Example sentences of "task of [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few months of life in the community were dominated by support workers ' sense of heavy responsibility about the twin tasks of meeting the women 's physical and medical needs and , at the same time , enabling them to be as independent as possible . |
| 2 | However , by delegating authority to subordinates , the superior takes on the extra tasks of calling the subordinates to account for their decisions and performance , and also of coordinating the efforts of different subordinates . |
| 3 | To the traditional tasks of improving the climate in which members practice and provide them with support was added to the development of policies in fields such as housing , planning , energy and the environment and community architecture . |
| 4 | Guidance was given on the conduct of the interviews and a list of questions was provided to assist the tasks of reviewing the work of the teacher and setting targets . |
| 5 | This eliminates many of the previously described tasks of arranging a pulley and triangular secondary kiteline system and , in one single action , offers automatic release and return down the line for the next lift . |
| 6 | But for once , the regular Labour conference task of reminding the party the public purse is not bottomless was put in the shade by the two looming Tory conference tasks of presenting the poll tax — and 15 per cent base rates . |
| 7 | For lick of adequate progress in the improvement of central local party and social ties in general , he and others , including Lenin , diverted their energies into the immediate practical tasks of rehabilitating the transport system . |
| 8 | By asking about the everyday tasks of parenting the schedules obviate the need for time-consuming psychometric testing . |
| 9 | Domitila makes and sells pies and because this requires all the tasks of preparing the vegetables , buying the meat , cooking the pies , and then selling them , the children help her . |
| 10 | With the vast literature on this part of history that is available the social scientist has a difficult task of evaluating the information upon which he can draw . |
| 11 | And under the " public good " defence it may be relevant to the jury 's task of evaluating the merit of a particular book to compare it with other books of the same kind , and to hear expert evidence about the current climate of permissiveness in relation to this kind of literature . |
| 12 | Mr Lamont has been given the task of piloting the economy out of recession . |
| 13 | Hayek wishes to do so because he is not simply a traditionalist and is seeking to harness his insights to the task of providing a modern , rational reconstruction of liberalism . |
| 14 | Now that we have the outline of an approach to the study of the meanings of words , we can turn our attention to the task of providing a more exact characterisation of the linguistic units which will form the objects of our study . |
| 15 | This introduces further complications into the task of providing a principled account of the relations between hyponymy and entailment ; 9 provides an example : |
| 16 | Lord Sterling , P&O chairman , said : ‘ In management terms time is extremely short if we are to effect the changes necessary for the task of providing a viable alternative to the tunnel . ’ |
| 17 | So great had been the pace of development that the Commission was also recommending that attention should be turned to the much more complicated task of establishing a genuine economic union . |
| 18 | While the WTTERC , based at Oxford Brookes University and anxious to hear from more UK hotels with active environmental programmes * , continues its task of establishing a research base , identifying problem areas and probing ways of improving environmental practice , how bad an environmental offender is this industry ? |
| 19 | Given that so many of our waking hours are spent working , this is where the task of establishing the ethical claims of God 's kingdom are most needed . |
| 20 | In late July and early August , he was assigned the sombre task of accompanying the body of Gerda Taro in its journey back to France . |
| 21 | The management team of the North East District , said to be ‘ general management oriented before general management ’ , was given the task of considering the details of closure and the strategy for transfer of patients . |
| 22 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 23 | James took on the rather unglamorous task of editing the party paper , ‘ The Nation ’ and , almost single-handedly , established the paper 's reputation and prestige throughout the West Indies . |
| 24 | In the initial stages of analysis the researcher is faced with the task of assigning the appropriate semantic category to each token . |
| 25 | Whilst my sisters wiped up , from an early age I was given the task of transporting the clean china and utensils from the lid of the copper ( there was no draining board ) to the kitchen table for one of the adults to put away . |
| 26 | I lived on top of the sea , so the task of transporting the various fish home , and returning them if they were not suitable , posed few problems . |
| 27 | Parliament is sovereign and in theory it can give the task of determining the legal meaning of whatsoever it chooses to whomsoever it likes . |
| 28 | The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , they argued , pacifists should set themselves the more modest task of sustaining the voice of reason amidst the dementia of war . |
| 30 | Britain may not need to flaunt nationalism in the way characteristic of the United States but its education system can no more ignore the task of sustaining the national identity than education systems in any other nation-state . |