Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The estimated time for completion seems to extend each time Pool runs the predictor . |
| 2 | They challenge two assumptions commonly made , either implicitly or explicitly , in conventional organisation theory : ( a ) that an institution adopts that form of organisation which best fits its technology , environment , and other contingent factors , the ‘ best fit ’ being in terms of that organisation structure most suited to co-ordinating the tasks performed by members of that institution ; ( b ) that members of the institution have entered freely into a contract with that institution to provide a service to that institution in return for reward , and that they accept as legitimate both the institutional goals and the means of co-ordination used to achieve those goals ( rational/legal authority ) . |
| 3 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 4 | And that is quite simply that I of course need to read all of these documents . |
| 5 | The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make . |
| 6 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 7 | Trade union involvement can of course help to alleviate some of the difficulties suggested above . |
| 8 | Today , of course , the importance of political parties makes it difficult for members of Parliament to claim to represent all their constituents ; but equally makes it difficult for them to assume delegate roles . |
| 9 | The indirect mechanism of action proposed to explain such an effect implicates the sequestration of bile acids or other acidic lipids , such as fatty acids . |
| 10 | This line of reasoning appeared to excite more criticism abroad than it did in France . |
| 11 | The use of quantification in studies of crime tends to obscure this diversity . |
| 12 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 13 | All later forms of religion have to handle this problem , and do so even though they use different means . |
| 14 | The amount of work required to obtain this information may be inferred from knowing that this project will run for 9 years and cost 100 million US dollars . |
| 15 | Negative perceptions of wilderness helped to reinforce this process of agricultural expansion by , in effect , making a virtue out of necessity — by turning cultivation and agriculture into a form of semi-religious crusade ( Thomas , 1983 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Luckily , many scientists have started to make the leaps of imagination required to answer these questions . |
| 17 | But the rate of loss of forest threatens to outstrip any of this basic work , and practical plans are hampered by the fact that until recently the birds have simply not been very well studied : not much is known about them . |
| 18 | 5 Find the least area of cardboard needed to make this box of soap powder . |
| 19 | The situation in the extra-mural areas is much less clear-cut , but the recovery of pottery appears to indicate some level of continued activity . |
| 20 | The extent to which the history of science has been shaped by modern concerns is evident from the fact that only in recent years has the origin of ecology begun to attract much attention . |
| 21 | Such a theory would seem to support the notion of two distinct orientations of dramatic playing and performing , but Stanislavsky 's theory of acting seems to embrace both modes , leading us to consider the model as dialectic , each mode containing the seed of its opposite . |
| 22 | This account of knowledge seems to disqualify much that we might ordinarily count as such . |
| 23 | We measured circulating gastrin to determine the concentrations of gastrin required to produce half maximal acid secretion . |
| 24 | The issue of naturalization seemed to perplex some Libyans ; this was clear in their discussions at the Kufra Assembly and at the National Assembly which followed it . |
| 25 | But a complete justification of authority has to do more than to provide valid reasons for its acceptance . |
| 26 | Graph search terminology allows us to give a breakdown of the minimum requirements of the sort of mechanism required to search this space , regardless of ( i ) how information about valid paths is retrieved , ( ii ) how the search space is constructed and stored , and ( iii ) the specific strategies used for searching that space . |
| 27 | The task of condensing five thousand years of glass-making appears to have little deterred the contributors of this latest offering from the British Museum . |
| 28 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 29 | We have already suggested that theories of motivation seem to indicate that money is only one of many factors that have a bearing upon motivation and morale . |
| 30 | Wouters ' more recent writings on the process of informalisation begin to plug another gap in his early conceptualisation by focusing on the changing balance of power between the sexes . |