Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may limit the ability of these hospitals to meet their pledges of maximum inpatient waiting times of two years . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ I know we all call this place the summer-house , and it is only used to keep salmon nets and baskets in nowadays , but it is really a gazebo , where the local gentry used to meet their ladies of ill repute in the old days . ’ |
| 3 | It is therefore possible to calculate the quadrupole moment of this system and to infer its output of gravitational radiation . |
| 4 | A massive increase in the contribution currently made by renewable sources to Europe 's overall energy needs is required if the Community is to meet its goal of stabilising carbon dioxide output by the year 2000 , according to the European Commission . |
| 5 | The rise triggered warnings by environmentalists that Britain would fail to meet its target of freezing carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 unless the government acted quickly to introduce tight controls on the burning of coal , gas and oil . |
| 6 | Returning to the example given earlier of the broker/dealer department advising customer A to purchase shares in company B when the corporate finance department is advising B and knows that it is on the verge of insolvency , the question arises as to what the firm must divulge to A in order to modify its duty of undivided loyalty to A to the extent necessary to permit it to withhold the information about B. |
| 7 | The ability to do this arises from the fee earners ' specialist knowledge of the field , the aquisition and development of which must be the starting point for any firm wishing to increase its volume of personal injury work . |
| 8 | Crosfield is to increase its production of granular sodium disilicate at its site in Eijsden , The Netherlands . |
| 9 | Digital Biometrics Inc , Minnetonka , Minnesota maker of electronic fingerprint systems says it has filed an amended registration statement with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to increase its shares of common stock to 2m — the public currently holds 1.0m and another 1.0m shares are held by the its principal shareholder ; proceeds from the latest offering will be used to buy back and cancel the principal shareholder 's shares . |
| 10 | In the second year , optional courses allow students to study electronic composition or modern American music , or to increase their knowledge of early music . |
| 11 | In contrast to the merchants and traders , they had an increasing need to concentrate on investment in fixed capital in their own enterprises , and indeed , with canal carriage reducing raw material costs and quite possibly releasing capital tied up in inventories , on their ability to increase their stock of fixed capital . |
| 12 | All function words in this list are assigned an index of zero , to indicate their lack of semantic content and hence non-participation in the overlap process . |
| 13 | Unable to impose their idea of common sense on the Daily News 's unions , Tribune managers are now intent on either selling or closing the paper . |
| 14 | But he rails in such a disgusting way against the play 's characters that it is difficult to accept his view of human life . |
| 15 | B. Insofar as surplus income is retained in the company the retiring partner will seek to extract his share of surplus income by asking an enhanced price for his shares in the company on retirement . |
| 16 | The ability to visualise the stomach in the fed state may help to increase our knowledge of gastric function , especially in tracing the passage of gastric chyme during the initial stages of digestion . |
| 17 | This leads to the relaxation potential model , which can be used to rationalize observed chemical shifts , to predict the chemical shifts of new systems and , it is hoped , to increase our understanding of chemical bonding . |
| 18 | Molecular biology is continuing to increase our understanding of metazoan evolution , yet information from fossils is still an important component in deciphering metazoan phylogeny , and data on rapidly radiating animal groups place early metazoan evolution in a new perspective . |
| 19 | For part of the second and third years , students spend six months studying Arabic in an Arabic-speaking country , and then return to continue their investigation of Islamic culture and Arabic literature of all periods . |
| 20 | Secondly , our position is clear : we will not allow the House of Commons to lose its control of public spending . |
| 21 | In ages past the Khan-queens of the Gospodars learned how to draw upon the icy magic to weave their spells of frozen destruction . |
| 22 | We have raised many questions about the particular package of policies , recommendations , messages and specifications through which the Authority sought to implement its vision of primary education . |
| 23 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 24 | Anne McIntosh , MEP for North East Essex , is pressing the Government to reverse its policy of controlled retreat , which allows the sea to gradually take its natural course . |
| 25 | This is the challenge facing community educators : a challenge which requires them to engage in a process of reflection on their action : to clarify their views of the crisis facing the working class : to face up to certain contradictions in their practice : to sharpen their sense of social commitment . |
| 26 | Toshiba Corp is to raise its capital investment in plant and equipment at its Display Technologies Inc 50-50 joint venture with IBM Japan Ltd to triple its output of thin-film transistor liquid crystal colour displays . |
| 27 | In the 1930s , the Supreme Court began to widen its interpretation of free speech to include writings and films of little or no artistic merit , provided they did not include ‘ licentious ’ speech , the forms of which were listed in 1942 as libel , slander , insulting or ‘ fighting ’ words , and obscenity , all of which were excluded from First Amendment protection . |
| 28 | To use the linguist 's terminology , they would be referred to as weak methods , to reflect their lack of theoretical rigour . |
| 29 | Given the horrific effects which are bound to be visited upon the countries of Eastern Europe in the event of a prolonged conflict , the Warsaw Pact 's non-Soviet members may be disinclined to resist he logic of Soviet strategy . |
| 30 | I did n't explain why and took instead a tartan scarf — to be Rob Roy , I said , but actually to conceal my lack of proper neckwear . |