Example sentences of "[noun sg] to engage [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of the accountability angle of the LEA scheme , to have avoided subjecting school policies and personnel to critical scrutiny whilst at the same time taking advantage of the appraisal to engage in special pleading over staffing and resources , seems to have been a sensible and shrewd strategy . |
| 2 | Ronald Reagan , with his crude , moralising attacks on Russia 's ‘ evil Empire ’ , his readiness to engage in military action ( such as the invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983 ) , and his massive increase in military spending ( which helped drive America deeply into debt ) seemed disturbing to many Europeans . |
| 3 | Nor is it an attempt to engage in extended analysis of Nizan 's texts as self-justifying autonomous products . |
| 4 | But the occasional visitor who is wanting more will find that he has a genuine opportunity to engage in worthwhile learning . |
| 5 | Being free from the constraint of responding to logged calls and from the need to react quickly to one call after another gives the neighbourhood police the opportunity to engage in prolonged contact with the public . |
| 6 | I think it was very worthwhile and certainly on the road home , Densen Mafinyani had an opportunity to engage in considerable debate over the future of Africa ! |
| 7 | to examine the effects of the decision to engage in paid work , or to abstain from it , on their social situation immediately prior to retirement ; |
| 8 | The practical consequence of the range of laws we have described was that , by 1979 , the freedom to engage in peaceful protest in this country was traditionally dependent not on the law but rather on the benevolent exercise of discretion by those in power . |
| 9 | If the formation and acquisition of knowledge has the character of a conversation , then students must be accorded an appropriate measure of freedom to engage in that conversation in their own way . |
| 10 | She cleans the rooms with efficient savagery , yet stops in a flash to engage in vigorous conversation , leaning on her mop handle , eyes to the ceiling . |
| 11 | For her it worked because of one other factor — her ability and willingness to engage at some depth with the concepts , ideas and questions evoked by the material . |
| 12 | It should encourage a willingness to engage on common ground , where ‘ meaning ’ theist and ‘ meaning ’ atheist conduct an argument in which each understands the other and indeed may convert the other . |
| 13 | Significant measures of freedom are necessary if the student is to acquire the virtues of intellectual independence , toughness , empathy with others ' views , and willingness to engage in meaningful conversation . |
| 14 | While " functional literacy " guarantees the capacity to engage in normal communication within one 's given " culture or group " , it does not guarantee the capacity to distinguish between good and bad in literature . |
| 15 | Guerrilla groups such as Carlos Marighela 's National Liberation Action in Brazil , Uruguay 's Tupamaros and the Montoneros in Argentina operated without Communist support and indeed were founded in the belief that the Moscow faithful lacked either the will or the capacity to engage in armed struggle . |
| 16 | on the one hand to provide a platform for asserting labor 's right to contend on an equal footing with capital but , on the other hand , to limit the very capacity to engage in militant confrontation . |
| 17 | There is a reluctance on the part of any social group to engage in overt discrimination against the members of another . |
| 18 | Fourth , the absence of penalties for abuses , such as involvement in price-fixing , means that firms have every incentive to engage in anticompetitive behaviour until they are discovered , as Williams points out in this issue . |
| 19 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 20 | The problem springs from the high degree of autonomy of individual teachers , a reluctance to engage in joint planning , and a lack of detailed records . |
| 21 | The traditional tenancy , because of its informal character , was seen as an obstacle to improvement in these respects … what incentive was there for the tenant farmer to engage in agricultural improvement ? |
| 22 | The reciprocal gift-giving between the partners has in no way reduced the obligation to engage in further gift exchanges in the future . |
| 23 | For example , the Act makes it an offence to engage in sexual contact or penetration in circumstances in which the actor causes personal injury to the victim and force or coercion is used to accomplish the contact or penetration . |
| 24 | In order to engage in such self-justification , the speaker must possess the ideological and argumentative tools for criticizing ‘ prejudice ’ , for the speaker wishes to escape from criticisms which could come equally from both self and audience . |
| 25 | For the unions , the nature of state intervention in railway industrial relations emphasizes the importance of political contacts and the ability to engage in political exchange . |
| 26 | His basic concerns involve the effects computer-use might have in fostering children 's ability to engage in disembedded thinking ; and the possibility that girls might not gain so much benefit from computer-use in school as boys . |
| 27 | The National Curriculum offers an opportunity for a school to engage in critical thinking about practice . |
| 28 | Not all organizations will be in a position to engage in formal co-optation , in which the representatives of outside interests share the ‘ burden of authority ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Everybody had their suspicions about him , ’ said Jonathan Miller , who worked with him ; ‘ A lot of it you would discount because he had a tendency to engage in rhetorical hyperbole . |
| 30 | If aggression is too much inhibited and inner-directed , the result may be immobilization and the incapacity to engage in any form of self-assertion . |