Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 2 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 3 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 4 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 6 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 7 | Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |
| 9 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 10 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 11 | To catch the offending shrimp , it is often necessary to strip down the entire tank , rock by rock , until it is found . |
| 12 | Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage . |
| 13 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |
| 14 | If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ? |
| 15 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 16 | ( For details on how to drain down the central heating system , see Chapter 13 . ) |
| 17 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 18 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 19 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 20 | The new aqueduct was necessary to allow ships to pass on the new Manchester Ship Canal . |
| 21 | Finally , the whole of the Gospel leads to the commission of the Church , to go out and baptise , to teach , and to pass on the new law of Christianity ( Matt. |
| 22 | As the original solute is successively diluted , so the mirroring , shape-specific water polymers build up and continue to pass on the shape-encoded information to successive potencies long after the original starting material has been diluted out . |
| 23 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 24 | If one person in a twin room cancels , we reserve the right to pass on the full cost of the twin room to the person using that room . |
| 25 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 26 | If the Minister is saying that the proposal is liable to bog down the entire system and cause administrative chaos , he may be right as regards some of the effects . |
| 27 | You need to jot down the main purpose , headings , ideas … then build your structure before you begin . |
| 28 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 29 | One girl stopped the others to ask advice about how to write down the ghostly sound of a door opening . |
| 30 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |