Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that he did not expect such an acceptable method of slaughter to evolve in the near future . |
| 2 | There is a tendency therefore for young teachers to be unwilling to go to a rural school ; and for over a third of headteachers to live in the nearest large town . |
| 3 | TEN City executives and a solicitor were yesterday bailed for a total of £1.1million after appearing at Guildhall magistrates court on charges of conspiracy to defraud in the Blue Arrow rights issue . |
| 4 | But they are being forced to do it by fragrant Virginia , who 's actually trying to reduce the ability of dentists to perform in the National Health Service as they want to do , and as they always have done . |
| 5 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 6 | At the more concrete level of legal rules , we find that many of the difficulties which the law has faced in defining the duties of directors to act in the best interests of the company stem from a conflict between the traditional contractual model of the company and the corporatist countervision . |
| 7 | Second , there is empirical work which looks for evidence that fiscal considerations play any part at all in the decision of individuals to reside in a particular locality . |
| 8 | The bacteria fed initially on the various carbon compounds that had taken so many millions of years to accumulate in the primordial seas . |
| 9 | Please could you tell me the best form of algae to keep in a fish-only aquarium ? |
| 10 | If such people with planned social care can be kept in their own homes it is worth pressing for flexibility of resources to put in the extra help needed . |
| 11 | A significant contemporary manifestation of that belief , and a vivid instance of how ‘ modern ’ sexuality became a surrogate religion , somewhere for an essentially religious notion of integrity to survive in a mutated and displaced form , was at the prosecution for obscenity of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover ( 1960 ) . |
| 12 | Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city . |
| 13 | We have grown used to expecting the Spirit of God to speak in a gentle whisper , not a roaring wind . |
| 14 | The linear pattern of development was an indication that God had programmed the whole history of life to move in a purposeful direction towards higher levels of intelligence . |
| 15 | That power enables the Secretary of State to intervene in the private sector and , in a sense , to discriminate against one particular group of private sector companies those which take over one of the STG subsidiaries . |
| 16 | This could be the result of a tendency for the larger bodies in the final stages of accretion to lie in the orbital plane of the Moon , with the Moon already possessing an axial inclination similar to that of today . |
| 17 | ‘ We have achieved our two objectives — to encourage young chefs to look out for and use British ingredients in their recipes , and also to find a delicious selection of dishes to use in the British menu promotion later this year . ’ |
| 18 | There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’ |
| 19 | We can expand , therefore , Kossen 's original definition so that our definition of leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction within a given context . |
| 20 | St Paul understood the distinctive heart of Christianity to lie in the historic facts of the gospel ; the Jesus of history was one with the Christ of his faith , who was also the eternal wisdom of God in creation . |
| 21 | Surface area is the most important factor , allowing plenty of bacteria to flourish in a small space . |
| 22 | Crusaders had nothing of note to show in the first half apart from a drive lofted over the bar by Stephen Lynch from Burrows ' free kick in the second minute and a double save by Distillery keeper Steve Collins from Steven Livingstone in the 31st minute . |
| 23 | If the prevailing rate of interest were greater than an individual 's conception of the normal rate , that individual would expect the rate of interest to fall in the near future . |