Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The imagery and language help conjure up the bleak picture of death in the two poems . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | How leather can bring out the dark side of your soul . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | If he had the slightest suspicion of how she really felt , it could well bring out the sympathetic side of his nature . |
| 17 | Materials should bring out the social significance of knowledge about language . |
| 18 | Teaching should also bring out the structural characteristics of different types of verse and poetry , eg nursery rhymes , concrete poetry , haiku , limericks , ballads , sonnets etc . |
| 19 | Labour will work in the United Nations , the Commonwealth , the European Community and NATO to help bring about the peaceful reunification of Cyprus , on the federal basis advocated by the sovereign government of Cyprus . |
| 20 | Like the patriarchal Victorian factory owners in Britain , they resisted any measures to eliminate child labour practices and the education of the masses , they opined , would bring about the economic ruin of the country . |
| 21 | The admission of new members to a Europe which allows them to adopt common policies only where they are feasible and productive , and the consequent necessary institutional changes which will allow existing members this option , would bring about the effective development of a ‘ Europe of varying geometry ’ in a calm and deliberate fashion . |
| 22 | To take the garbage pickers on at this rate would increase their costs and would bring about the additional cost of security benefits . |
| 23 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 24 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 25 | Listen , why do n't you ring up the social editor of the Advent , and tell her about your meeting tomorrow . |
| 26 | The more successful Du Pont synthetic rubber factory could never mop up the ever-growing pool of surplus labour . |
| 27 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 28 | Tonight 's AGM will weigh up the relative merits of two businessmen , John Kerr and Robert Fleeting , to assume control at Rugby Park . |
| 29 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps I might see in the rising of that sun some icon quintessentially Pacific , or think some thought which in a flash would sum up the essential message of the great Ocean . |