Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should condemn behaviour which is exploitative , violent , and/or involves the violation of one person 's liberty by another . ’ |
| 2 | Apart from the fact that this ignores the possibility that shareholders may have other objectives in investing ( such as opposing investment in countries practising apartheid , or opposing the manufacture of armaments or cigarettes , etc. ) the profit-maximization norm does not provide a hard guideline as to how directors should exercise their discretion . |
| 3 | The Remmelink Commission , set up in January 1990 , published its conclusions on Sept. 10 , 1991 , calculating that in the Netherlands there were annually some 2,700 cases of euthanasia or assisting the death of patients , and some 1,000 cases of intervention to terminate the life of patients unable to express their wishes . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 5 | Whether the particular objective is to provide school leavers with better general training for the labour market or to stimulate the development of more portable skills , it is hoped that government training initiatives , such as the Youth Training Scheme , will provide a catalyst for change . |
| 6 | Where the rate of technical advance , or the rate of depletion , is endogenous , then it may be possible permanently to raise or lower the rate of growth through tax or other measures . |
| 7 | In the region of sub-Sahara Africa , the once general custom of observing a long post-partum abstinence ( often as long as three or four years ) was based on recognition of the chain linking the sickness or death of an infant or young child to the new pregnancy that disturbed or interrupted the breastfeeding of the suckling child . |
| 8 | Key , or strategic , decisions set or change the direction of an organisation . |
| 9 | The sender has the right to stop the goods in transit or change the place of delivery . |
| 10 | But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle . |
| 11 | However , the NEC emphasized that such arrangements would not be allowed to " delay or obstruct the process of orderly transition to majority rule " . |
| 12 | Underestimating the speed of events or overestimating the efficiency of personnel are factors which lead to slippage in any work programme and their early detection is essential to effective progress monitoring . |
| 13 | The common aim is to found a Second Republic and to reduce or eliminate the power of the political cliques who have held sway since the fall of fascism . |
| 14 | Authorities are expected to reduce or eliminate the risk of industrial accidents by requiring industrial plants to adopt specific pollution control equipment and practices . |
| 15 | And , fourthly , because of these other limitations local authorities , especially those in the inner cities , usually end up trying to attract or influence the behaviour of a pool of small firms , which they often justify by stating that small firms are the key to local regeneration . |
| 16 | The person who wrote the computer program used to assist in the creation of the types of works described above has no rights in the work because , although the programmer may control or influence the format of the finished work , he has no control or influence on the content . |
| 17 | A vital part of family welfare involves help with housing by social workers taking a client 's part in helping them get an application for council housing considered or encouraging the formation of community housing associations . |
| 18 | Most of these schemes are designed to improve employee motivation at the same time , either through relating pay to profits or encouraging the acquisition of shares by employees . |
| 19 | In such a situation , the captain seldom issues or signs the bill of lading . |
| 20 | One way of intervening here is to question or subvert the authority of those institutions themselves ; and the most obvious target is the dictionary . |
| 21 | It must surely be apparent that , with death visiting almost every family with such regularity , any attempt to mask or evade the reality of death could not have succeeded , and would probably have made the situation worse . |
| 22 | The differential information limits the ability of legislators or voters to take decisions or to monitor the performance of government agencies . |
| 23 | They were also closely linked , for provoking or allowing the return of Republican " chaos " and , therefore , the disintegration of the nation , was the ultimate , awful responsibility to be pondered by putative dissenters in the Francoist camp . |
| 24 | ( The intolerable thick end of the wedge , it was wildly imagined , might prevent the owner of Thomas Gainsborough 's Blue Boy sending it abroad , or mean the owner of a line of fine trees being stopped from felling them . |
| 25 | Another tradition , focusing on psychosocial factors , typically de-emphasises or neglects the role of these established risk factors . |
| 26 | Pointing to the lack of decent recreational facilities m the slums , Butterworth also believed that ‘ it is pointless to denounce street evils , gang hooliganism or to mourn the absence of team spirit in poorer areas … |
| 27 | Despite the undeniable interest and importance of semantic and statistical studies of language , they appear to have no direct relevance to the problem of determining or characterising the set of grammatical utterances . |
| 28 | He ruled that placing advertising inserts in Mail Newspapers 's publications without the company 's authority or consent ‘ constitutes or involves the making of a misrepresentation ’ . |
| 29 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 30 | It has been proposed that DNA supercoiling would act to change the DNA structure at the promoter facilitating or inhibiting the formation of a stable RNA polymerase-promoter complex , in which the initiation region is melted , and that can proceed to the promoter clearance step ( 25 ) . |