Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission actively encourages private parties to seek remedies before the national courts and in a recent case the European Court held that the Commission had a duty to assist national courts by making confidential Community documents and witnesses available in national proceedings . |
| 2 | I would suggest that at least three months separates each flock to obtain good continuity . |
| 3 | Returning to the visual system , it is known that simultaneous destruction of both visual cortex and superior colliculus produces complete insensitivity to brief light flashes in monkeys whereas destruction of either structure in isolation has no effect ( Mohler and Wurtz 1977 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Tomkins encourages each company to set up its own retirement benefits plan , with at least one trustee unrelated to Tomkins . |
| 5 | In seeking to develop managers he encourages each individual to develop a personal philosophy of management which can be implemented practically on a minute-by-minute basis each day of the working week . |
| 6 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 7 | The university experience , however , is more than merely attending lectures and seminars ; it allows and encourages each student to make contacts and gain experience which will be useful in later life ; it teaches participants to think logically , to approach problems with an open and enquiring mind , to form lasting friendships and to organize , perhaps for the first time , their own financial , academic and social affairs . |
| 8 | As the discussion of power in Chapter 2 showed , pluralist approaches have explicitly rejected the notion that one can derive a causal explanation of policy outcomes based upon the congruence of the policy outcome with the interests of a particular group or class — that the congruence between the policy outcome and the interests of a group offers strong evidence to support ascribing power to the group . |
| 9 | The encroachment of urban sprawl on the countryside may be cause for regret , but we are a nation of gardeners , and the English passion for gardening goes some way to ameliorate the impact of an increasing population on a small crowded island . |
| 10 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 11 | Indeed it is his support for Mosley , expressed on many occasions , which goes some way to account for the continuing neglect of his work by much of the literary establishment . |
| 12 | The model also goes some way to clarify the problem of the ‘ humanities ’ . |
| 13 | Not in a hundred per cent of the cases , er and we do have undesirables at the John Radcliffe , er but there has n't been an incident such as this er I think that goes some way to prove that we do have a reasonably tight security service , and we , we work to any way that we can to keep it as secure as possible . |
| 14 | The link between the notion of passive femininity and dominant discourses of biology and the natural world encourages some psychologists to take this methodological gendering further and use quasi-biological or anthropological observational procedures to investigate women . |
| 15 | It 's an ‘ intelligent ’ harmoniser and plays this way to follow the commonest chord sequences without any programming . |
| 16 | The ideal environment has come to be seen as one which offers continual opportunities to maximise learning , and succeeds in engaging the attention and motivation of the individual for as near to 100 per cent of his/her time as possible . |
| 17 | And although the er , the causal relationship is not completely established , it is a very helpful way of remembering that one of the principle distinguishing features of this organism which separates it from other members of the genus staphylococcus it pr it produces this enzyme to coagulate things on and the effects of this enzyme are illustrated here as against the control preparation , you see a clot form due to the action of this enzyme on clotting practice which has been put into this test tube serum . |
| 18 | Normal science involves detailed attempts to articulate a paradigm with the aim of improving the match between it and nature . |
| 19 | In the second place , it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor . |
| 20 | When the miller unleashes this stallion to plunge straight off after the wild mares in the fen ( 4057 – 66 ) he unwittingly unleashes the whole course of events that will lead to the " swyvinges " in his family 's bedchamber that night . |
| 21 | Woman-centred feminism 's interest in female-identified investigators and subjects , and psychology 's centring on method , encourages woman-centred psychology to reproduce aspects of traditional methods without discussing their gender biases . |
| 22 | It encourages woman-centred psychologists to ignore the wider discursive structuring of methodology , and to assume that revaluing a traditionally female-identified method positively guarantees its feminism . |
| 23 | The Government also wants private firms to curtail wage rises , currently running at around six per cent . |
| 24 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 25 | We are the only dinner guests this Friday evening , so the bespectacled Mr Moore has ample opportunity to demonstrate his wide-ranging talents . |
| 26 | According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . " |
| 27 | It runs off a normal car battery and has ample power to drive the punt at a greater rate of knots than you are likely to need , unless you are going to troll for pike ; and then you would be better using a boat rather than a punt . |
| 28 | THE Blind Centre for Northern Ireland urgently needs sighted volunteers to help with services it provides . |
| 29 | Walton stresses that there is no simple concept or criterion of the child 's best interests which can be applied in a crude rule-of-thumb way , and no group or individual which has sole authority to assume that generally it has the best conception of the child 's interests . |
| 30 | As Lester Korn — never at a loss for a quote — told Fortune , ‘ Business has become too complicated , and the stakes have become too high , for a board chairman who needs executive talent to rely on his friends or his friends ’ recommendations . |