Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the other barriers to growth beyond a low level of activity appear to be the investor base and hence placing power of established firms , which influence the ability to win mandates . |
| 2 | This research project investigates the suggestion that such spatial rehearsal is primarily motor in nature and that factors which influence the time to rehearse an item will also affect memory span . |
| 3 | Similarly , in their daily practice , as in London , each SCC nominated a ‘ responsible helper ’ who first met the headteacher to discuss those juveniles who were about to leave school , and then interviewed the young people themselves and their parents . |
| 4 | The Court , together with the Emperor , had moved to Saint Cloud for the summer and it was there , at ten o'clock on the morning of 5 July , that Ollivier as head of the Ministry , together with Gramont , the Foreign Minister , met the Emperor to decide on a suitable response to Prussian provocation . |
| 5 | The study 's conviction that creating the panel met the need to dispel finally the belief that auditors were clients of the company , not he shareholders , was still not shared by the finance officers . |
| 6 | Are you going to sacrifice the chance to help Chester 's on the altar of your pride and independence , Virginia ? ’ |
| 7 | Whilst accepting that ‘ inclination ’ was absent I could not agree that blacks lacked the intellect to do well at school and my work was , in a way , intended to lay bare as false such assumptions . |
| 8 | The Brothers demonstrated power axes as well as heavier weapons which the neophytes as yet lacked the physique to wield unaided unless those weapons were equipped with suspensors . |
| 9 | By the end of the emancipation process , the authorities lacked the wherewithal to pay for the transference of land . |
| 10 | Yet had he decided the reverse it was already clear that the League of Nations lacked the will-power to say him nay . |
| 11 | He was the author of some works on gardening , but he lacked the experience to produce a much needed comprehensive practical guide book . |
| 12 | The decision , reached by a 7-2 majority , was seen as having wider implications , since it dismissed the case solely on the grounds that those bringing it lacked the standing to sue [ see below ] . |
| 13 | He lacked the skill to talk without revealing the hashed contents of his meal . |
| 14 | Unfortunately from his viewpoint he lacked the skill to handle the matter and the result was a catastrophic decline in his reputation . |
| 15 | The ANC 's letter described it as inconceivable that the authorities lacked the capacity to stop the factional fighting , in which 1,200 people had died in the past seven months . |
| 16 | That is , it might be that he had fully internalized the requisite mental structure , but for some reason lacked the capacity to use it . |
| 17 | With our extraordinary background , Brian and I lacked the ability to cope with our contemporaries ; as English boys who had barely heard of cricket we were natural targets . |
| 18 | As dean , Smith attempted to revert to the practices and manners of Hall 's great predecessor Cyril Jackson [ q.v. ] , but he lacked the ability to manage those with whom a dean of Christ Church had to deal . |
| 19 | One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing . |
| 20 | The tsar could be cold , however — " he trusted neither himself nor others , and therefore lacked the ability to attach anyone to himself " — and unsympathetic observers were less sure of his temperament than the indulgent Mackenzie Wallace . |
| 21 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 22 | Their tasks included collecting taxes and when necessary producing labourers for public works on dams , canals or bridges ; and enlisting the required numbers of men for the army who lacked the money to buy themselves out of national service . |
| 23 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 24 | In practice , as his experience as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1929 and 1930 proved , it lacked the will to implement any radical reform . |
| 25 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 26 | The implication is that America lost the war because it lacked the will to win . |
| 27 | Despite a wealth of playing experience , Gray lacked the motivation to lift a struggling side . |
| 28 | Word was that Mark lacked the bottle to repel Ambrose and his cohorts in the Caribbean two winters ago : yet that did n't stop him from topping the Australian averages . |
| 29 | It is stressed repeatedly how some sportsmen had the potential or the promise yet lacked the application to develop it . |
| 30 | One by one everyone else 's balloon burst but I lacked the courage to blow too hard . |