Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was going to have to spend a second night at the motel , if only to continue their cover of an ‘ affair ’ . |
| 2 | We will encourage farmers , retailers and manufacturers to work together to increase our share of the European food market . |
| 3 | Her discovery did , however , although belated , do much to help her understanding of the conversation : references hitherto obscure became suddenly clear . |
| 4 | It is n't serious enough to spoil your enjoyment of the car but is hard to understand from a company that spent millions developing the Lexus , the car that banished noise , vibration and harshness . |
| 5 | Normal co-ordinate analysis aims to provide a quantitative analysis of such mixing of local or group modes , and so to improve our understanding of the vibrational motions of a molecule . |
| 6 | They joined it , left it , joined it again , but only to oppose its acceptance of the war . |
| 7 | The projects ' objectives are to provide an account of the social processes by which labour demands are generated , jobs formulated , personnel specifications developed and employees recruited and selected , and thus to increase our understanding of the ways in which people and jobs are matched in the labour market . |
| 8 | However , after the Cuban revolution Soviet analysts began to include Latin America in their discussions of the underdeveloped world , and a series of initiatives were taken by Moscow both to overcome its ignorance of the area and to increase its presence there . |
| 9 | Isa recorded the proceedings — no doubt simply to refresh his memory of the sense of the meeting — but men found the recorder inhibiting , said they feared secret police , reprisals , a black mark . |
| 10 | Vic shakes his head irritably to rid his mind of the image . |
| 11 | Mr Savimbi is meeting President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire in Paris on Monday , and yesterday the Angolan Foreign Minister , Pedro de Castro van Dunem , hurried there to put his side of the argument to the Zairean mediator . |
| 12 | When the future Cardinal Richelieu entered government service for the first time in 1616 he found available so little essential documentation on foreign policy that he had to ask French representatives abroad to send him copies of the instructions they had been given : without this he could not know even what the policies of his immediate predecessor had been . |
| 13 | Saunders , now at Villa , has yet to put his side of the case . |