Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accepts as-if legal rights in that spirit and for reasons of strategy will make mostly the same decisions a conventionalist would make when statutes are plain or precedents crisp and decisive . |
| 2 | Therefore , simply to represent Jesus as the Good Shepherd without any explanatory note would convey entirely the wrong impression . |
| 3 | It has no calories of its own , but it does slow down the metabolic rate , making it harder to burn up the calories you do consume . |
| 4 | However , if weight loss is excessive , then muscle tissue rather than fat tissue is lost , and this in turn will slow down the metabolic rate , making it more difficult to lose weight thereafter . |
| 5 | Better sacks have bound seams which do at least slow down the leaking process . |
| 6 | Vitamin E : research shows that it interrupts the free radical chain of destruction and so can slow down the ageing process . |
| 7 | Here the examiner will probably have divided up the possible marks in his mind among the component parts , and an answer to one part , be it ever so brilliant , can earn only the appropriate total for that part . |
| 8 | There is , however , no clear one-to-one relationship between discourse type and sender and receiver , and for many words denoting discourse type ( song , for example , or article ) we can make only the vaguest connections . |
| 9 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 10 | I suspect part of the reason behind the council buying the ground in 1983 ? was so they could knock down the old rugby league stadium . |
| 11 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 12 | The privatisation will affect only the long-distance element of the network , which is run over lines leased from both British Telecom and Mercury . |
| 13 | Here we can consider only the final versions . |
| 14 | In this section we shall consider only the simplest type , that is temperature-composition phase diagrams of liquid mixtures which form a simple eutectic . |
| 15 | If you are aiming almost for pure comedy , then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense . |
| 16 | Oot there fur hours tryin' tae strip doon the lavvy seat . |
| 17 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 18 | But now the old paternalism began to reassert itself , determined that whatever shackles had been placed around the BBC should also tie down the commercial companies . |
| 19 | ‘ We need to improve and update constantly the contracting system , ’ she said . |
| 20 | We can now consider individually the different methods of incorporation . |
| 21 | So he hired a lorry , bribed the demolition men to let him cart away the finest doorcases , moulded corner cupboards , cornices and chimney pieces and stored them in a London County Council Historic Buildings warehouse at his own expense . |
| 22 | While managers will pursue broadly the same tasks , they will do so in an increasing variety of ways . |
| 23 | No , let's concentrate not the spectacular disasters — the dysentery and drug busts — but the everyday , inherent hellishness of the holiday perse . |
| 24 | Can one really strip away the lexical component leaving behind a non-verbal residue which has nothing to do with communication in words ? |
| 25 | We will discuss shortly the social significance which the Chicago urban sociologists attached to the these zones . |
| 26 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
| 27 | Instead of blaming one partner we should drum home the essential message that parents have equal responsibilities . |
| 28 | I could buy up the whole block . |
| 29 | Management must always consider both the short- term and longer-term consequences of their actions . |
| 30 | We will lighten up the dreary Brighton sky and dim the fluorescent pier . ’ |