Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Authority spent a good deal of time trying to persuade such Boards to avoid deficits by raising tariffs to remunerative levels , but commercial disciplines were inevitably weakened by such dual responsibility and ad hoc decisions . |
| 2 | Spending a great deal of time trying to achieve these goals will be unproductive and frustrating . |
| 3 | I spend a great deal of time attempting to persuade such girls that rock climbing is a valid female choice for recreation and person development . |
| 4 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 5 | But the rate of loss of forest threatens to outstrip any of this basic work , and practical plans are hampered by the fact that until recently the birds have simply not been very well studied : not much is known about them . |
| 6 | After extensive market research , the BTIS is to embark on a programme of promotion aiming to convert more non-buyers away from the red meat and chicken camps to turkey . |
| 7 | In their final communiqué the heads of state threatened to blockade that part of Liberia controlled by Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia if Taylor did not implement within one month the Yamoussoukro IV peace agreement signed in October 1991 [ see p. 38518 ] . |
| 8 | We measured circulating gastrin to determine the concentrations of gastrin required to produce half maximal acid secretion . |
| 9 | The musical result is usually somewhat enigmatic and intangible , and inevitably one piece of music tends to resemble another . |
| 10 | The Department of Health wants to place more of them in community care , while the Home Office wants to place more of them in secure accommodation . |
| 11 | It takes a bit of time to learn to use these more specialized sorts of graph paper but it is worth the effort . |
| 12 | All later forms of religion have to handle this problem , and do so even though they use different means . |
| 13 | The project began approximately two years ago when the Belgian Ministry of Finance seemed to know little about Electronic Data Interchange , Gilmont says . |
| 14 | The issue of naturalization seemed to perplex some Libyans ; this was clear in their discussions at the Kufra Assembly and at the National Assembly which followed it . |
| 15 | The extent to which the history of science has been shaped by modern concerns is evident from the fact that only in recent years has the origin of ecology begun to attract much attention . |
| 16 | Graph search terminology allows us to give a breakdown of the minimum requirements of the sort of mechanism required to search this space , regardless of ( i ) how information about valid paths is retrieved , ( ii ) how the search space is constructed and stored , and ( iii ) the specific strategies used for searching that space . |
| 17 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 18 | Unfortunately in some ways , computers are capable of analysing and cross-tabulating vast amounts of data very quickly and this apparent ease of analysis seems to lead some people to extend their data collection . |
| 19 | A controlled trial comparing 12 to 24 weeks of treatment failed to show any beneficial effect of the prolonged therapy . |
| 20 | The situation in the extra-mural areas is much less clear-cut , but the recovery of pottery appears to indicate some level of continued activity . |
| 21 | The last edition of Network promised to reveal some of the plans for Clarence . |
| 22 | Wouters ' more recent writings on the process of informalisation begin to plug another gap in his early conceptualisation by focusing on the changing balance of power between the sexes . |
| 23 | The task of condensing five thousand years of glass-making appears to have little deterred the contributors of this latest offering from the British Museum . |
| 24 | He will be addressing the British Association Science Festival at Keele University , Staffordshire , in the wake of Labour criticism of Government plans to privatise some of the country 's top research laboratories . |
| 25 | Negative perceptions of wilderness helped to reinforce this process of agricultural expansion by , in effect , making a virtue out of necessity — by turning cultivation and agriculture into a form of semi-religious crusade ( Thomas , 1983 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | In 1989 the Court of Appeal declined to apply any of these adjectives to the Home Secretary 's decision to prohibit radio and television broadcasts which included statements by representatives ( even democratically elected representatives ) of Sinn Fein . |
| 27 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |
| 28 | The use of quantification in studies of crime tends to obscure this diversity . |
| 29 | King ( 1990 ) similarly suggests that topicalization , as evident in the use of expressions such as os pros , oson afora , and oso ya ( all of which mean something like ‘ as for ’ or ‘ with regards to ’ ) , is more common in Greek than in English and that Greek learners of English tend to overuse this structure . |
| 30 | We have already suggested that theories of motivation seem to indicate that money is only one of many factors that have a bearing upon motivation and morale . |