Example sentences of "to [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 2 | THE ADJUSTER The ‘ loss adjuster ’ of the title is a melancholic insurance clerk who attempts to rebuilt the lives of his disaster-stricken clients from the record of old snapshots , his feelings gradually eroded by constant exposure to these images . |
| 3 | THE BOARD of Irish Rail has decided to rebuilt the Carriage Shop at Inchicore Works , Dublin , which was completely destroyed by fire last September . |
| 4 | In September 1946 , the Secretary of State , James Byrnes , made a speech expressing America 's determination to rebuilt the economy of the American zone in Germany whether the Russians agreed or not . |
| 5 | At a quarter to eleven the taxi came for me . |
| 6 | Repeat steps one to eight the following day . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State is therefore increasing from four to eight the number of full-time inquiry reporters in the Scottish Office Unit , the setting up of which has in itself reduced the time involved in arranging inquiries and submitting reports . |
| 8 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |
| 9 | Ochirbat visited China in May 1990 [ see p. 37454 ] , and co-operation agreements in the educational and legal fields were signed on Nov. 26 and on July 4 , 1991 ; an agreement was signed on June 24 to increase to eight the border crossings between China and Mongolia from the hitherto sole crossing at Erenhot in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia . |
| 10 | Tenants tried to injunct the president of the RICS from appointing an independent surveyor to act as an expert in a rent review . |
| 11 | It tried to injunct the newspaper , on the ground that the papers contained military and diplomatic secrets , the disclosure of which would substantially damage the national interest . |
| 12 | Up to 1980 the supplementary benefit regulations permitted claimants in residential homes who could not be catered for by the local authority an amount sufficient to meet reasonable board and lodging charges in the area . |
| 13 | Up to 1980 the sick leave for industrial accidents declined considerably at British Telecom ( BT ) , but from 1981 as a run-up to privatisation , BT introduced more competition into its working methods . |
| 14 | From 1950 to 1980 the tendency was for chronological studies to become increasingly sophisticated and more interdisciplinary so that this is a stricture on visualizing earlier work rather than the most recent . |
| 15 | Its efforts to ingest the last scattered parings of modern existence seemed half-hearted , as its voice rose to a crescendo as if to bewail its incapability and incompetence . |
| 16 | Boats can take you to the Borromean Islands and to tall the other resorts around the lake and regular bus services along the lake road . |
| 17 | In the end I got another doctor to sedate the poor man . |
| 18 | Staff from the animal charity worked alongside Darlington firefighters and a vet to sedate the terrified animal , then winch it above ground . |
| 19 | Preparing for the off in the London Marathon last April , WCUK Nottingham project manager , John Holder , got his running shoes on to complete the 26 mile 394 yard distance for the first time . |
| 20 | Other environmental pressures could shorten this to nearer the fifty years required by law in the United States . |
| 21 | From 1984 to 1986 the people of the territories watched uneasily as the mainstream PLO tried to recover its position by uniting with Jordan in an initiative intended to rescue the territories from occupation . |
| 22 | From 1981 to 1986 the total population of Kosovo rose by about 220,000 , and of this increase about 200,000 may have been Albanians . |
| 23 | From 1980 to 1986 the annual rate of growth averaged c . |
| 24 | Of a planned 2,266 a total of 1,581 Cuban troops had been withdrawn during January , bringing to 31,138 the number withdrawn since January 1989 . |
| 25 | At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels . |
| 26 | Usually , if the speed is low , you only have a few seconds either to lower the nose or to reduce the amount of airbrake to avoid a bad landing . |
| 27 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 28 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 29 | As for the export to the US of Magnox plutonium prior to 1971 the government has refused to say how much was exchanged . |
| 30 | Prior to 1971 the mixing was carried out under manual control by time-served master bakers controlling a team of operators . |