Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 2 | The privatisation will affect only the long-distance element of the network , which is run over lines leased from both British Telecom and Mercury . |
| 3 | We can now consider individually the different methods of incorporation . |
| 4 | to develop a microcomputer-based information retrieval system for use in secondary schools that will demonstrate realistically the basic principles of information storage and retrieval and at the same time serve as a practical system which can be used in the classroom to locate teaching and research materials ; |
| 5 | She knows the kinds of places she likes to work , sleep and eat in , and will instinctively seek out the right type of office , hotel , or restaurant . |
| 6 | The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition . |
| 7 | In this section , we will consider how the optimal solution of an LP can be found when the data is a function of a single parameter , . |
| 8 | The discussion was somewhat academic , however , as we were far from a complete knowledge of the laws of science , and we did n't know how the initial state of the universe was determined . |
| 9 | The indetermination that he sought to banish increasingly returned to haunt him ; he could never demonstrate how the unceasing totalization of multiplicity would ever reach its promised moment of finality . |
| 10 | As during the examination in public into the first alteration , this E I P will demonstrate again the wide measure of agreement between county and district councils . |
| 11 | And this is why your first attempt to conduct a great work will often end up as a disaster , because you do n't know where the real points of stress are , you do n't know how the piece is distributed . |
| 12 | Every shift , they face people who have lost lovers , lost jobs or lost families through AIDS or ( more often ) the fear of AIDS ; every shift they have to help people think through the new consequences of future sex or face the possible results of past ignorance . |
| 13 | It 's time we took a stronger line with wild-eyed enthusiasts who do n't think through the full consequences of their soft-hearted feelings . |
| 14 | Though it is possible that the facts of such a case might show merely the legitimate compromise of a claim to damages , on the other hand , the facts might be such as to constitute extortion and blackmail of a serious type . |
| 15 | They are ruminants and have special structures in their stomachs ( the rumen ) , containing special micro-organisms which can break down the hard parts of the plants . |
| 16 | Zuccarelli Labs also says that the patent does not give away the real secret of the invention . |
| 17 | The Moroccan Interior and Information Minister Driss Basri was reported on Jan. 12 , 1991 , as saying that the Western Sahara question would be settled definitively with the organizing of a referendum which would confirm conclusively the Moroccan character of the recovered Saharan provinces . |
| 18 | In this instance , you must finish off the raw edge of the hem either by overcasting or , for a really professional finish , by binding it with a fine bias binding . |
| 19 | Morton had met many like him ; the thrusting entrepreneurs who could shoulder aside the rigid structures of Victorian society , and almost be accepted … |
| 20 | The imagery and language help conjure up the bleak picture of death in the two poems . |
| 21 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 22 | The theory is that the household rubbish will soak up the ill effects of the nasty stuff the not — so accidental practical result is a large cost saving . |
| 23 | The fact that a storm may show up the poor condition of a flat roof does not signify that storm was the proximate cause of damage . |
| 24 | None of these measures will , of course , bring back the halcyon days of German science , or the immense amount of scientific talent lost to Germany — and usually to Europe — in the days of the Third Reich . |
| 25 | In December the formation of a Command of the People 's Army was announced which would carry out the professional management of the defence forces ; Lt-Gen Kalman Loerincz became commander , with the government rank of State Secretary . |
| 26 | Another issue , which commentators are keen to see debated widely , is the question of whether the Institute can effectively carry out the dual roles of protecting the interests of both the public and its members . |
| 27 | Should the ENP carry out the nursing care/treatment of all her patients , or should she delegate some of this work ( such as dressings or plastering ) to other nurses ? |
| 28 | All who are engaged in intra-EC trade must now show thereon the total value of all goods dispatched to other EC customers and received from other EC suppliers in the special boxes provided on the return form . |
| 29 | How leather can bring out the dark side of your soul . |
| 30 | While such studies as these do bring out the peculiar status of the causatives make and have ( which , I would agree , do involve a closer bond between the causative event and the event caused ) , they are nevertheless based on abstract semantic categories which have been set up a priori in logico-truth-conditional terms — Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 237 ) aptly characterizes them as " ready-made labels " — and therefore lose sight of the fact that each individual language is a system where meaning is bonded to form in permanent and idiosyncratic fashion ( cf. the comments on Ransom 1986 in the Introduction ) . |