Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These points will , I hope , give you some guidelines to judging the temperament of a strange horse , whether you are looking for a suitable horse to buy , or deciding which way to handle a particular animal . |
| 2 | The greater the thought and attention given by both parties to developing the completion account rules , the less likely that the parties will be unable to agree the actual completion accounts . |
| 3 | Kawawa 's intervention succeeded in rallying most backbenchers to supporting the measure , and the Bill was passed . |
| 4 | Even so there have been no easy solutions to monitoring the country 's public expenditure . |
| 5 | The agreement , reached at an informal conference in Amsterdam , was described by the EC Environment Commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , as a " turning point in environment policy , a shift from command-and-control methods to taking the environment into the market place " . |
| 6 | The measures advanced in the research project to address these problems are very diverse , with treatments ranging from re-striping the parking areas to rebuilding the street . |
| 7 | Clearly there are few barriers to filling the site 's personal computer with survey data , but what can be done with it ? |
| 8 | Thirdly , medical advisers tend to be pragmatic and able to address the key consideration in developing health service research , which is whether or not organisational factors pose immutable barriers to implementing the research findings . |
| 9 | Although they favour differing explanations , the feminist and the sexist share a belief that linguistic behaviour is one of the keys to understanding the nature and status of women . |
| 10 | We hope to say enough about the UK 's international position to show that international competition , and the changing commodity composition of world trade , are the keys to understanding the changing composition and size of the UK economy . |
| 11 | So they actually took a very active role against it , and had been the allies of people like the National Consumers ' League on other issues , but on this one they really differed , and were one of the major blocks to passing the legislation . |
| 12 | The full implications of these remarkable properties are only now being exploited , in applications ranging from cooling semiconductor chips to exploiting the atmosphere of Venus . |
| 13 | And they devoted columns to discussing the possible effects of our exclusive pictures on the future of the royal family . |
| 14 | If you were promoted from general secretarial duties to organizing the flow of work through the typing pool you can assume you ‘ have qualities of leadership and organizational skills ’ . |
| 15 | Separating them out , however , signals the priority given by most parents to managing the economic dependency of living on state benefits as independently as possible . |
| 16 | Even more important was the fact that people had devoted their lives to establishing the identity of such creatures ; that for someone the original distinction between Porcellio and Armadillidium had been a matter of life-consuming importance . |
| 17 | Let us give special thought today to those people who have devoted their lives to helping the poor and needy in impoverished parts of the world . |
| 18 | This feature is , of course , simple guide for less experienced pilots to finding the right half-mill chart for the journey . |
| 19 | However , public opposition from the Roman Catholic Church in particular and objections from Austrian Airlines to transporting the refugees led the government to announce in early December that it would attempt to find jobs for the Romanians rather than deport them . |
| 20 | As a result , we do not share the optimism expressed in the Policy Issues Paper that the policies proposed in MPG6 to encourage greater efficiency , increased recycling , use of waste , and a shift in the pattern of supply , will achieve those goals in sufficient degree to ‘ bear down on demand and make important contributions to minimising the extent of extraction needed to provide a steady and adequate supply of aggregates for the construction industry ’ ( PIP , 6.23 ) . |
| 21 | As a result , we do not share the optimism expressed in the Policy Issues Paper that the policies proposed in MPG6 to encourage greater efficiency , increased recycling , use of waste , and a shift in the pattern of supply , will achieve those goals in sufficient degree to ‘ bear down on demand and make important contributions to minimising the extent of extraction needed to provide a steady and adequate supply of aggregates for the construction industry ’ ( PIP , 6.23 ) . |
| 22 | I am judging by the quality of the management , the leadership and the fact that Strathtay employees — the Hon. Gentleman knows this because it came out in Committee — are having funds deducted from their pay every week to make their contributions to buying the shares . |
| 23 | The methods and their paraphernalia are all ‘ stageprops ’ , aids to contacting the same force and channelling the mind in that direction . |
| 24 | The still influential contribution of Köhler and the other Gestalt psychologists to elucidating the rules underlying pattern perception is a major example . |
| 25 | There are , of course , certain alternatives to using the law . |
| 26 | Planners will have to consider alternatives to accommodating the needs of those living in more rural areas . |
| 27 | If they fear a fall in prices , selling a future or acquiring a put option are alternatives to selling the underlying securities . |
| 28 | These are ultralight alternatives to plundering the real reef , and come from the Philippines . |
| 29 | Physicians were obliged to inform abortion patients about foetal development and the alternatives to terminating the pregnancy . |
| 30 | The pool of workers in the sector is assumed fixed at P. This might be because the employment contract is a repeated game , so that workers remain in the sector in anticipation of future employment , or it could be because there are high costs to leaving the sector . |