Example sentences of "[noun] to [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 2 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 3 | And she made clear only last week the depth of her opposition to giving the European Parliament more power . |
| 4 | While the ecclesiastical commission was deliberating , the government put its mind to resolving the complex set of problems which had arisen in the universities . |
| 5 | I shall give some space in this chapter to considering the single threads , the first strands , how they are chosen and set into place . |
| 6 | Arafat committed the PLO to supporting the Iraqi invasion of Aug. 2 , 1990 , despite objections from Egypt that this would undermine the PLO 's long-standing opposition to the acquisition of territories by force , and would also rule out any immediate prospect of resuming the US-PLO dialogue [ see also p. 37637 ] . |
| 7 | There is a useful analogy here with Monte Carlo significance testing which could be used to add a further degree of inferential screening to assessing the descriptive significance of the uncertainty bands in the context of a particular application . |
| 8 | Your generation will be the key to shaping the new Europe and seizing the new opportunities that could not be imagined during the Cold War . |
| 9 | Training is also the key to unlocking the vast , untapped potential of individual women and men . |
| 10 | Slavery is the key to unlocking the third chamber of Kane 's theorem about why blacks excel in sport : ‘ Of all the physical and psychological theories about the American black 's excellence in sport , none has proved more controversial than one of the least discussed : that slavery weeded out the weak ’ ( Kane , 1971 , p.80 ) . |
| 11 | The key to enjoying the martial arts is perseverance . |
| 12 | The sound knowledge of local living costs obtained from BI/COL will help provide the key to achieving the right renumeration package . |
| 13 | The key to selecting the appropriate assets is as follows : ( 1 ) First , understand what the business is that the purchaser wishes to buy . |
| 14 | The key to understanding the religious function of these images is found in the gun motif . |
| 15 | This time the key to understanding the changing pattern is the starkly contrasting geographies of decline and of growth . |
| 16 | This tension between change and continuity is the key to understanding the inner meaning as opposed to the outward form of working-class sport . |
| 17 | And this , as we now proceed to discuss , is the crucial interaction which we see as the key to understanding the penal crisis and responses to it . |
| 18 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 19 | However , it is this latter point that holds the key to understanding the different views , and , although a full analysis is beyond the scope of this book , it is worth exploring briefly . |
| 20 | The software is the key to finding the right computer these days . |
| 21 | The way in which culture is itself understood provides the key to grasping the extraordinary convergence between left and right , antiracist and avowedly racist over precisely what race and racism add up to . |
| 22 | An alternative to covering the entire area with one type of flooring is to choose a smooth flooring ( such as wood , PVC-coated cork , vinyl or linoleum ) for the dining area and carpet for the living area . |
| 23 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 24 | Now , no one could argue that all the problems of financial management — particularly as an aid to achieving the maximum VFM from limited resources — have been overcome in the NHS . |
| 25 | It was thus permissible , as an aid to identifying the legislative intention behind s 72(4) , to consider the anomalies that the absence of any limitation to its scope would produce , the antecedent legislation and the manner in which other types of small distributions were dealt within CGTA 1979 . |
| 26 | It commits the industry to applying the same ban on billboard advertising overlooking playgrounds as already applies to billboard advertising close to schools . |
| 27 | Moreover , since the return to holding the natural resource is the increase in its relative price , it depends crucially on the way in which expectations are formed . |
| 28 | A return to adjusting the in-phase component will now permit a better balance still to be achieved , especially if the sensitivity of the detector can be increased . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The administration prefers changing the EITC to increasing the minimum wage , which it fears would increase unemployment and inflation . |