Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he planning to restage the battle of Lepanto ? |
| 2 | Will my hon. Friend do everything he possibly can firmly to nail the blame on Bruce Millan for the delay in these funds coming to the coalfield areas ? |
| 3 | And there is the factor that there is a need to diversify the economy of York generally erm and also erm to ensure that the new settlement has an employment component . |
| 4 | Notwithstanding attempts to diversify the production of commodities , Vietnam 's state-owned enterprises faced strong competition from private companies after losing their subsidy and monopoly rights . |
| 5 | It is difficult to categorize the team alongside the previously mentioned sportsmen simply because it was more a comedy outfit than a competitive unit . |
| 6 | Such greed can drive people to sacrifice the well-being of others . |
| 7 | It 's clear now , if it was n't clear then , that they were willing to sacrifice the well-being of schools , of their staff and pupils , for the glory of their leader and for national recognition of the then Councillor , as the most ardent of Thatcher disciples and ensuring for him another step towards that coveted safe Tory seat |
| 8 | In this case it 's a very , very minority group : all you guitarists out there prepared to sacrifice the price of an exceedingly tasty automobile on a place to store your guitar collection . |
| 9 | ‘ What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas [ of particular value to wildlife ] in order to protect the environment . |
| 10 | What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas in order to protect the environment . |
| 11 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 12 | The six month run there will be costly for Jenny , who had to sacrifice the opportunity of a starring role in a film to stay with the play . |
| 13 | It would be in order , for example , as Gandhi shows , to sacrifice the happiness of 49 per cent of mankind in order that the good of 51 per cent might be promoted . |
| 14 | Thus the law continues to sacrifice the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) to the supposed dictates of practicality . |
| 15 | You need a four base width formation to get your rank bonuses , but it is better to sacrifice the bonus in favour of avoiding being dragged into a broader combat . |
| 16 | In this case mobility between firms is constrained because labour may have to sacrifice the growth in earnings they could expect if they remained with their current firm . |
| 17 | This obviously requires the attendance of the witnesses at the trial , and a subpoena may be issued to compel the attendance of those who are within the jurisdiction or in some other part of the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | There are also powers to compel the attendance of witnesses by obtaining a witness order . |
| 19 | A witness summons should not be issued to compel the attendance of a child witness where this would be oppressive or damaging to the child 's welfare to an extent which would outweigh the legitimate interest of any other party to the proceedings ( R v Birmingham CC , ex pP [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 221 ) . |
| 20 | In response , Congress , in the 1974 Act , included provisions requiring the president to report impoundments to the legislature , making it possible for either the House or the Senate to compel the release of impounded funds , and obliging the executive to spend them in accordance with legislative intent . |
| 21 | Helena Kennedy , a barrister , said the law should be changed in rape cases to compel the defence to ‘ reveal their hand ’ , in relation to any attack made on an alleged victim 's character . |
| 22 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 23 | They liked solving them , as he did , for the sufficient reward of achievement ; but also for power , and to compel the respect of their fellow-men , and to earn a name for skill and for courage . |
| 24 | Nizan 's ironic , chiding tone must ultimately be understood as a facet of a global strategy to compel the reader to greater self-awareness . |
| 25 | Given the close relationship between the occupational behaviour of working-class adolescents and their ‘ personality ’ , reformers faced certain difficulties : how to imbue them with approved ethical principles ; how to turn them into efficient workers ; how effectively to reorganize the labour-market for social and economic ends . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister , Aníbal Cavaço Silva , had been under pressure to reorganize the government for some time , and the Cabinet sworn in on Jan. 5 contained five new ministers . |
| 27 | My brief is to reorganize the Project along more efficient and profitable lines . |
| 28 | It is often suggested in the literature that male migration aggravates environmental degradation as women 's coping strategies are modified to accommodate the fall in labour availability in rural households . |
| 29 | This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows : |
| 30 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |