Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [n mass] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , when we asked deaf people to examine videotapes of teachers using simultaneous communication , their rating of effectiveness closely matched their rating of the teachers ' use of facial expression . |
| 2 | This project looks at aspects of the migrants ' housing experience , using aggregate statistics to establish general tenure patterns and interviews to recreate biographical histories . |
| 3 | The freedom gained by using electronic means to create the page has already changed those working methods and is , itself , leading to new conventions . |
| 4 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 5 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 6 | A programme called ‘ Puppets Against AIDS ’ is using popular media to break through cultural and racial barriers as an instrument of information . |
| 7 | In addition to the specific limitations , there is the general caution which should be exercised in using historical data to document social change . |
| 8 | The police searched surrounding buildings and then asked some staff to return to shops and begin their own search . |
| 9 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 10 | BRITISH Telecom has given another £25,000 to help the innovative Botanic Centre lay down firm roots in Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | Young , Hay , and Ellis ( 1985 ) asked 22 people to keep records over an eight-week period of difficulties they experienced in recognizing people . |
| 12 | the primary objective of departmental policies … is to enable old people to maintain independent lives in the community for as long as possible . |
| 13 | A team or teams of qualified clinical psychologists can be found in every district health authority , so there is no excuse for general practitioners using unqualified staff to treat patients who have a psychological problem or condition . |
| 14 | The role of adult education , in this respect , is therefore twofold : to provide leisure or recreational courses to enable unemployed people to fill in their increased ‘ leisure hours ’ with personally satisfying ( but cheap ) activities ; and to ensure that in a variety of ways unemployed people are ‘ reintegrated ’ into society , brought within the norms of the dominant culture , and protected from deviant modes of thought and behaviour . |
| 15 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 16 | Education is important in enabling rural people to organise and plan , as much as it is in ensuring that the urban majority understand the nature of rural problems and lend their support to solving them . |
| 17 | On Oct. 25 , ECOMOG forces , hitherto essentially defensive in their stance , used Nigerian aircraft to bomb rebel positions 5 km outside Monrovia . |
| 18 | They used minute-to-minute data to fit a simultaneous equations model of the determination of spot and futures prices for the MMI . |
| 19 | Earth scientists should not be quick to modify geological data to accommodate model simulations ; rather , the acceptability of climate simulations should be judged on how well they reproduce independently established geological facts . |
| 20 | This illustrates the need for effective skills training , but it was agreed that such training had to be voluntary and should provide some incentive to encourage unemployed people to take it up . |
| 21 | In contrast to the homespun approach of Chiles , Martinez was believed to have amassed some $7,000,000 to spend on his November campaign , and was expected to use negative tactics . |
| 22 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 23 | So you 're virtually condemning some people to operate below subsistence |
| 24 | An agricultural commune was established at Lindfield but seems to have been short-lived , and Lord Chichester helped 300 people to emigrate . |
| 25 | That means , it only needs another 8% to gain overall control . |
| 26 | Analysts calculate that Chen needs another $60m to get the machine into manufacturing and start marketing a four-processor configuration , which would sell for about $10m ; the latest plan had the machine growing to 32 processors . |
| 27 | My God surely they do n't need ordinary people to have new words , they just look around in universities ! |
| 28 | And then , " In my view , Comrade Andrew has bigger fish to fry . " |
| 29 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 30 | In such a sample , the researcher specifies what type of people he or she wants in the sample , within broad categories ( quotas ) , and it is left up to the interviewer to find such people to interview . |