Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the following sequence is carried out with sensitivity , not only will it relieve tension but it will also effectively stimulate clarity of thought . |
| 2 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 3 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 4 | He did apparently display signs of hypochondria , however — Herbert Read remembered how he was " addicted to pills and potions " and , according to another friend , he kept a variety of pills in his lower waistcoat pocket — but hypochondria , if such it was , was only one aspect of a larger nervous disposition . |
| 5 | Whether or not humans with a thrifty genotype did in the past ( or continue to ) better survive periods of famine has not been directly proved . |
| 6 | To ensure the rights laid down in or following from this treaty , they shall especially guarantee freedom of contract , freedom to exercise a trade , freedom of establishment and occupation , and freedom of movement of Germans in the entire currency area , freedom to form associations to safeguard and enhance working and economic conditions and … ownership of land and means of production by private investors … |
| 7 | For this would obviously ensure pride of place for holist explanations . |
| 8 | Through the judicious mix of flexible computerized production technologies , upskilling and the subcontracting of standardized component manufacture , innovating companies can better balance economies of scale and economies of scope in novel organizational configurations . |
| 9 | The field officer will only discover examples of pollution himself , however , when he engages in proactive enforcement , through regular surveillance by sampling or inspection or , if his suspicions are aroused , through spot checks . |
| 10 | But the offspring will only favour acts of altruism where the benefit exceeds the cost discounted by the figure we agreed . |
| 11 | It was too early in the negotiating round at the time of writing to be confident about trends for the coming year , although most expectations for the 1–10MW bracket are that the new deals will merely take account of inflation . |
| 12 | Do all have freedom of conscience except the King ? " |
| 13 | But of course grammatical modification can not account for the particulars of meaning which are signalled on particular occasions , Grammar can only denote degrees of generality . |
| 14 | And in any case the dominating class will come to be internally differentiated , and will necessarily exhibit features of class stratification . |
| 15 | This abandonment of a Tyneside base by ship owning interests would not necessarily reduce recruitment of merchant seamen from the Tyne . |
| 16 | The organiser , too , is a woman … though she 'd rather give pride of place at the air display to another female — Sally B , a B-17 bomber , star of the film Memphis Belle . |
| 17 | As shown in Figure 5 , treatment with cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg for eight days ) did not affect synthesis of prostaglandin E2 , 6k prostaglandin F1a , and thromboxane B2 by pancreatic tissue ex vivo . |
| 18 | This type of catalyst does not affect oxides of nitrogen . |
| 19 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 20 | Meta-analysis increases the statistical power of tests but does not eliminate causes of bias and difficulties in interpreting the results . |
| 21 | Why not introduce retainers of say , £8,000 for three months of the year , asks Farr-Jones . |
| 22 | ‘ In fact , children do not need systems of punishment and reward to keep them in line , but they do need discipline . |
| 23 | ACCORDING to Max Weber 's ‘ model ’ ‘ charismatic leadership ’ could not survive lack of success . |
| 24 | But the enhanced response does not survive washout of phorbol ester , and occlusion experiments indicate that LTP and phorbol ester-induced potentiation use different mechanisms . |
| 25 | The career of a full-time vegetarian forager , always on the move in search of food , can not include patterns of child-care which make such demands on the mother and which put the neonate in such a dependent state . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it must be also stated that the ratios are probably still underestimates because identity codes did not include date of birth and , thus , the double counting procedure may have eliminated persons who should have been included . |
| 27 | The above fee illustration does not include costs of work required by your lawyers or KPMG 's other services such as tax advice ( particularly with the purchase of minorities and installation of the share option scheme ) or indeed any work your auditors are requested to conduct by the prospective purchaser . |
| 28 | Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery . |
| 29 | But this , of course , does not yield explanations of class strategies , and thus of the class struggle , which are in line with Poulantzas ' theoretical principles . |
| 30 | RAPE VICTIMS Newspapers should not identify victims of rape , or publish material likely to contribute to such identification . |