Example sentences of "[to-vb] [to-vb] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to continue to promote the health and well-being of our community but the introduction of a millionaire 's card scheme will not work . |
| 2 | From his point of view he had asked to go to see the gorillas and he had been told ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 3 | So they will continue to arise , but I think that it is right to plan to accommodate the ones that you know about . |
| 4 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 5 | Like many others during his age , Spenser developed a variety of tactics to try to fudge the fact that England was ruled by a woman . |
| 6 | The experiments of Dr O'Shaughnessy and others during the cholera of 1831–2 show that the amount of water in the blood was very much diminished in proportion to the solid constituents , as also were the salts Well , the basis of my treatment of cholera is quite simply to try to restore the fluid and salts which have been lost from the blood , by injecting solutions of carbonate of soda or phosphate of soda into the blood vessels . |
| 7 | I chose to try to see the system and situation in a more rural area of Mexico . |
| 8 | Concern for this issue has recently surfaced in studies that were indeed set up originally to try to isolate the factors that determine which among a selected sample of children are likely later in life to have a schizophrenic breakdown . |
| 9 | B has to try to find the keys and get them out of the circle before being hit by A. If the Keeper hits B s/he wins . |
| 10 | ‘ I am practising hard to try to find the answer and I am playing in several events in the next few weeks and hope it comes right . ’ |
| 11 | This in turn has led clinicians to try to identify the factors that might be responsible for poor clinical results . |
| 12 | And all the lies that I told you were to try to escape the lie that was my life . |
| 13 | It is now part of the history of this country that many people came here to try to avoid the holocaust that Nazi Germany became . |
| 14 | The latter part of this subclause is inserted to try to avoid the difficulty that could arise where a landlord declines to accept rent in order not to waive a breach of covenant by the tenant , which it has been suggested could have a similar effect of releasing the guarantor , but this is not certain . |
| 15 | There are , basically , two philosophies about competitors ' media selection : to compete in the same media , because ‘ we must be seen to compete ’ or because it is the only really possible medium or ( even ) because ‘ they must know something ’ ; or to try to avoid the competition and to ‘ dominate ’ a reasonable alternative medium . |
| 16 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 17 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 18 | It was a generous gesture to try to ease the tension and relax a fellow professional . |
| 19 | Erm this can only exasasberate er an already difficult situation chairman , I do wonder whether the , the people that British Rail are trying to attract to use the service and , and do bear in mind that this County Council recently voted ten thousand pounds in subsidies er to er towards British Rail to enable people to travel on a Sunday . |
| 20 | Sir James , who as president of Sea Containers has expressed interest in some of BR 's busiest routes in the South East , says it would be ‘ hopeless ’ to try to run the railways as in the past . |
| 21 | What criteria should any experiment we made try to meet to satisfy the claim that the process we were studying was a necessary , sufficient and possibly even specific aspect of the memory formation process ? |
| 22 | Police and motoring organisations issued urgent appeals to try to stem the flow and one city even urged : ‘ Stay away — we 're full . ’ |
| 23 | Crowds of people were rushing the other way , towards the conflagration , to try to stem the fire before it spread to the other wooden buildings by the river . |
| 24 | ‘ We want to try to model the economies that can be realised from downsizing by studying particular cases . ’ |
| 25 | This latter tactic often succeeds because of the unwillingness of the deaf person to try to force the point or to contradict the hearing person . |
| 26 | They need to come to appreciate the changes that electricity has made to people 's lives . |
| 27 | At this stage , do n't be tempted to try to turn the model as this will inevitably lead you into a difficult situation with which you will not be able to cope . |
| 28 | The Department of Education and Science , the Local Education Authority , potential employers and a whole host of other organisations bring pressure to bear to influence the direction that schools take and all these pressure groups demand speedy and effective responses . |
| 29 | Since there are four main types of housing tenure — renting from a local authority , owner-occupation , renting from a private landlord and renting from a housing association — and the government intervenes , or has intervened , to try to influence the quality and cost of each type , policy implementation is often a very complex matter . |
| 30 | The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms . |