Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | parents should always arrange if possible for their children to see old people of marked interest in their lives , so as to carry on the links of tradition … |
| 2 | Prices and incomes policies have been justified historically on the grounds that , if successful , they serve directly to scale down the rates of increase of money wages and absolute prices while minimizing the rise in unemployment which a policy of demand restriction would entail . |
| 3 | Even if an effective way could be found to pass on the costs of rubbish disposal to the average household , an awkward fact would remain . |
| 4 | Paradoxically the paid specialist therefore adds support to the voluntary ethos of the CAB by enabling the volunteer to meet better the demands of advice work . |
| 5 | To the great distress of his father , a natural conformist who was most anxious to secure a permanent post for his brilliant son , Wolfgang decided to shake off the shackles of patronage , and leave provincial Salzburg to go freelance in cosmopolitan Vienna . |
| 6 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 7 | Instead they need to find out the rhythms of speech which make the music of the verse work in dramatic form . |
| 8 | On Jan. 16 , Yeltsin reported to the Supreme Soviet that on his recent tour of the country to find out the effects of price liberalization he had found that local officials were not implementing government measures for social protection and that producers ' profit margins were too high . |
| 9 | Just before Christmas , the St John 's Innovation Centre conducted a survey amongst 600 senior executives to find out the levels of understanding of Open Systems concepts and of practical implementation issues . |
| 10 | It is we , however , who have to work out the connections of similarity and contrast between the expressions in the groups A to L , which thereby become representative of something more general , which could not be expressed by simply adding together the literal senses of the words . |
| 11 | To work out the lengths of ribbon needed , draw diagrams of the cushion to show the vertical and horizontal ribbons . |
| 12 | They are required to think about the new language and with guidance are helped to work out the rules of grammar for themselves . |
| 13 | In particular , policy rules and guidelines are necessary to spell out the presumptions of policy , but there should generally be a procedure by which firms can present a case for exemption if they can demonstrate offsetting efficiency gains ( an exception might be price-fixing cartels ) . |
| 14 | Certain cases dominate the coverage in the national press , and by using these cases it is possible to indicate how the images of sex beast are constantly being preferred to readers . |
| 15 | The judiciary will also be consulted when release is an actual possibility to meet fully the requirements of section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 . |
| 16 | It is in this sense that higher education can be said to institutionalize not the structures of knowledge , but the experience of uncertainty . |
| 17 | An understanding of this can do much to damp down the fires of impatience , and kindle those of tolerance in younger people , for ‘ Granny 's old stories ’ . |
| 18 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 19 | The soft , tight band strapped around her arm was nevertheless a comfort , as the pointer pushing up the dial , achieving a number , was a comfort , too , for now something was being done , someone would give her treatment to ward off the attacks of death . |
| 20 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 21 | Expecting a word processor operator to pick up the elements of design , typography and layout skills by simply going on a two-day course is just not realistic . |
| 22 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 23 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 24 | As we began to pick up the threads of life in the south once more I found that in my absence from the cutter scene a brand new purpose-built cutter Venturous was operating with great success . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The three codes of practice — the first stage in a planned series of codes intended to support the Taxpayer 's Charter — aim to set out the standards of service people can expect . |
| 27 | The same principle obtains if a man permits his personal belief to derange dramatically the laws of probability and what we know of human nature . |
| 28 | More specifically , PI allows user software to generate package structures within LIFESPAN , to read complete package structures out of LIFESPAN , to enter complete structures into LIFESPAN and to list out the details of package structures . |
| 29 | By law no preparations are to be made in anticipation of death , apart from allowing the loved ones due access , and the positioning of candles — symbolic of the flickering life and to chase away the forces of darkness . |
| 30 | He sought collaboration from various colleagues , including Marjory Stephenson ( see Chapter 8 ) in the nearby Department of Biochemistry , but made little progress before his departure from Cambridge to fill successively the chairs of pathology at Sheffield in 1932 and Oxford in 1935 . |