Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors . |
| 2 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 3 | The lack of vitamins in the British and Scottish diets , in particular , may explain why the incidence of heart disease is higher here than in the Mediterranean areas where blood cholesterol levels may be as high , but there is much less heart disease . |
| 4 | Pharmacologists , on the other hand , will point out that they now can design rational drugs which may influence precisely the functioning of the relevant gene product . |
| 5 | If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law … |
| 6 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 7 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 8 | We may consider rather the analogy of carpets being brought periodically into a shop for display and rolled out one by one on a pile . |
| 9 | Another letter is being sent to every club president , but suggestions that the SRU should make public the names of offenders and their sentences have been rejected . |
| 10 | Accordingly , one must stress again the importance of obtaining the documentation referred to above in addition to obtaining witness statements . |
| 11 | In between , both Justice and the Conservative Political Centre brought out reports urging that the State should compensate financially the victims of certain violent offences . |
| 12 | If a husband wishes to set up his own business , his wife should think through the implications of having her husband at home all day , if she is at home too . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State must explain how the assumptions of the review team differ from the assumptions that he now makes . |
| 14 | This is good traditional practice but the teacher should consider carefully the type of question to be asked . |
| 15 | Secondly , we should consider carefully the statutes of the monetary institution . |
| 16 | You should consider carefully the costs of this kind which relate to the course which you have chosen , and make allowance for further funds if required |
| 17 | Anyone still not convinced that the hungry fighter theory is flawed should consider then the case of Irish-American ring great , Jimmy McLarnin . |
| 18 | I do not suggest cause and effect , but authorities must consider carefully the effects of not implementing those measures . |
| 19 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 20 | However , the tenant 's advisers must study closely the terms of the deemed subletting . |
| 21 | The tenant 's advisers should study carefully the definition of turnover upon which the rent is to be calculated . |
| 22 | Christians should show forth the light of the transforming power of the gospel in their lives . |
| 23 | We doubt whether the shock-horror TV advertising campaign will directly stop youngsters sniffing solvents , but it should bring home the horrors of the practice to those who can do something about it parents . |
| 24 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 25 | We must break down the barriers of conditioning and open our minds to far higher goals . |
| 26 | But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts . |
| 27 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 28 | The Government must weigh up the needs of vital areas like job training , social security benefits , hospital building and the changeover to the council tax . |
| 29 | I recognise the importance of these processes , but if we wish to assess how exclusions might happen we must understand how the structure of the National Curriculum generates cases for exclusion . |
| 30 | But to suggest that we should toss out the Garden of Eden story because it is not necessarily literal historical fact would be a dangerous precedent . |