Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The western powers have an interest in seeing how we can assist with dismantling the nuclear arsenals of those three republics . |
| 2 | While some linguists may concentrate on determining the formal properties of a language , the discourse analyst is committed to an investigation of what that language is used for . |
| 3 | I suppose the choir at Beverley should be thankful he did not think of performing the nine lessons and carols up there on top of the tower . |
| 4 | EPA administrator Carol Browner described the auction as a success , claiming that it proved " utilities and the public are taking emission trading seriously and that a market-based approach to environmental policy can succeed in meeting the dual goals of environmental protection and economic growth " . |
| 5 | The implications for raising standards of care in the profession are tremendous if employing authorities can succeed in meeting the desired out-comes of the UKCC in centres throughout the UK . |
| 6 | Sartre took four years to respond , and when the reply eventually came even his most sympathetic admirers agreed that it did not succeed in answering the main criticisms . |
| 7 | No increase in laws , compacts , and penalties can succeed in overcoming the fundamental contradictions of the system . |
| 8 | And most countries should benefit from copying the few nations who have introduced legislation banning companies from manufacturing drinks-cans in two different metals — as this makes recycling harder . |
| 9 | It was rather a joint discussion of whether it was better to precipitate a strike or the unemployment which would result from continuing the present terms . |
| 10 | There are no easy answers to these questions , but businesses could benefit by considering the following issues : |
| 11 | You may wish to include these individuals in your army , which you can easily do by paying the appropriate points cost . |
| 12 | Stefan , can you see about ordering the old sets and costumes ? |
| 13 | Though I acknowledge the need for caution in the development of counselling services and for more scientific evidence for the effectiveness of different types of counselling , this should not conflict with taking the first steps . |
| 14 | What accessories or trimmings might you use in displaying the following goods : |
| 15 | Do n't wan na use the French doors ! |
| 16 | Do n't wan na use the French doors all the time would n't you ? |
| 17 | If you are in a quandary , however , as to which to choose , and are unsure of the different kinds of work available in both sectors , you could begin by reading the classified advertisements in either Nursing Times or Nursing Standard . |
| 18 | If biologists wanted to know how an organism such as the human body worked , they might begin by examining the various parts such as the brain , lungs , heart and liver . |
| 19 | I find that the weather and seasonal changes play a large part in my ideas about landscape and I shall persist in stalking the same places throughout the seasons and years . |
| 20 | Better Schools indicated the duty the governors would have in determining the curricular aims and objectives , and subsequent Education Acts have put this into legislation . |
| 21 | MAS will approach in writing the principal shareholders of the shortlisted targets decided upon by yourselves to ascertain whether they would be interested in considering your proposals . |
| 22 | They include the contents of the late publisher 's mansion in Oxfordshire , and the money raised will go towards paying the enormous debts on his estate . |
| 23 | Moreover , while Ms Heneson does mention in passing the other categories of AIDS victims — Haitian immigrants , IV drug users and transfused haemophiliacs — she refers to AIDS as the ‘ latest manifestation of Sodom and Gomorrah , ’ which betrays a serious ignorance of current Biblical scholarship , and she emphasises ‘ sexually hyperactive , urban gay men ’ . |
| 24 | Tertiary , prevention … would aim at avoiding the worst consequences of a child actually having to spend long periods in substitute care . |
| 25 | Integrity expands and deepens the role individual citizens can play in developing the public standards of their community because it requires them to treat relations among themselves as characteristically , not just spasmodically , governed by these standards . |
| 26 | On this question of proven worth , what criteria did you adopt in choosing the five artists for the historical section housed in the tower of the Fridericianum ? |
| 27 | And when we examine those repetitive media messages , we find amongst them those which dull , which desensitise , and which may ultimately disinhibit by eroding the internalised constraints which are part and parcel of the civilising process , constraints we used to learn at our mother 's knee , and which we discard at our peril . |
| 28 | The father came before the judge on an ex parte application designed to return the boy , A. , to the family , to protect the other three children and to preserve the status quo pending a decision by the judge as to where the children should live by making the appropriate applications for a residence order and so on . |
| 29 | In identifying and responding to real needs he did not shrink from touching the painful spots . |
| 30 | We did not shrink from making the necessary changes then and I will not shrink from making them today . |