Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd never think so to read the papers recently , ’ Fiona pointed out , lines creasing her forehead . |
| 2 | SCOTVEC will need carefully to consider the validity and ease of operation of the new system , and whether it meets the needs of higher education and employers . |
| 3 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 4 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 5 | For hospital services the Medicare benefit is only 75% of the schedule fee , but patients can insure privately to cover the gap between benefit and fee . |
| 6 | She sent an oblique glance towards Silas , then said casually , ‘ Oh , I 'll probably chat brightly to entertain the raft parties when they arrive — which is what a good hostess should be doing . ’ |
| 7 | Here also is a new Member , Nick Hawkins ( Member for Blackpool South and a leading member of the Bow Group ) : ‘ From my involvement in European matters , I believe that I should say that I have great misgivings about the decision I will ultimately make tonight to support the Government and to support the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 8 | Others would prefer just to fuel the war — and make a quick buck at the same time . |
| 9 | When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say ‘ get rid of the kids ’ and they are only half joking . |
| 10 | It needs space to throw the dice and this is not practical in planes and trains where it can do most to relieve the boredom of a long journey . |
| 11 | The most frequent reason is that the chairperson gets too involved in the task and does n't do enough to manage the process . |
| 12 | Does the witness know how to contact you if they are going to be late ? ( 10 ) Do you do enough to help the witness get to court ; proper notice , instructions , map etc ? ( 11 ) Do you have a system for thanking witnesses regardless of whether they have to give evidence ? ( 12 ) Do you have an explanatory leaflet to give the witness ? |
| 13 | I found some cotton stuff that would do nicely to replace the sacking at our windows , and a pair of linen sheets . |
| 14 | Well I mean that , they do n't expect necessarily to see the evidence do they ? |
| 15 | They would do better to read the chapter ‘ Developments in Yugoslavia ’ in volume iii of Prof Hinsley 's official history of British intelligence , part one , for a refutation of the claim that Tito did not fight the Germans , supported by copious and conclusive quotations from Ultra |
| 16 | She 'd do better to throw the letter away unread , would n't she ? ’ |
| 17 | ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 6 ) We will do better to consider the objection that science does not in fact involve or make use of a conception of causal and other nomic connection . |
| 18 | Also , you may choose merely to fill the background with a solid colour ( up to 256 — 16 and 24 bit colour are not supported ) or use a graduated fill . |
| 19 | Nor will it do just to ignore the problem , for if one does one soon finds that one 's semantics is self-contradictory . |
| 20 | But it will not do just to dismiss the evidence of their experience out of hand . |
| 21 | Will she do more to publicise the results of the recent negotiations on that issue ? |
| 22 | ‘ We believe that the British Government must do more to oppose the job discrimination that has created unemployment levels two and a half times higher for Catholic workers than Protestant workers . |
| 23 | But he must do more to suppress the air of lawlessness that now abounds ( which would incidentally take the wind out of the Congress 's sails ) and persuade people that paying taxes is a social virtue ( which would then help balance Russia 's books ) . |
| 24 | Eliminating tax breaks on corporate entertaining would probably do more to break the power of keiretsu than beefing up Japan 's feeble antitrust laws or passing intricate rules on cross share-holdings . |
| 25 | Democratising pension funds , putting workers on the boards of companies , sponsoring the international worker networking described by Gary Herman in last week 's issue ( ‘ Hooked on IT ’ ) , and making foreign-language training obligatory for company executives ( as well as MPs , especially left Labour MPs ) would do more to make the economy socially progressive and productionist than any campaign to turn the pound into a peseta . |
| 26 | Some analysts hope that the government will do more to encourage the spread of private pension funds to supplement the state 's creaky pay-as-you-go retirement system . |
| 27 | WEALTHY businessmen who have benefited from low tax rates should do more to subsidise the arts , the chairman of the Arts Council said yesterday . |
| 28 | More than seventy years after his death and after all the books and shows which have been dedicated to him , one might expect that nothing of any importance would appear now to improve the idea we have of his life and his work . |
| 29 | There 's nothing that we can say or do here to add the distinction , to add distinction er to what was done here forty years ago . |
| 30 | Orrell will do well to heed the challenge of Bates , Davies , Clough and Lozowski . |