Example sentences of "to [noun sg] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , and stem the bleeding if you can see where it 's coming from attempt to stem the bleeding , bung the hole up , okay ? |
| 2 | Eventually the blades will take on sufficient pitch to windmill the engine and provoke a normal start but there can be anxious moments , wondering if the elastic is going to wind up while the starter motor slaves away . |
| 3 | Some argue that the dominant effect of the new technology will be to de-skill the workforce , destroying craft occupations and fragmenting jobs into meaningless elements which can be performed by unskilled operators controlled by large-scale bureaucracies run in the interests of international capital . |
| 4 | Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available . |
| 5 | To a large extent the Templar lands served to tide the crown over until the alien priories , briefly confiscated in 1324–6 , were seized again from 1337 until 1361 . |
| 6 | The first loan was often sought to escape a pauper funeral , to keep the children off the school meals list , to pay for boots , or to tide the family over the illness of the breadwinner . |
| 7 | Given these qualifications , broad categories of value are locative — names derived from place-names or topographical features ; of relationship — names of fathers or mothers , with additional syllables , pet names , font names and diminutives ; occupational and social status — indications of trade , calling or office , carried down the centuries , often in mutilated or garbled form ; nicknames — tags and sobriquets which were sufficiently distinctive , felicitous and pronounceable as to stand the test of time . |
| 8 | But Pat , of Stockport , was delighted to taco the money and run . |
| 9 | It is generally felt that in the past local authorities have dragged their feet in taking on their responsibilities to care for mentally disordered people , and the Minister of Health , Roger Freeman , outlined further plans for this group to Parliament the day after Secretary of State Kenneth Clarke 's speech on community care ; these were , clearly , some last-minute additions to the government 's package of proposals . |
| 10 | Presenting to parliament the budget for the fiscal year starting on Jan. 1 , 1991 , the Prime Minister stressed on Jan. 15 that the poor economic growth during 1990 was a result of damage caused by hurricane " Hugo " in September 1989 [ see p. 36891 ] . |
| 11 | Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election . |
| 12 | A second strand in research of the 1960s was a consequence of the increasing focus upon processes which gave indications of the magnitude of human activity and also led to the inauguration of research investigations specifically designed to measure the magnitude of man by comparing man-modified and unmodified areas or by measuring one area before , during and after the effects of man . |
| 13 | ( a ) The sub-contractor is encouraged to measure the work himself and submit a detailed account to the surveyor together with any daywork sheets signed by the general foreman . |
| 14 | Two scales of ‘ resistance ’ and ‘ interference ’ , designed to measure the intensity of obsessional distress and the intrusion of symptoms on other activities , produced a similar result . |
| 15 | Possible models are a power of the intensity or its exponential , where the radiometer is used to measure the intensity . |
| 16 | COHSE researcher Steven Weeks say his main concern is that the schemes being marketed ‘ are not designed to measure the type of jobs nurses do ’ . |
| 17 | Between 1963 and 1974 an attempt was made to measure the abundance and distribution of the common and widespread birds breeding in Sussex woodlands by a series of sample censuses . |
| 18 | This was to lead to an increase in real wages and to a decline in rents for land , and in so far as these can be used to measure the standard of living of the people , they suggest that the condition of the peasantry improved markedly in the fifteenth century . |
| 19 | The great Merseyside Survey of the 1930s carried out from Liverpool University was mainly concerned with unemployment and poverty and , like many local social surveys carried out up and down the United Kingdom , sought to measure the incidence of certain social problems with a view to providing sound empirical data upon which local and central social policy could be based . |
| 20 | The coefficient of determination ( R ( adjusted ) ) was used to measure the proportion of variation explained by individual factors . |
| 21 | Yet it still finds that the official statistics-gathering system is designed to measure the state economy , but not the rapidly growing private one . |
| 22 | They are connected to a number of probes which are used to measure the water 's acidity levels , temperature , murkiness and so on . |
| 23 | Changes in the log of variables can be used to measure the percentage change of that variable . |
| 24 | Of the various bridges considered so far , only the Hay bridge mentioned in section 7.4 features balance conditions that exhibit an explicit dependence on frequency so that it can be used to measure the frequency of the source in terms of appropriate components . |
| 25 | Goodlad has been careful to see that the reactions of all participants — pupils , students and teachers — are recorded to measure the success of the scheme . |
| 26 | The MORI survey was conducted to measure the success of the Prospectus and to provide feedback for the second edition , which has now been published . |
| 27 | He asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health whether he was prepared to measure the success by the simple test of whether the trusts did more or less work for the national health service . |
| 28 | Either that , or the tape being used to measure the distance shrinks — according to the beetles . |
| 29 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
| 30 | The daily spin of the Earth , the roughly monthly orbit of the moon , and the yearly passage of the Earth around the sun , were all used to measure the flow of time . |