Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Many-celled bodies make it possible for genes to manipulate the world , using tools built on a scale that is orders of magnitude larger than the scale of single cells . |
2 | However , even though the unexpected is likely to happen , the APT maintains that it is possible for investors to estimate the sensitivity of assets to the likely variety of events that may take place . |
3 | On the proposal that the training contract should make it possible for employers to recover the cost of their investment in training , the difficulties to which the hon. Gentleman referred can be reflected in the contract . |
4 | The realities of modern medical technology have made it possible for doctors to extend the process of dying through the use , for example , of what are colloquially , but perhaps inaptly , called ‘ life-support ’ machines . |
5 | However , the publishing business has recently become more competitive and it is now possible for songwriters to restrict the length of the assignment of copyright to what is known as a ‘ retention period ’ . |
6 | In future , it will be possible for borrowers to transfer the mortgage interest relief on the loan used to buy the original home to the mortgage on the new home . |
7 | Ata'i writes that before Ebussu'ud Efendi became kazasker of Rumeli , an office he held from 944/1537 to 952/1545 , no attention had been paid to the registration of and that , consequently , it was possible for individuals to enter the ranks of office-holders each in a different manner . |
8 | The best news for schools is that a special price is available making it possible for schools to acquire the discs , a laser vision player and an Acorn Archimedes computer for £899 . |
9 | They make it easier for teachers to use the video machine without being tied to its side whenever they want to stop or start it . |
10 | This method should make it easier for libraries to absorb the changes . |
11 | Maps are concrete representations of what is otherwise abstract ; they can become an important part of the reflective process , making it easier for children to understand the meaning of their work . |
12 | The grey area comes in that it 's much easier for manufacturers to put the CE label on the packaging . |
13 | Her dark straight hair glowing with its few reddish strands had been thinned and cut shorter in layers to show the shape of her head . |
14 | My mother , in her mustard-coloured coat and skirt , with a green jumper for her nice colourful contrast , looked minutely offended but was n't sufficiently interested in clothes to argue the matter further . |
15 | So long as philosophers and psychologists of the nineteenth century had to wrestle with an implicit mind — body problem , it was virtually impossible for evolutionists to tackle the evolution of higher mental processes of a distinctively human kind . |
16 | Some sociologists , particularly phenomenologists , take the argument further and claim that it is impossible for sociologists to find the causes of human action . |
17 | Infants who die of dehydration , their tongues blackened ( their mothers say ) and hanging from their mouths , compete for attention with equally brutal images of thirst-driven sertanejos who walk hundreds of kilometres to escape the drought of the sertão or hinterland . |
18 | Steven , of Borehamwood , Herts , beat hundreds of children to win the award , launched by the Patients Aid Association to mark the Queen 's 40th anniversary . |
19 | The first contract was for 15 guineas-worth of nails to fasten the iron chairs to the sleepers . |
20 | Moreover a papal legate had arrived , sent by Urban III with instructions to settle the quarrels of north-west Europe and prepare men for a crusade . |
21 | However , he was largely unsuccessful in attempts to broaden the basis of his government 's political support . |
22 | It is very hard for regulations to cover the interactions of complete systems in complex process plants , for example . |
23 | David Jenkins , spokesman for RoSPA , said : ‘ It 's unfair for stores to blame the users for accidents . |
24 | The council , backing the " polluter must pay " argument , says it is unfair for householders to bear the brunt of the cost ; a tax should be levied on pesticide manufacturers , it argues , and motorists should pay for road drainage through the car licence duty . |
25 | There is no irony in this ; indeed this is firmly in line with many similar statements collected in fieldnotes , which consider it to be totally inappropriate for policemen to mirror the style of the locals if they wear track suits or jeans or sport longer hair and beards . |
26 | It was not unusual for reliefs to reach the front with only half the numbers that set out , nor for this nightmare approach march to last ten hours or longer . |
27 | It was not unusual for patients to relate the pain to meals , or some particular food . |
28 | Numerous bull songs were written and ‘ at the public-houses and at other convivial assemblies in the town for six weeks before and six weeks after the Taurine festival it was customary for men to sing the glories of the sport ’ ( G. H. Burton ) . |
29 | UTOPIA has ideas for the improvement of twentieth-century life while NUMEROSO is suspicious of attempts to set the future into a mould , however good it may seem . |
30 | It is regarded as worthy of Christians to feed the starving ; to desist from war during the time of our dear Lord 's Nativity . ’ |