Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the simple penal code , the essential reason it is in the interest of a firm in this case to carry out the threat of punishment is that it believes that if it does not it itself will be punished . |
| 2 | Both the bid for Channel Five and plans for the new Teleport to be operated at South Gyle , carrying signals for both Television and Telecommunications via satellite , cable and fibre optic lines , are well advanced and require the continued integration of technologies to carry on the task of promoting Edinburgh as a centre of excellence in the new media . |
| 3 | The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) . |
| 4 | We approached the problem in a different way , using a retrograde transneuronal tracer from cortex to retina to relate directly the number of ganglion cells projecting to marked areas of striate cortex . |
| 5 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 6 | Beniaminio and Mario Di Conza have been in the hospital since June , undergoing investigations to find out the extent of organ sharing , before the operation which was completed yesterday . |
| 7 | For reasons which are not yet clear — presumably the pre-marketing clinical studies were considered inadequate — Dista was collaborating in a series of research projects to discover how the bodies of elderly patients cope with Opren . |
| 8 | He recalled with a shudder his futile attempts to pull together the shreds of his old life as if nothing had happened , his tangled emotions , the trouble at school . |
| 9 | The administrative receiver appointed , Touche Ross , was instrumental in persuading the Revenue to allow shareholders to write off the value of the shares against capital gains tax . |
| 10 | The first attempt to drive up the cost of travelling by road brought down the government . |
| 11 | He watched in agony as Ram , with the deliberate movements of long service and old age , tore the cartridge , emptied the powder into the muzzle , and took his ramrod to drive down the rest of the cartridge . |
| 12 | How can the employees trust their agent to report fairly the state of nature ? |
| 13 | Glen resigned from Annan in November 1816 ; his discouragement was partly caused by the friction created in trying to raise sufficient funds to carry on the work of the congregation . |
| 14 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 15 | It was part of the failure of the comprehensive schools to shake off the image of ‘ grammar schools for all ’ . |
| 16 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 17 | But when Uccello died in his eighties , ‘ He left a daughter who could design , and a wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective , and that when she called him to come to rest , he replied , ‘ Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is ! ’ |
| 18 | In social research we should be trying to carry out objective research to find out the truth of the matter . |
| 19 | But no attempt to dismantle radically the fabric of state regulation or public service provision has yet been pushed through in any liberal democracy , so that the public policy configuration now remains quite distinct from that prevailing before 1945 . |
| 20 | It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom . |
| 21 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 22 | It is very difficult in the circumstances of either Mozambique or Nicaragua to evaluate conclusively the effectiveness of policies which promote education as a means of transforming society , although in the case of Nicaragua , despite the problems , government-sponsored initiatives clearly scored successes , both in educational terms and in terms of social change . |
| 23 | Any attempt to open up the convolutions of farm policy to public scrutiny is bound to be seen as a threat to those with an interest in the status quo . |
| 24 | Other reports in March stressed the need for a crash immunization programme to ward off the threat of epidemics . |
| 25 | In 1848 , Engels had viewed Europe as a general , deploying as his armies subject peoples to lock up the gendarme of Europe , Tsarist Russia . |
| 26 | He claims that none of the release sites have been sufficiently far from the home loft to rule out the use of such cues , except in a few cases , such as trans-Atlantic displacement , and in these the evidence of homing is very weak . |
| 27 | More recently his attempt to damp down the fires of the Rushdie controversy , A Satanic Affair : Salman Rushdie and The Rage of Islam , infuriated both Muslim militants and some of Rushdie 's friends , which makes him think he got the balance about right . |
| 28 | The Israeli Defence Forces ( IDF ) , moving beyond their self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon , entered UN-patrolled areas with tanks and troops on Feb. 15 in a widening attempt to wipe out the forces of militant Shia guerrilla organizations . |
| 29 | A shift from a presidential system to that of a Prime Minister and Cabinet would make it easier for parties to divide up the rewards of victory between their various factions ( as illustrated by the Japanese model ) . |
| 30 | Apathy is usually ascribed only to one side — the parents — and that is sometimes thought to give a sufficient reason for teachers and schools to give up the struggle of recruiting them as allies . |