Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peasants were authorized to parcel out the private estates while legal ownership of all land was vested in the State ; factory committees were given broad powers to vet the actions of management ; the minorities were granted the right of self-determination ; each regiment was authorized to negotiate armistice terms . |
| 2 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 3 | The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI . |
| 4 | , Chief Publicity Officer of the Scottish Office came to lunch here the other day and it was really good to see him . |
| 5 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 6 | The persuasion rests on the assumptions that the forms of consultation practised and of participation prompted by the best employers are a measure of industrial democracy , but not enough : that the representation of employees on company boards is necessary to establish complete industrial democracy ; that total industrial democracy , in this prescription , will so far improve industrial efficiency as to benefit materially the general interest ; and that the implicit loss or diminution of the rights of ownership should not be allowed to preclude the realisation of that benefit . |
| 7 | The capacity to recircuit neurophysiologically the ongoing experiencing of the senses in such a way that the subject becomes ‘ aware ’ of its situation through introspection of this analogue . |
| 8 | This precautionary demand for money will also be related to money incomes since : ( a ) the higher your regular income then normally the more expensive are the items you own , e.g. the Rolls-Royce is usually more expensive to repair than the Mini ; ( b ) if money incomes rise due to inflation then the same items cost more to replace or repair . |
| 9 | Burying his face into the warm living darkness of Wolf 's fur , he tried desperately to wall away the sickening pulse . |
| 10 | ‘ At least Sarah Chester Fabrics is one thing we have in common to while away the lazy Caribbean evenings , Miss Chester , whichever side of the fence we 're on . ’ |
| 11 | That had all been an act , partly to lull the Men into trusting him but also , Creggan now realized , to hide the same feelings as they all had in captivity : a game to while away the endless waiting . |
| 12 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 13 | Better , she believed , to while away the leaden hours until evening by talking again to three people . |
| 14 | Many different lines of evidence may be used to flesh out the bare bones of the fossils . |
| 15 | Anecdotes like this help to flesh out the inanimate objects we sell . |
| 16 | To flesh out the red sandstone skeleton — to recreate within the cusped ribs of the cadaver the durbars of Shah Jehan — I again opened Dr Jaffery 's copy of Bernier . |
| 17 | Those who would have fallen ill even under moderate sexual restrictions succumb to illness all the earlier and more severely under the demands of our present civilized sexual morality ; for we know no better security against the menace to normal sexual life caused by defective predisposition and disturbances in development than sexual satisfaction itself . |
| 18 | More specifically , they were to support the Conservative party as being the most likely to tum back the revolutionary tide . |
| 19 | Gradually you should be able to phase out the tangible reinforcers when tantrums are no longer a major part of her repertoire . |
| 20 | Now the European Community is hoping to phase out the green pound by 1992 , along with the M C A's . |
| 21 | ICI strongly supports the Montreal Protocol , an international agreement to phase out the dispersive use of ozone-depleting chemicals . |
| 22 | To date only the 2 inch version has been made by GEC while its main foreign rivals have already made the important wafer size adjustment — many more electronic devices can be made from each wafer . |
| 23 | One objective of the GISP2 programme , and the parallel European effort GRIP ( Greenland Icecore Project ) , is to date accurately the apparent shifts from glacial to interglacial conditions that have been observed in previous Greenland ice cores. et all . |
| 24 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 25 | The symptoms of over-contrast are not always easy to spot on the monochrome viewfinder picture , so it pays to be specially vigilant if the light is very bright . |
| 26 | If for instance this was a criminal trial as to which will rule this to inadmissibility exactly the same . |
| 27 | He did n't kill her but he 'll go to prison just the same . |
| 28 | And , because of sponsorship , you do n't have to fork out the whole £60 yourself . |
| 29 | At least she was n't being forced to fork out the three and a half thousand pounds . |
| 30 | Meanwhile farmers have no option but to fork out the ever-increasing premiums that insurers are demanding . |