Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | basis for the adjustment and co-ordination of action unsurpassed in its own way … evolution consists in the gradual replacement of instinct by reason and , it is the final goal of reason … to bring all the experience of the race to bear in organising the whole life of the race . |
| 2 | ASTON Villa manager Ron Atkinson allowed Thursday 's transfer deadline to pass without opening the famous chequebook . |
| 3 | Maintenance costs are frequently reduced and with regard to cooking equipment , some new methods can save the chef time and effort on mundane tasks , leaving the skilled craftsman or woman more time to concentrate on creating the culinary masterpieces that guarantee the future of the restaurant . |
| 4 | In the 1990s it 's fashionable to concentrate on healing the inner self , to soothe away the stresses and rigours of modern life . |
| 5 | Responsibility for pay has now been delegated to Inland Revenue management , leaving Treasury ministers to concentrate on establishing the required standards of service . |
| 6 | DHAs will be freed from the responsibility for operational management to enable them to concentrate on achieving the optimum improvement in the health of the population they serve . |
| 7 | He 's trying to concentrate on saying the right things and singing the songs . |
| 8 | ‘ It gives us the opportunity to work on persuading the huge catchment area around us that it is perfectly possible to get the Hamilton habit after work when experiencing a top evening out . ’ |
| 9 | Indigenous peoples from northern Russia are demanding a halt to work on exploiting the Udokan copper deposit until the Russian parliament has passed legislation on the economic status of the region and the rights of indigenous people . |
| 10 | Give your time not to outraged attacks on what offends you but to the more urgent and useful task of teaching pupils how to spell by considering the recurring patterns of English spelling . |
| 11 | These in turn have raised difficulties of evidence and proof in law which legislatures have attempted to circumvent by rejecting the traditional prerequisites of some degree of mental intent on the part of the deviant actor — the concept of mens rea — in favour of the ostensibly more easily managed notion of strict liability , permitting ( in theory ) legal enforceability of a prohibition without regard to the blameworthiness of the actor ( Harvard Law Review , 1979 ; Jacobs , 1971 ; Paulus , 1974 ) . |
| 12 | Mutation has to work by modifying the existing processes of embryonic development . |
| 13 | The above example also prompts discussion of the extent to which a school might be required to go towards accommodating the diverse needs of various ethnic minority groups represented amongst the pupil body . |
| 14 | And there are 30 prizes of £175 to go towards paying the dreaded Poll Tax . |
| 15 | To talk of getting the full charge of the Divine Comedy — or more modestly and exactly , the fullest charge the particular reader is capable of getting — while treating Dante 's master as an irrelevance , is nonsense ; … |
| 16 | To talk of entering the subjective experience of another is misleading . |
| 17 | He lacked the skill to talk without revealing the hashed contents of his meal . |
| 18 | The elaborate four-track layout completed in 1925 allowed cars to reverse without impeding the through cars . |
| 19 | On Oct. 5 the Standing Committee of the Supreme People 's Assembly approved North Korea 's first law on foreign investment , in a move which was intended to help in reviving the stagnating economy . |
| 20 | An easily accessible design guide has been launched to help in identifying the environmental impact of the systems and materials used by the construction industry . |
| 21 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the Department of Trade and Industry has an important role to play in creating the right climate for manufacturing industry ? |
| 23 | There is a discipline element in education and both parents and teachers have a role to play in asserting the right habits and respect for education . ’ |
| 24 | We believe that N C V O has a key role to play in involving the voluntary sector in representing your concerns . |
| 25 | Indeed , this refusal to even recognise that the populations of the Arab world do have a role to play in establishing the future stability of the Middle East and North Africa typifies the current state of Western strategic thinking over the region . |
| 26 | With adverts exclusively featuring models of European stock , Lauren continues to prosper by bucking the multicultural signs of the times . |
| 27 | They aim to win by detaching the Labour Party as a whole . ’ |
| 28 | Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process . |
| 29 | Far from being the ‘ safe ’ appointment as most people imagined — an impression enhanced when he resigned from the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland after refusing to apologise for attending the Catholic funeral mass of a colleague — he has turned out to be a sweeping , radical reformer . |
| 30 | But sixteen days later , on 18 February 1756 , Miller quickly wrote to apologise for giving the wrong name of the ship by which he had sent seeds , roses and cedar cones , and also to thank Bartram for his letter of 9 December in which he mentioned he would like the Norway Maple . |