Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright . |
| 2 | Irradiation of food does not conform to attempts to cut down the number and scale of radiation emitters in order to reduce the risks of contamination of plant workers and local communities . |
| 3 | LMS delegates to schools control over the major part of their budgets . |
| 4 | He issues an encyclical saying hard drugs should be made cheaply available to addicts to cut out the mobsters , and insists that every child ought to be a wanted child . |
| 5 | Poor umpiring decisions against Smith , Hick and Salisbury , all adjudged lbw to balls drifting down the leg side , did not help England 's cause in the first innings . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , by ‘ obey ’ Paul is not referring to servile obedience to an authoritarian master , but an injunction to workers to carry out the job an employer has for them to accomplish . |
| 7 | More recently , stories have circulated that mechanical or electrical faults in factories are due to gremlins taking over the working of machines . |
| 8 | Next came the mountains , their lower slopes cloaked in rain forest which had once covered the coastal plain but was now restricted to tongues licking down the banks of the Belpan and Makaa Rivers . |
| 9 | Instructions to invigilators setting out the details of the procedures to be followed in the conduct of examinations shall be approved by or on behalf of the Senate . |
| 10 | The solution is to make use to layers to separate out the drawing into smaller sections that can be worked on and redrawn in a reasonable time . |
| 11 | I will write to competitors to clear up the situation . ’ |