When most of the helium in a star is used up , the nuclei begin to fuse to become the heavier elements at the core , liberating new energy . |
| 16 | It reads : ‘ We urge the government to give housing a higher priority , by making 100,000 affordable homes available each year , using both public and private housing , to meet rural and urban housing need ; by improving choice and quality of housing for all tenants ; by further measures to tackle homelessness especially among young people ; targeting government resources , such as mortgage interest relief , to those in greatest need . |
| 17 | They turned nomadic and mingled with the nomads of the Sudan , where they were to consider building a further house and perhaps settling down . |
| 18 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 19 | Dealers are worried that a minority government , which might have to consider seeking a firmer mandate by calling a second general election later in the year , would be hard pressed to keep sterling within its exchange rate mechanism bands during a period of continuing uncertainty . |
| 20 | Councillors may visit the Home Secretary later in the year to ask him to consider funding a greater proportion of the cost of the investigations , but chairman of the Police Committee , John Collins , warned they were unlikely to receive more than half of the sum . |
| 21 | This then is a convenient place to turn to consider the wider role of the police in relation to protest . |
| 22 | That is by and large true , but Hardie is not certain that men have taken it on board and he is keen for plenty of men to attend to get a better understanding of the position . |
| 23 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
| 24 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 25 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 26 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 27 | Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round . |
| 28 | Nor is Wilson likely to have forgotten an earlier incident in which a young lady in the cabinet office had to be charged and was convicted of supplying documents to a South African intelligence agent . |
| 29 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 30 | They know about it , not just in rhetoric but in reality , and they have the opportunity to get to know a wider range of young people than parents or any other professional group . |