Example sentences of "[to-vb] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 20 THINGS YOU NEED TO PRETEND TO KNOW ABOUT THE '70s |
| 2 | Certainly we do not need to try to go into the whole causal history of an event in order to specify something — one of the many sets of things — that had the property of making the occurrence of the event necessary . |
| 3 | All reviewers have to try to stand outside the immediate context of their listening , but that can be hard to do at the same time as keeping all emotional wavelengths open . |
| 4 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 5 | The Tudeh Party appears initially to have decided to try to work within the new system , but was later subjected to pressure , especially in 1984 . |
| 6 | Sobibor was the scene of the biggest prison escape of the Second World War when six hundred Jews rose against their guards to try to escape to the surrounding forest . |
| 7 | With a corporation that is in trouble a lot of actions might make things worse so the natural tendency is to try to escape from the present troubles by setting a specific objective and moving towards that . |
| 8 | Unless those eight masked High Masters were sufficiently confident in their associates to try to journey to the next galaxy and back — in some incredible megaship — to take advantage of time-compression ! |
| 9 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 10 | It is not for me here to try to account for the common features of movements so different in nature as those we have mentioned . |
| 11 | Gedanken remembered the tunnel along which she had to pass to get to the Imaginary Universes Laboratory . |
| 12 | We had 160 golfers coming off the course at once to try to change in the little clubhouse . |
| 13 | Freed from having to try to learn about the intimate details of the businesses they are serving , librarians and information scientists can then direct their energies to trying to improve the general accessibility and availability of publicly available information of relevance to business activity . |
| 14 | At every stage , the media must insist upon its right to investigate and to print public interest stories ; if it is right in its identification of the public interest , it is unlikely to come to harm in the long run . |
| 15 | British Rail will meet RMT union leaders today to try to head off the planned stoppage on April 2 — the same day as miners are on strike over the coal crisis . |
| 16 | This is done by , among other things , the sharing of stories , exchange of gossip , and a friendly and very sharp banter ( at which policemen are very good ) , during which sergeants sometimes have to struggle to rise above the one-line wit and are often themselves forced to succumb ( on the use of rituals at the beginning of work in American police departments see Niederhoffer 1967 ) . |
| 17 | In the end I decided to try to speak to the old man again . |
| 18 | On this definition , the task of the EC is to continue to serve as the chief engine of economic growth in Europe , an engine characterised by high performance , high output , high quality and ( agriculture excepted ) low running costs . |
| 19 | In 1985 all new students were invited to volunteer to study on the parallel track . |
| 20 | Although the Dons have to sell to survive in the Premier League , they have been alerted they could get £1m-rated Andersson — he scored against Germany in the European Championship semi-finals — for nothing . |
| 21 | Under her bare toes the floor felt real and solid , and although she was lonely and sad she knew she was going to choose to return to the real and solid world . |
| 22 | If these proportions were to continue to apply to the projected household population , the proportion of owner-occupier households would fall from 58 per cent in 1981 to 55 per cent in 2001 ( including allowance for difference in concepts of married male heads and married couple households ) . |
| 23 | I expect demand for this service to continue to grow over the coming year . |
| 24 | A long-term government plan came to fruition at the beginning of 1990 when it was announced that Taiwan was to apply to accede to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 25 | Television companies may to prefer to err on the safe side rather than to put their profits at risk by incurring sanctions of this order . |
| 26 | It is true that the shareholders would make an impact if they were to agree to vote in the same way , but this will usually involve the costs of educating and obtaining the co-operation of other shareholders being borne by individual activist members , and these are likely to outweigh the benefits that will be captured by them , since any increase in the value of the company attributable to intervention will be distributed among the shareholders as a whole . |
| 27 | They establish a structured approach to the management of health and safety and make more explicit what employers have to do to comply with the general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act and as such they provide a very useful tool in our efforts to improve health and safety at work . |
| 28 | The interception angle to use to get onto the desired track will be twice the number of degrees off track . |
| 29 | I am sure you will agree that it is in the best interests of the traditions of our society that there should be these circumspect checks and controls on what a public authority is permitted to do to interfere in the private lives of individuals , but at the same time it does make it difficult to act promptly and , in certain cases , and this must be one of them , one can only regret the outcome . ’ |
| 30 | … even after the Revolutionary Democratic Government is constituted , we will have to continue to fight against the traditional attitudes of men and women . |