Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he wishes to do is to establish through everyday occurrences the realization within you of his existence . |
| 2 | The decision to accuse with serious crimes the Rathcoole UDA officers held in Long Kesh can be seen as part of the NIO 's strategy for forestalling a general strike confrontation with the combined physical force and political wings of loyalism in the context of the coming constitutional convention . |
| 3 | Since it may take decades for water to percolate into these aquifers the problem is a long-term one , and bearing in mind the increasing use of artificial fertilizer since the war , one which may return . |
| 4 | ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires . |
| 5 | The company must be able to communicate to potential customers the way in which its product would satisfy their needs , and provide competitive value . |
| 6 | Only as the client is thoroughly involved and comes to accept on deepening levels the process of change can our methods be effective in relation to our goals ( Bernstein , 1960 , p. 8 ) . |
| 7 | The legislative function is exercised mainly through Parliament which has the power to make laws of general applicability and to grant to other bodies the power to make delegated legislation under authority of an act of parliament . |
| 8 | The 1882 Act in one respect served to grant to middle-class women the rights in property enjoyed by the middle-class male . |
| 9 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 10 | The point I think is not to count the numbers of fish raised , but to pass to fellow fishkeepers the knowledge gained . |
| 11 | Rather than waiting for more individual tenants to bring the same problem , it would be more efficient for the bureau to alert the local authority concerned and to explore with interested clients the possibility of a tenants ' association . |
| 12 | It is essential when planning for negotiations to define in broad terms the stances that will be adopted . |
| 13 | However , given the importance of receiving the information required under the section 39 notice to the Bank 's supervision of the defendant and in order to support the [ defendants ' ] application , I am able to state in broad terms the grounds of the investigation and the reasons for the Bank 's supervisory concern . |
| 14 | In addition , it will be possible to chart in these children the emergence of early awareness of the sound structure of words , and to identify the cognitive and social precursors of this phonological awareness . |
| 15 | On the one hand , a school curriculum must fulfil its primary function of serving to open to new ideas the minds of those who follow it . |
| 16 | In the growing meeting of religions , he will want to discuss with Buddhist friends the possibility of equating dhamma with the Christian concept of God , though without the personal elements . |
| 17 | In order to comply with these conditions the Society needs the help IMMEDIATELY of EVERY Q.T. |
| 18 | As a focus for discussion , the character of Anderson , in Stoppard 's play , Professional Foul , has been chosen , and a wide range of approaches taken from discourse analysis and pragmatics is used to identify in particular scenes the ways in which four prominent character traits are deducible from his conversational behaviour . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , I think its effect is to distort in some ways the dualism set up by Proust . |
| 20 | In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole . |
| 21 | Another way out of the problem of fraud could be to require from both parties the presentation of a birth certificate as a prerequisite for the issuing of a marriage licence , as is done in some states in the United States . |
| 22 | The taxi-drivers waiting on the rank looked knowingly at the racing pages of evening papers folded into quarters , ready to suggest to uncertain fares the addresses of drinking clubs and prostitutes . |
| 23 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 24 | When choosing a bow you should try to acquire above all others the mountain bow of Ghazna . |
| 25 | And what , thought reformers , could be more effective in pursuit of this goal than to inculcate in young workers the values of citizenship — a popular doctrine which drew support from all political perspectives ? |
| 26 | A referendum on Dec. 1 , 1989 , approved King Hassan 's decision to extend by two years the term of the current Chamber of Representatives . |
| 27 | A referendum on Dec. 1 , 1989 , approved Hassan 's decision to extend by two years the term of the current Chamber [ see p. 37219 ] . |
| 28 | Whilst this may look like easy fun for those who did not have to cope with the impossible timetables and endless pressures , the reason for criticism is not to deride the working groups but to understand in concrete terms the limitations of the system now in operation . |
| 29 | It is also affected by the attitudes of those in the respective management structures , who have power to reward in specific ways the activities of their subordinates . |
| 30 | Chapter 4 extended the analysis to consider in economic terms the position of the ‘ personal sector ’ wage and salary-earning employees , and the effects of the saving of this sector on accumulation — the expansion of the salaried strata in particular being , at least in part , the obverse of the rise of the impersonal capital . |