Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 He 's on to the ball before anyone else , but he conserves the energy of his horses . ’
2 Feminist methods frequently situate themselves socially and historically in ways which distinguish the concept of the subject they work with from the one which underpins qualitative psychological methods , and which give these methods a different significance .
3 14.7.2 Distinguish the tort of negligence
4 ‘ Stylistics ’ thus becomes an essentially comparative study of the patterns of preference shown by the writer in his selection from the linguistic resources available to him , a question of the relative frequencies of choice which distinguish the language of his text from that of others ; it is an ‘ application rather than an extension of linguistics ’ ( p.217 ) .
5 Know and understand some practices and customs that distinguish the lifestyle of two religious/cultural groups and evaluate one of them
6 The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly .
7 Otherwise it is n-ary , with the value of ‘ n ’ equalling the number of entities .
8 A massive 1000 t steel rotor with 10 m long arms could be spun so that the tips moved at 1000 m s -1 , equalling the speed of sound in steel .
9 Was he planning to restage the battle of Lepanto ?
10 Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook .
11 The resulting poverty of the peasantry , who must find work in two different sectors to survive , limits their spending power and therefore discourages the purchase of consumer goods .
12 Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion .
13 Auerbach 's work not only discourages the enumeration of biographical detail , the reading of signs of dress , the interpretation of expression in relation to known biographical data of the portrait subject .
14 Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions .
15 Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions .
16 The Exchange discourages the use of equity shares with no or restricted voting rights , so this can not normally be used as a device to retain control amongst a few shareholders with voting rights .
17 Existing structure plan in short is erm set out in such a way that it pos positively discourages the accommodation of inward investment on a large scale .
18 They influence the education of children in enormously important ways , not just in terms of how many exams they pass , what results they get at O level or C S E , but on important issues such as education for democracy , the kind of climate that schools create for young people is very important in the way they see society and they see their role in it .
19 However , the free flow of funds between national and international money markets ensures that key domestic interest rates influence the cost of funds .
20 Many factors influence the profitability of different sources of energy .
21 What factors influence the type of crater and associated features formed by an impact ?
22 There is , however , an alternative approach based on the development of a new understanding of law , which no longer assumes that the legal system is uniform but realises that law is linked into complex processes of communication between and within different sub-systems of society , which in turn form and influence the substance of a particular segment of law .
23 Discuss the important standards which influence the rest of the computer industry .
24 Factors which influence the stability of the combination include the softness of the car and the trailer 's suspension , plus the balance of the trailer .
25 We possess no worked example to illustrate how genes control behaviour ; all we can say is that , in abstract terms , proteins influence the development of neurons , and that genes must by this means influence the development of the nervous system .
26 Furthermore , amongst those who influence the development of the law , it is still far from accepted that the overriding objective of the law of rape and allied offences should be the protection of sexual choice , that is to say , the protection of a woman 's right to choose , whether , when and with whom to have sexual intercourse .
27 If a manager joins a sales team from another department where he or she enjoyed a good reputation , this v–ill go before them and influence the attitude of the team .
28 We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse .
29 But the identity which a region gives — through collective institutions such as its legal , educational and political systems — can not be provided by individuals alone , through the meanings which they attribute to their lifeworlds : ‘ In this respect the regions contain an explicit collective dimension which has relative independence , being continually reproduced by institutionally embedded power relations that influence the socialization of individuals ’ ( p. 139 ) .
30 These conformations influence the position of the phosphate group with respect to the grooves of the double helix .
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