Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , it is these measurable indicators which distinguish the service from many other education business strategies .
2 Know and understand some practices and customs that distinguish the lifestyle of two religious/cultural groups and evaluate one of them
3 Auerbach 's work not only discourages the enumeration of biographical detail , the reading of signs of dress , the interpretation of expression in relation to known biographical data of the portrait subject .
4 Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions .
5 Existing structure plan in short is erm set out in such a way that it pos positively discourages the accommodation of inward investment on a large scale .
6 Many factors influence the profitability of different sources of energy .
7 Within our society are groups which are called opinion formers because they influence the opinions of many other people .
8 Variations in climate and soil fertility influence the level of agricultural output and the availability of cash crops , e.g. coffee , for export .
9 There are three key factors that influence the persistence of traditional budgeting processes .
10 An understanding of the factors that influence the character of social policy must rest upon several foundations .
11 All these issues influence the nature of social research .
12 Previously the rate support grant had been distributed to authorities on the basis of a complex formula which took account of a number of factors , including levels of local prosperity , which influence the need for local services .
13 Neither at Syracuse nor at Cyrene did the native element , which consisted partly of nomads ( JRS , 1978 , p. 224 ) , much influence the quality of Greek culture , except that the need to impress the Libyan locals may have had something to do with the long survival of the Battiad kingship .
14 Clearly these sets of circumstances influence the pragmatics of these statements , in ways that we have to unravel by close analysis .
15 This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion .
16 Nevertheless , it is possible to classify plants in the field by taking leaf samples and performing appropriate tests ( see Dirzo & Harper , 1982a ) and to categorize the plants into four groups Ac Li , Ac li , ac Li , ac li .
17 Agboyibo obtained a meeting with Eyadema on March 17 , and the following day Eyadema met the leaders of all 10 groupings .
18 On Jan. 27 Goulding met the leaders of Serbian communities in Croatia , in an attempt to persuade them to accept UN peacekeepers in their areas .
19 Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE.
20 Chuck Sloat examines the role of the Air Transport Auxiliary , and in particular James McGuinness , when they met the call in 1942 to move Spitfires to the aid of the Island .
21 We met the equivalent of this knife-edge , you will remember , in the story of the Grudgers and Cheats in Chapter 10 .
22 And y that was the year I met d th I met the wife in that In June of that year .
23 The King was in no position to make such a decision and , in any case , Baldwin had already decided to meet Parliament when he met the King on 10 December , and so the King did not even have to persuade him to adopt what he believed to be the correct course .
24 To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he last met the chairman of British Coal to discuss redundancy payments for mineworkers .
25 To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he last met the chairman of Nuclear Electric to discuss the future of the nuclear generating industry .
26 Review of neurology department registries found 129 outpatient records ; 24 met the criteria for probable Alzheimer 's disease and 20 of these noted admission(s) to psychiatric hospital .
27 Our aim was to determine whether our authors met the criteria for any of these forms of psychosis and , if so , to ascertain in each case which ‘ diagnosis ’ provided the best description .
28 That evening , they met the men at eight o'clock , all parties quite well oiled from the off .
29 When I met the Association of British Insurers about six months ago , it was reluctant to take a collective view , but when I met it about two months ago , its views had changed considerably , because the claims paid by insurers rose by 46 per cent .
30 So they also met the specifications for aerobatic kites .
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