Example sentences of "course [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |
| 2 | in Gloucester navigator Ade Jeffries has been on a crash course to lose the fat and get fit … |
| 3 | When the current petition for amendment of the trust indenture was made public , Glanton also circulated a letter , dated 24 January 1992 , from National Gallery director J. Carter Brown , detailing the gallery 's willingness to assist the tour , and endorsing the Barnes trustees ' ‘ active course to assure the institution 's future ’ . |
| 4 | 280 that it may be an oppressive course to prosecute the driver of an unlicensed vehicle in a master-servant relationship , where the driver is the employee and not responsible for licensing the vehicle . |
| 5 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 6 | The small group of riders spied them and altered their course to meet the patrol . |
| 7 | A special grant might be made ( ? £15,000 ) to permit the appointment of a lecturer for 6–12 months beforehand , with time to visit Third World partners , convene seminars , plan the course to meet the needs that emerge , recruit appropriate students , and indeed have time to begin writing . |
| 8 | Output from nuclear power plant , along with mild weather and the effects of recession on energy demand , contributed towards a 3 per cent fall in levels last year , putting the UK on course to meet the commitment . |
| 9 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 10 | Members will also study distance learning materials before starting the course to consolidate the College study and to prepare them for subsequent modules . |
| 11 | And , to the best of our knowledge , that is still valid though er of course to answer the second part of your question , are they fully locked in . |
| 12 | A slalom course to highlight the team 's maneoverability . |
| 13 | the most expedient course to consult the architect who had already been employed to prepare plans for the particular office now to be built , and who from his official position in connexion with the Board of Works might be resorted to with the least invidiousness to the professional public . |
| 14 | As the event ended , they were on course to reach the £2,000 target needed to sponsor two guide dogs . |
| 15 | Even with the present set-up , their seemed reasonable recruitment figures overall but few stayed the course to reach the upper levels of racing achievement creating what was described as ‘ a meatless sandwich . ’ |
| 16 | Peter Cazalet 's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room . |
| 17 | As the youngest Prime Minister this century , he is on course to lead the Tories to an historic fourth term in power — something not achieved since the end of the Napoleonic wars . |
| 18 | ‘ I went on a course to win the award , and obviously I 'm pleased to have it . |
| 19 | The professor will be a member ex officio of the committee , and will be expected from time to time to hold offices such as that of Chairman of the Committee or Director of Graduate Studies , and in due course to assume the duties of professor in charge of the Institute , which are customarily rotated by arrangement . |
| 20 | Seats and other fittings will be installed in due course to give the already huge exhibit even more scale — how small mankind has become alongside its creations ! |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the Windsor Park team are so far undefeated in domestic competition , and are on course to retain the Ulster Cup title . |
| 22 | LION HOTEL are firmly on course to retain the Crosby Sunday League championship after going top with a 10-1 romp at Carisbrooke Hotel . |
| 23 | Vocabulary and structures are constantly revised throughout the course to reinforce the language learning process and to ensure that children who join the class late do not find themselves struggling . |
| 24 | The point of all this was of course to reinforce the belief that the after-life was a paradise , even if only achievable with certainty through death in battle , and thus to improve the combativeness of the assassins . |
| 25 | To do so meant of course to abandon the simplicities of pastoral living . |
| 26 | Now to start sailing closer towards the wind , we need to pull in the mainsheet , pop the daggerboard down and then turn the boat gently towards the wind , we reach the point where even with the sail sheeted in tightly , the front edge , the luff of the sail is still flapping , that 's as close to the wind as we can get and so we maintain a course to keep the sail full . |
| 27 | There is a new Nelson First Certificate Course to accompany the three other course titles Nelson already has for the same exam . |
| 28 | This is a heathland course to gladden the heart . |
| 29 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 30 | If he will read all our policy , he will find clearly stated our determination to ensure that rural areas are protected against the petrol price rises that the Conservatives , Labour , and my own party recognise are otherwise inevitable in due course to protect the environment . |