Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 2 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 3 | When establishing the Editing Commissions responsible for drawing up the Statute of 1861 , the Tsar had recognized the need to appoint men who not only could cope with the intricacies of the legislation involved but who positively favoured Emancipation , who were convinced in their hearts as well as their heads of its desirability . |
| 4 | Delegated legislation , decisions of the courts , and changing administrative practice , amounted to a sluggish dynamic for speeding up the ability of the criminal justice system to respond . |
| 5 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
| 6 | You may have worries about bringing up the subject of safer sex in case your partner thinks you are ‘ easy ’ or that you have ‘ slept around ’ . |
| 7 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 8 | There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance . |
| 9 | This is in addition to the normal purposes of cuts , such as keeping up the pace of the story , or giving emphasis to actions or reactions . |
| 10 | So your rule of thumb , for starting , is that if somebody 's spending more than two or three hours a day , perhaps , on accounts or stock-taking or whatever , then it might be worth checking out the possibility of using a computer . |
| 11 | The 34-year-old has been given a free transfer after turning down the offer of a new contract . |
| 12 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 13 | Four years after taking over the leadership of the party , he can still seem shallow and dull . |
| 14 | then said that he found other difficulties in Lord Roskill 's speech in Reg. v. Morris , and after setting out the facts of the case and quoting a long passage from that speech , at p. 332 , and also the answer to the certified question he continued , at pp. 283–284 : |
| 15 | This part is taken from the first 4 bars of the Pride And Joy solo and illustrates a great device for filling out the sound of your lines . |
| 16 | So , while it is always worth seeking out the names of journalists who have a special interest in your subject , and if appropriate sending the releases to them at home as well as to their office , always be sure to send your releases to the newsdesk and perhaps to one or two others on the paper too if it is appropriate . |
| 17 | Dictionary for seeking out the meaning of every word you are uncertain about . |
| 18 | There is now considerable scope for pushing back the onset of morbidity in old age into fewer and fewer years with properly targeted health promotion and illness prevention policies and the widespread adoption of healthier lifestyles . |
| 19 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 20 | This was later to be criticised as imposing an unnecessary conservatism on design ( pp. 104–10 , below ) , but at that time ( with shortages of skilled draughtsmen and engineers , and the overriding priority of speeding up the installation of safe and reliable sets ) it was widely supported by the manufacturers and the CEB as well as in Whitehall . |
| 21 | Given the paucity of aggregate savings and the narrow base for taxation , most governments in LDCs resort to budgetary deficits , financed through the printing of money , as a means of speeding up the process of economic development . |
| 22 | Perhaps the best way of illustrating just how this operates in practice and how far-reaching its effects can be in terms of building up the involvement of an entire school community in a philosophy and policy for the future is to show what has happened in one Lincolnshire school . |
| 23 | The process of building up the strength of shared commitment can seldom be consciously managed in a schools . |
| 24 | It is the duty of the community to provide through its social and welfare services the advice and support which such parents and children need … such help should always be directed towards building up the responsibility of the parents whenever this is at all possible ( Home Office , 1960 ) . |
| 25 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 26 | The main means of bringing about the decay of bureaucratic relations for Hegedus ( 1976 ) are : |
| 27 | If you absolutely insist in giving all your information in the first answer , there 's no room for a further question , and the best kind of response is the one that leaves the next question sort of hanging on the end of it , so that the interviewer can come back with another question . |
| 28 | The liquidators and solicitors in charge of winding up the Bank of Credit and Commerce International are costing £1m a week . |
| 29 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 30 | Dearden was , of course , joining the ranks of Professors Peters and Hirst in their misguided pursuit of spelling out the logic of education and overlooking its dynamics in doing so . |