Example sentences of "[vb infin] [coord] [adv] [vb base] the " in BNC.

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1 Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit .
2 Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States .
3 There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve .
4 In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path .
5 So what does it take to first qualify and then make the grade as a PGA European Tour player ?
6 There are factors outside the scope of this book which a tribunal may consider and thereby reduce the amount the employee is awarded .
7 Well alright he 's gon na turn left , er just pause let him clear and then follow the way t follow the way through .
8 Everyone is able to choose how to behave in a given set of circumstances , although many people operate on the assumption that they can not choose and never give the alternatives a moment 's thought .
9 At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection .
10 When choosing either foam or felt remember that the more resilient the underlay the more it will improve and therefore prolong the life of your carpet .
11 A BREAKTHROUGH in research could lead to a drug that would prevent and even reverse the symptoms of Parkinson 's disease , say American scientists .
12 While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem .
13 This is because in England there is no statute or code setting out the law governing the continuing care of the terminally ill ; nor are there more than a handful of cases that have been decided by the courts.l None the less , legal principles undoubtedly do exist and obviously condition the choices made by doctors .
14 But unfortunately , whilst the upmarket brands spend a great deal of money on new research to produce improved products , before long the cheaper brands will often follow and eventually incorporate the latest technology in their toiletries too .
15 who speaks to you , er it 's easy enough to just er have the microphone handy that they do n't see and just switch the tape on and I 'll record what they 're saying , come away , see , do it secretly like that , they do n't have to know really that they 're on tape and it does n't really matter , I mean the people who will listen to these tapes are er anonymous you know
16 Evalina was financially desperate , could not work and also tend the child .
17 They ease the pain , creating a private world of peace into which the prisoner can withdraw and temporarily forget the awfulness .
18 Test factors can sometimes suppress and sometimes enhance the size of the original effect , as we shall see .
19 While small influences in the short term may add up to large influences in the longer term we must conclude that , within an election campaign , television could influence but not dictate the public agenda .
20 This will lower but not eliminate the risk of infection .
21 Do n't over-tighten the screws or you will distort or even damage the sheeting
22 If he knew the probabilities of the three states of the market , he could compute and then maximise the expected profit .
23 It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim .
24 The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind .
25 The machinist on the shop floor could detect but not correct the error .
26 So you 'll try and just get the back a little , lean perhaps a little bit over towards there , like that , erm ,
27 Despite the fact that I feel strongly about this issue , I remain open-minded and by seeing as much as is attainable my ideas will develop and so determine the kind of practitioner I hope to be .
28 A mild recession will correct but not eliminate the deficit , which is bound to remain high , and may even rise again as another pre-election consumer spree gathers pace .
29 The " ontological " version , as we saw , involves an assumption that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can be reproduced in terms of propositions that do not explicitly assert but rather presuppose the existence of certain ontological objects .
30 The same constitutional medicine can be used for both palliative and curative purposes simultaneously , because deep acting remedies can be repeated frequently , without risk of aggravation , if correctly selected they may not only palliate but also cure the patient , even in apparently hopeless cases , because of the gentleness of the fifty millesimal scale .
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