Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not surprising as the algorithm to assign risk is weighted in favour of such cases . |
| 2 | There was a minute cabin on the barge , no more than a place for the bargee to take shelter . |
| 3 | He put a thousand-franc note on his bedside table and told the porter to let Modigliani in whenever he wanted . |
| 4 | Mr. Bailey requested the porter to call Mr. George Burnham to attend for him and so he did , but not until the child was born . |
| 5 | However , virtually without exception during the trial , the judge prevented ( on grounds of irrelevance to the " common criminal charges " in the indictment ) the efforts by the defence to introduce evidence that Noriega was supported by and worked closely with US military and intelligence services . |
| 6 | Moreover , it would have undermined the important principle of consistency in the response to like cases which should underpin any punishment regime . |
| 7 | The response to prey size has been compared for a set of four barn owl pellet samples from England and South Africa ( Fig. 2.1 ) . |
| 8 | The major determinant of the response to soil erosion is the degree of political power of the class(es) or group(s) involved . |
| 9 | Their problem seems to be not one of the inability to choose goals or to form strategies for achieving them , but an incorrigible propensity to choose the wrong ones and an awesome efficiency in achieving them unless adults intervene . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , a high level of absenteeism may be a sign of low morale ; high staff turnover and the inability to retain staff may be a sign of low morale ( witness the number of teachers that leave the profession every year ) ; industrial action or strikes may be an indication that morale and motivation are low . |
| 11 | The multiplicity of levels , the over-elaboration of consultative machinery , the inability to get decision-making completed nearer the point of delivery of services and what some describe as unacceptably wasteful use of manpower resources were recurrent themes in most of the areas where we worked . |
| 12 | Golding 's account of Lok 's development links the analytic component of simile to thought and seems to suggest that metaphor may be the result of inadequate vocabulary , limited knowledge or the inability to separate entities and perceive them discretely . |
| 13 | As I pointed out in the original review , this causes a few problems like the inability to switch players . |
| 14 | Typical examples of this are the inability to have biosensors that can operate effectively for any length of time in blood and the need for anticoagulants during extracorporeal procedures such as dialysis and heart-lung bypass operations . |
| 15 | Nicholas 's lack of success in front of goal , though , underlines Aberdeen 's Achilles ' heel — the inability to make pressure tell . |
| 16 | Following the inability to trace records of certain interviews and the fact that other important papers were not presented at previous hearings of this matter , the fire in the building where the former South Midland Area 's archives were temporarily housed pending re-organisation was particularly unfortunate and can only be thought of as an unhappy coincidence . |
| 17 | Rattling breathing with the inability to raise phlegm |
| 18 | It lacks the vitality to throw these conditions off ; it does not have the expulsive power of Ipecacuanha and the chest steadily fills up with mucus ; rattling breathing with the inability to raise phlegm . |
| 19 | ‘ For an actor of his calibre , ’ recalls Gerald Thomas , ‘ and he was of a very high calibre indeed , he had the inability to play dialogue at the same time as he was handling props . |
| 20 | The inability to protect children from such abuse has been the subject of a succession of inquiry reports , in which the main reason given for this failure has been some failing in procedure such as the lack of communication among the agencies involved . |
| 21 | Chart 15 , from Karen Wruck at the Harvard Business School , shows part of the answer why : in a highly leveraged firm , default is triggered by the inability to meet payments to claimants accounting for a much larger proportion of the firm 's value than in a firm with more equity ; and the loss to creditors of failing to agree on new terms is thus potentially bigger . |
| 22 | This also examined children 's reactions to a variety of inadequate messages , and proposed a metacognitive explanation of the inability to recognize message defects ( see also Shatz , 1978 ; Markman , 1981 ; Lloyd and Beveridge , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Eight of the bombers broke through the defences to launch torpedoes at the ‘ Ark ’ and at the battlecruiser ‘ Renown ’ , but without obtaining hits . |
| 24 | We 'll go to the park to see Mr Frost , she says . |
| 25 | The addition to total revenue resulting from the employment of one extra worker is called the marginal revenue product of labour ( MRPL ) . |
| 26 | This is equal to the marginal physical product of labour ( MPPL ) , which is the addition to the firm 's output resulting from the employment of one extra worker , multiplied by marginal revenue ( MR ) , which is the addition to total revenue from selling one extra unit of output . |
| 27 | There should be the opportunity to earn release by acquiring marks by diligence . |
| 28 | On appeal against conviction , on the ground that the services provided by the appellant were not services within an ‘ office or employment , ’ in respect of which the opportunity to earn remuneration had been obtained , within the meaning of section 16(2) ( c ) of the Act : — |
| 29 | After a trial lasting five days he was eventually convicted , under count 1 , of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , contrary to section 16(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , in that he dishonestly obtained for himself the opportunity to earn remuneration in an office or employment as an accountant to a man called Burt , by falsely representing that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and held qualifications from the Institute of Marketing . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) The cases in which a pecuniary advantage within the meaning of this section is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — … ( c ) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment … |