Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 2 | Manager Dave Bassett has brought Gayle straight back in alongside Paul Beesley and allowed Alan McLeary to return to Millwall without taking up the option of buying him . |
| 3 | providing support to management in carrying out the communication programme |
| 4 | However , he was quite correct in assuming she would not contact the person who had phoned her until she was sure he was well out of the way , so she set to work in sorting out the various tasks to be done . |
| 5 | We identify words not by virtue of any intrinsic qualities in them , but by virtue of their difference from one another , and it is therefore their differences which allow words to give meaning to things by dividing up the continuum of experience . |
| 6 | Each one of those millions of evolutionary changes by means of which the single cell multiplied and diversified into the vast complexity of all living things , was either ‘ good ’ , and contributing towards the development of the human being of today , or ‘ not good ’ and was therefore continuing the development of what was , or would become , a non-human species , or lost to evolution by bringing about the extinction of a species . |
| 7 | Congratulations to Barkers for turning over the whole of the basement into one big showcase for some brilliant furnishing fashion — much of it British . |