Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We share that judgement and intend to continue with the passage of the Bill . ’ |
| 2 | My examples tend to come from the part of the world where I live , but the same principles apply wherever you happen to be . |
| 3 | However , animal experiments have shown that , if tobacco extracts are painted on rabbits ' ears , cancerous growths tend to appear on the skin of the ear . |
| 4 | The Liberal Democrats intend to concentrate on the prevention of crime by putting more policemen on the beat and setting up special committees to discuss law and order . |
| 5 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 6 | As is the case with most areas of text-linguistics , linguists tend to concentrate on the analysis of signalling devices in English and extrapolate from that to other languages . |
| 7 | This appears to be reflected in the character of the Anglo-Norman fabliaux , which — small though their number is and therefore a rather unreliable basis for generalizations — tend to concentrate upon the adventures of knightly characters , and to develop the characters they contain in terms which , however facile , represent the aristocratic or courtly ethos : characters are frequently identified as " " bel " " , " fine " , for instance , and given " noble " motives for their actions , such as the lady of Un Chevalier , sa dame et un clerc , who , superficially at least , gives herself to the clerk as an act of pity , in order to avoid his dying of his " " maladie " " of love . |
| 8 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 9 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 10 | If you want to go through the details of assignment and analysis , there are many excellent treatments that will help you , varying in depth from the brief but extremely clear account in Ref. [ 20 ] to long and complicated books on the subject , for example , Ref. [ 21 ] . |
| 11 | I want to go through the process of what we really have to do and consider to build up the story . |
| 12 | We propose to remain within the centre of the Community , framing the future of the Community in the interests of the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe . |
| 13 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 14 | If we are outside , we shall not enjoy the advantages of a single currency or have the investment in this country of those companies — our own and overseas firms — which want to invest in the core of Europe and enjoy full access to all that goes on in Europe . |
| 15 | There are also more specialised information sources you might need to use : if you want to know about the readership of a particular contemporary magazine or newspaper , for example ( perhaps as part of a study of the relation between ideology and audience ) you could use BRAD ( " British Rate and Data " ) , which lists advertising rates and audited newspaper and magazine circulations . |
| 16 | If you just want to work on the length of pipe between the cistern and the taps , shut the gatevalve first ( if there is one ) opening the taps will drain the pipe . |
| 17 | I was just commenting er , you know , we just want to work in the County of Lincolnshire , I presume . |
| 18 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 19 | In this chapter I want to concentrate on the response of community educators , particularly their reaction to the problems and issues facing the working class . |
| 20 | Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need . |
| 21 | If you want to talk about the work of an author , you need to judge how many texts to talk about and how varied your selection needs to be ( many authors write in different modes : novels , short stories , poems , diaries and letters , etc ) . |
| 22 | I want to talk about the use of computers in actual research , and the features of that use which derive from the special characteristics of the humanities . |
| 23 | Those with very small buccal capsules , like the trichostrongyloids , or simple oral openings , like the ascaridoids , generally feed on mucosal fluid and cell debris , while others , such as the oxyuroids , appear to scavenge on the contents of the lower gut . |
| 24 | I SUPPOSE I should be cheering myself hoarse that Britain has finally produced a heavyweight fit to challenge for the championship of the world in the person of Lennox Lewis . |
| 25 | If you really want to win in the game of life , you 've got to be prepared to fail sometimes . |
| 26 | Firstly I want to look at the idea of partnership . |
| 27 | I want to look at the consequences of replacing these assumptions by two others : that we should concentrate on how mind might develop out of matter ; and that we should view the mind primarily as something which enables action . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry to inflict this on you , Miss Glynn , but I want to look at the contents of the bureau amongst other things and it is better that a member of the family should be present . |
| 29 | The Republic 's Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said today the new generation of Irish people want to escape from the shackles of the past . |
| 30 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |