Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is n't a great deal of historical precedent to support the view that patriarchy can be transformed by sweet reason and persuasion . |
| 2 | He has done a great deal of important work to expose the problem and to help us find a solution to it . |
| 3 | It can be argued that community care still remains essentially sexist in that it assumes a large labour force of low-paid women to staff the formal sector . |
| 4 | The collapse of post-war attempts to reconstruct the world economy in 1929–31 opened the way for a new wave of economic nationalism in Britain . |
| 5 | Their manpower planning is sophisticated enough to ensure that there will be an adequate number of candidates of sufficient calibre to reach the highest levels in those organisations at any future time . |
| 6 | The October 1973 war was the result of Egyptian-Soviet efforts to change the balance in the Middle East , but it was the United States which became the prime beneficiary . |
| 7 | Public attention was galvanized by a publicity gambit from the American distributors of The Phantom of the Opera , who persuaded a brigade of British soldiers to escort the print from Southampton to London . |
| 8 | The conference , organised by the World Bank and European Investment Bank and successor to one held in Barcelona in 1989 , aimed to draw up a programme of technical assistance to protect the Mediterranean from pollution . |
| 9 | However , Civic Union withdrew support for the government when acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar , presenting " a programme of urgent measures to lead the Russian economy out of crisis " to a joint sitting of the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 26 , ruled out compromise on four key points demanded by Civic Union : ( i ) return to the state distribution system ; ( ii ) large increases in the money supply ; ( iii ) freezing wages and prices ; and ( iv ) fixing an exchange rate below that of the market . |
| 10 | The appalling health of the population , revealed by Boer War recruitment , did much to persuade the Establishment of the need for an extensive programme of social reform to improve the condition of the working class . |
| 11 | Taking minor ‘ tank ’ irrigation in Tamil Nadu as a case , the principle aims of the research are twofold : firstly , through historical research to understand the social and cultural systems which have sustained collective water management in the past and identify the socio-economic and demographic factors associated with their decline ; and secondly , through the comparative study of on-going programmes to suggest the necessary conditions for successful establishment of systems of community resource management in the present day social context . |
| 12 | Hedges are an example of the readiness of ordinary people to bend the language to suit their purposes . |
| 13 | In his book Gotcha ! — The Media , The Government And The Falklands Crisis , Robert Harris noted the dismay of Ministry of Defence officials at the readiness of British tv to report the enemy 's view of the war , even using Argentine footage . |
| 14 | She was a founder member , the only woman from another Swiss woman artist , Mary Moser , of the Royal Academy which was established in 1768 in order to advance the professional careers and inspire the ambition of British artists to emulate the Italian artists of the Renaissance in the recreation of the Grand Style . |
| 15 | processing of video images of underground platforms to estimate the concentration of people present |
| 16 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 17 | On the more nebulous issue of value for money of George Street Research said there was clear evidence , of which the opening quotation forms only a part , that clients do not know what goes into a piece of legal work to justify the fee , other than the fact that the job is done . |
| 18 | First , while the water was boiling , I had to find some piece of stout wood to hold the boy 's dropped foot in the proper position — ‘ the position of function ’ as Reid had called it . |
| 19 | He said Labour 's proposed end to support for the closed shop , rather than evidence of a changed attitude to Europe , was a piece of clever opportunism to get the party where it wanted to be . |
| 20 | You can also use a piece of round rod to mark the smooth concrete into a pattern that looks like crazy paving . |
| 21 | The Board considers that until resources and the allocation of priorities permit these reviews of existing standards to be undertaken , this amendment will remove an inconsistency between two standards that could inhibit proper accounting for long term post-retirement obligations and allow preparers of financial statements to adopt the most appropriate accounting treatment in their particular circumstances of the often complex matters dealt with by these standards . |
| 22 | At the same time the imperative of economic growth to minimize the contradictions of capital , creates an apparent dependence on the logic of scientific and technological progress . |
| 23 | ‘ A rule compelling the critic of official conduct to guarantee the truth of all his factual assertions — and to do so on pain of libel judgments virtually unlimited in amount — leads to a comparable ‘ self-censorship . ’ |
| 24 | BCCs are often set up as branches of Dutch companies to obtain the benefit of the Dutch tax treaty network , the income being effectively exempt from Dutch tax under domestic rules . |
| 25 | Use the trimmings of red icing to cover the flat underside of the remaining small cake , the ‘ spaceship ’ . |
| 26 | But if access to the ordinary commercial activity of a shopping precinct were to be blocked for a considerable period at a particularly busy time of day , so that people were prevented from conducting their ordinary business and social affairs , there is a disruption of sufficient significance to warrant the imposition of conditions . |
| 27 | It is in the shared interest of of the parties I 'm describing that this county should be able to attract and accommodate er inward investment of strategic significance to help the people of this county find the due employment that they need . |
| 28 | The liberals of Cadiz were not primarily concerned with a socially desirable redistribution of landed property but rather with the establishment of clear and absolute property rights — the Roman Law notion of jus utendi et abutendi as against the medieval confusions of multiple claims to enjoy the use of the same piece of property . |
| 29 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 30 | But , above all , there were two new bodies to tackle the fundamental problem of Britain 's long-term economic decline , a Ministry of Technology to harness research and development to industry , and a Department of Economic Affairs to break the Treasury monopoly of advice . |