Example sentences of "to [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The framework will therefore be better suited to simulating the consequences of different kinds of economic behaviour rather than determining what form economic behaviour has or is likely to take . |
| 2 | If you are close to mastering the slow pirouette , you may find this to be easier since the model is always pointing into wind . |
| 3 | It sanctioned the sexualization of women by men , making them ‘ a thing , an instrument devoted to appeasing the sexual passion of the man ’ . |
| 4 | The falsificationist is committed to preferring the first . |
| 5 | In contrast to filtering the single-copy hybridisation data , false negatives have a higher effect on the correct determination of patterns . |
| 6 | Although the racking system is normally open type construction it is possible to clad the perimeter of the racking and its top to form a totally enclosed box within a conventional building . |
| 7 | For the list of county court districts and the courts having bankruptcy jurisdiction over them , see Appendix A. Debtors ' petitions can be presented in whichever county court is specified by Schedule 2 to the rules as being , in relation to the debtors ' own county court , the nearest full time county court if it is more expedient with a view to expediting the petition ( r 6.40(3) ) . |
| 8 | Have Post-war changes in educational policy and provision brought Britain closer to realising the vision of the meritocratic society ? |
| 9 | Through these companies , GDA is committed to realising the economic potential of the priority regeneration areas of Castlemilk , Drumchapel , the East-End , Glasgow North ( Springburn ) , Gorbals , Easterhouse and Govan . |
| 10 | The Commission views the creation of a social consensus as essential to realising the benefits of an integrated European economy . |
| 11 | If this works correctly , all is well and attention may be given to building the receiver . |
| 12 | Compensating this apparent service cut for mentally ill patients was the fact that most of the capital to be set aside for the service developments would be devoted to building the replacement facilities in the community for the two psychiatric hospitals to close . |
| 13 | In addition to building the RRS and the Rothera airstrip , BAS replaced its research station Halley , located on a fast moving ice-shelf , and bought a De Vailland Dash 7 aircraft , which was converted for Antarctic operation . |
| 14 | Ice was not the only obstacle to building the RRS . |
| 15 | The catalogue is designed to be ‘ a convenient one-stop service for cutting-edge , user-friendly resources critical to building the capacities of the poor and the institutions which serve them , ’ say its publishers . |
| 16 | I see my job here at ‘ The Tip ’ as akin to building the Taj Mahal from scratch . |
| 17 | Increasing the range and diversity of role models children meet in mathematical textbooks and building on the knowledge they have already acquired are two of the ways we can contribute to building the self-esteem shown in many Government reports to be crucial for success . |
| 18 | The fact that the research in 18 of the 23 subjects offered for assessment has been rated as reaching a level of national significance or better provides a very satisfactory base on which to building the University 's future as a research university . |
| 19 | Members heard there were now no obstacles to building the relief road and that everyone consulted about it was ‘ wholeheartedly in favour . ’ |
| 20 | Matthias ' father , János Hunyadi was voivode of Transylvania and devoted his considerable talents to halting the Turkish advance into Europe . |
| 21 | ** In the US , legislation proposed by 25 members of the House of Representatives called on President Bill Clinton to initiate " high-level discussions " with the British government with a view to halting the THORP project . |
| 22 | ‘ It reaches more people than other media too , ’ she suggested , never averse to singing the praises of radio . |
| 23 | When at last they are released , they are positively maniacal , and gallop and buck around the paddock twice as much as usual before settling down to eating the grass . |
| 24 | Then they became bored , and went back to eating the grass . |
| 25 | Perhaps he is used to eating the grass sometimes while we brush him . |
| 26 | Up to now , the republics and provinces ( or at least the more prosperous ones ) have shown a strong resistance to allowing the federal government to enter the field of income tax . |
| 27 | However , if the buildings can not be used for such purposes ‘ other uses are preferable to allowing the buildings to remain empty or grossly under-occupied ’ . |
| 28 | The RSFSR , Ukraine and Kazakhstan had objected to allowing the federal government to impose taxes , demanding that the union budget should be financed from taxes collected by individual republics . |
| 29 | The methods and their paraphernalia are all ‘ stageprops ’ , aids to contacting the same force and channelling the mind in that direction . |
| 30 | John Smith was now committed to clobbering the poor by reversing their tax cut as soon as Labour got in . |