Example sentences of "to [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hospital 's emergency and maternity units are still threatened with closure after a report failed to ruled out the possibility . |
| 2 | He had provided merely skimpy further details of the first two pilots , dedicating his greatest effort to building up a detailed profile of Mikhail Vologsky . |
| 3 | The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe . |
| 4 | The Church has not always recognised their rights to spiritual growth nor the contribution that they can make to building up the body of Christ . |
| 5 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 6 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 7 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 8 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 9 | The university appointed a new appeal committee with a view to speeding up the hearing . |
| 10 | My grandfather had died early , so she was used to bringing up a family on her own . |
| 11 | Apart from his emotional objection to bringing up a child which was not their own , there was another consideration , one which he hoped to keep from his wife . |
| 12 | Bilijana , 26 , was looking forward to bringing up a family in their comfortable Sarajevo home . |
| 13 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy — with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright — and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
| 14 | Mountbatten offered the British government two courses ; either there should be negotiations between Dutch and Indonesians with a view to bringing in a general ceasefire ( plan X ) or else punitive action against ‘ Known or suspected terrorists ’ ( plan Y ) . |
| 15 | In the meantime , the commission will consider the merits of the case with a view to bringing about a private , ‘ friendly ’ settlement with the Government . |
| 16 | Hence if , in pursuance of a trade dispute between A and C , A induces the employees of B , with whom C has a contract , to break their contracts of employment with a view to bringing about a breach of the contract between B and C the action is presumptively unlawful . |
| 17 | Most of his energies were directed to bringing about the union of the Scottish and English parliaments and he died in 1707 on the eve of his aim being realised . |
| 18 | They never faced the situation realistically ; inflation got out of hand and contributed even more than the military inertia to bringing about the Nationalist downfall . |
| 19 | Indeed grazing rights could be an issue in themselves , and disputes over these probably made a major contribution to bringing about the Norfolk rebellion of 1549 ( 73 , pp.71 , 142–3 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ This government 's policies are not conducive to bringing about the end of the recession , ’ he said bluntly . |
| 21 | Perhaps other bands could be persuaded to up their releasing to one single a month ; this would slow Gedge down , until , presumably , he resorted to bringing out a single every week and , indeed , every day . |
| 22 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 23 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 24 | Flaubert went to the house of Kuchuk Hanem , a famous Cairene courtesan reduced to eking out a living in this provincial backwater . |
| 25 | On the other , he could have devoted his energies to shoring up the regime 's prestige , authority and ability to maintain order . |
| 26 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 27 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 28 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |
| 29 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
| 30 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |