Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that alkaloid level fluctuations may affect the feeding patterns of orang-utans through the day . |
| 2 | Again , the behaviour of predators may affect the pollinating activities of animals such as bats , encouraging them to make short visits repeatedly , rather than long ones . |
| 3 | He told the conference pre-natal viral illness may explain the higher rates of schizophrenia , found in city-born people and in Afro-Caribbean immigrants in England . |
| 4 | The adversarial critique may explain the early stages of a government 's record but Rose 's ‘ moving consensus ’ is more relevant to an understanding of the long-term trends . |
| 5 | Swimming : There 's an enormous ‘ Aquarena ’ in Kitzbuhel itself , or you may prefer the warm waters of the Schwarzsee , which is just over a mile from the centre . |
| 6 | This group may include the distant ancestors of the sharks , but they must have been somewhat ponderous animals compared with the streamlined hunters of modern seas . |
| 7 | A few may flourish the 14 pages of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , 1970 ; seven inches of section 2 specifies a local authority 's obligation to lay on just about everything short of a course in elephant skinning : meals , education , holidays , telephones , and recreation are all there in paragraphs ( a ) to ( h ) . |
| 8 | He argues that the convention partners should affirm the broad principles of the scheme for a devolved Scottish parliament in the UK agreed before the last election and move on to adopt an educational role . |
| 9 | present in brief checklist form the protocols that should govern the different kinds of cross-border interaction ; and |
| 10 | Under Article 65 the party which invokes a ground for invalidity or termination must notify the other parties of its claim ; each other party has the right to raise an objection and to invoke the measures for the peaceful settlement of disputes in Article 33 of the Charter . |
| 11 | Next , it must notify the concerned states of what it has done — another condition that Libya has fulfilled . |
| 12 | His wish that the entire community might join in the responses had met with no immediate assent and so , apart from the hymns , his own voice and the clerk 's must remain the sole conductors of divine energy . |
| 13 | Of course the role of the trustees is , is , is re- affirmed really by Good who er says that there under the under trust or as he sees it , the trustees should remain the legal owners of the fund and I wonder if we can move on to ownership . |
| 14 | For too long have many eminent members of the Institute been shy about such debate , hiding behind the feeble argument that it must respect the conflicting views of different modes of transport . |
| 15 | Most transactions involve substantial numbers of tens of thousands of pounds and whether it is your firm or your employer 's firm , you must respect the large sums of money which any conveyancer is called upon to handle in every week of his working life . |
| 16 | In other words , the counsellor must seek the real feelings of the counsellee through careful listening to what is being said , how it is being said , and how this appears to relate to the real situation . |
| 17 | To construct a mathematical model , the designer must translate the essential characteristics of a real world phenomenon , such as air flow around the wings of a fighter aircraft , into a set of mathematical equations . |
| 18 | The steering committee implementing it should include the functional heads of finance , personnel , automation and operations at the two banks , under the chairmanship of a senior manager from the acquiring bank . |
| 19 | But in two matters which concern primarily what we should consider the civil rights of everyone , the Church Courts long retained their jurisdiction : the disposition of the goods of the dead , and questions of marriage and divorce . |
| 20 | If you are making the set of pictures as a gift , you should consider the favourite colours of the recipient or perhaps choose shades that blend with a colour scheme in their home . |
| 21 | In criminal matters you should know the sentencing powers of the court in case your client is convicted ; not only may this help you in your plea in mitigation ( if one is possible ) , but it is your duty to intervene if the judge by mistake exceeds his powers . |
| 22 | This indicates that we must consider the stretching motions of both bonds together . |
| 23 | We must consider the long-standing interests of this country when we make decisions on the treaties , and that is what I will do . |
| 24 | Sir : The ongoing debate about the suggestion by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals ( CVCP ) that universities must identify the full costs of their undergraduate programmes and should examine various ways in which these costs might be met seems to me to have largely missed the main point at issue . |
| 25 | To do so I must sketch the bare outlines of the opposing views on the conceptual issues , to see which one harmonises more with evolutionary conjectures about language . |
| 26 | He continued : " This experience boils down to one point : we must integrate the fundamental principles of Marxism with the concrete realities of the Chinese revolution and national development and keep to our own road . " |
| 27 | The financing and tax structure adopted must accommodate the commercial requirements of all the parties involved , as well as the reasons for the buy-out . |
| 28 | Second , the implication that indigenous languages have no part to play , and that mass literacy campaigns should use the official languages of government which are a direct legacy of European colonialism . |
| 29 | Nuttall ( 1980 ) questioned the secondary survey in a similar vein , saying that HMI should employ the methodological standards of research . |
| 30 | France has shown some sympathy ; an independent nuclear power , it has never accepted the notion that Russians and Americans between them should run the nuclear affairs of the world , let alone the post-Soviet world . |