Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The papers included here also tackle the main features required to implement effectively the new approach which we have outlined above . |
| 2 | We can not be far from the day of the conversation robot that will relieve us of obligation to greet politely the occasional recognisable human that strays across our path . |
| 3 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 4 | The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade : ignorance . |
| 5 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 6 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 7 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 9 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 11 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 12 | There is only one Arsenal today , and I can not conceive another simply because no other club have players fitted to carry on the same ideas . ’ |
| 13 | I want to comment briefly on the Government 's proposals and to support wholeheartedly the new clauses and amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) . |
| 14 | This support is rarely total but undoubtedly some newspapers , e.g. the Daily Mail , Sun , are more ready than others to support wholeheartedly the political party of their choice . |
| 15 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 16 | Footballers and boxers , too , often have their entry into the sports world aided by zealous school teachers , though , overwhelmingly , they choose to see only the formative years up to , say , the age of 13 as affected by teachers . |
| 17 | BETWEEN 1945 , WHEN the war ended , and 1956 when the first Reichmann son , Edward , appeared in Canada , Samuel engaged in a programme of frenzied European activity , the purpose of which was to gather together the early Reichmann millions . |
| 18 | You will then need to gather together the necessary things to make an application . |
| 19 | Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) . |
| 20 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |
| 21 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 22 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 23 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 24 | The obvious way of handling things is to connect together the two 0 volt terminals in order to give the central 0 volt output . |
| 25 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 26 | To catch the offending shrimp , it is often necessary to strip down the entire tank , rock by rock , until it is found . |
| 27 | Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage . |
| 28 | In the introduction to the thirteen papers presented at the symposium held at Abo Akademi University in 1988 , Roger Sell tries to weave together the different strands by highlighting their central common core , namely that literature is a communicative discourse strictly related to ideology and power . |
| 29 | So what happens if a purchaser claims that he wishes to acquire only the basic wordprocessing part of the sophisticated package , perhaps because he or she wishes the output to be compatible with a machine on which all the bells and whistles have been legitimately installed ? |
| 30 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |