Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Previous in vitro attempts to investigate the role of thymic stromal cells in T-cell development have been hampered by the limited ability of monolayer cultures to support a full programme of T-cell maturation and by the difficulty of obtaining cultures of thymic epithelial cells that maintain their in vivo phenotype .
2 The question being asked was ‘ Could the old long-stay patients be moved to smaller community hospitals/nursing homes to enable the closure of the asylums ’ The answer was still being sought in 1983 , when the Department of Health and Social Security ( DHSS ) launched a programme of pilot Care in the Community projects to follow its earlier guidance .
3 To develop this theme , two distinct phases of a study into the information support needs of an organisation are examined here , the first making extensive use of the SSM to obtain an overview of these needs and produce a high-level user requirement for computer support , and the second applying standard O&M techniques to progress the study to an acceptable conclusion .
4 And I think erm the article itself erm s says in , in the , the first part it , it seems to be written in a very sort of erm very pro-peasant style , it 's like a justification of things that are happening , he s says that the reasons for the , the peasant movement were the exact opposite of what the gentry in Hankow and Changchun were saying erm that the , that the Party , that the revolutionary authorities had , had taken wrong measures because they thought that the reasons for these movements were , were otherwise and these we they were considered detrimental so they had to change these , these er original wrong meas measures to benefit the future of the revolution .
5 Well I do n't know because years ago they trained er chaps to do the spooling and they were goo they were managing fine
6 I wish him well in his er efforts to become a candidate in the forthcoming European elections .
7 The government feels it can rely on er auditors to protect the interests of share holders and the creditors and the other stake holders but I have to tell the minister that that reliance which is now er strengthened by the regulations b by the er the order today has always proved er inadequate in the er in in the past er because poor auditing practices always get covered up , there 's no way for anybody to know how bad or how good er the audit is as long as a company er survives and we have n't developed in this country , the proper institutional framework to regulate auditors er effectively and to actually make them er er accountable .
8 It may be the pro prospective candidate or panel name to go forward on a prospective candidate or something like that er and then there 'd be er a talk by , by the chairman about the finances or what we ought to do er to organize er events to improve the finances .
9 Lewis , meanwhile , intends to turn up at each of Bowe 's fights to shame the IBF and WBA champion into fighting him .
10 ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and
11 However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 .
12 This weekend 's show looks at man 's attempts to predict the weather .
13 They preferred undisguised military occupation to self-administration and refused to co-operate with Israel 's attempts to create an accommodationist Palestinian leadership in the territories .
14 Grilly 's attempts to adjudicate the question had failed , and Pierre Flote was deputed to bring the affair to the cognizance of the court of France .
15 I welcome Margaret Woddis ' and Celia Brackenridge 's attempts to push an analysis of the relationship between gender and physical culture further than I was able in ‘ Work Your Body ! ’
16 USL brought suit against the pair because of BSDI 's attempts to commercialise an Intel Corp 80386 operating system called BSD/386 based on the university 's Network Release 2 which USL claims infringes on its code .
17 In this way , Sir John French was warned of large-scale German movements to his front before the Battle of Mons and later of Kluck 's attempts to envelop the BEF .
18 For even before it , the new president 's attempts to form a government of national unity had been faltering , thanks mainly to Gen Aoun 's opposition .
19 For even before it , the new president 's attempts to form a government of national unity had been faltering , thanks mainly to Gen Aoun 's opposition .
20 The event is part of the Rugby Football Union 's attempts to promote the game .
21 Thru literalizes this defining characteristic of narrative by constantly thwarting the reader 's attempts to assign the text to a given ‘ voice ’ .
22 Man 's attempts to tame the flood have not always progressed smoothly .
23 The company 's attempts to mislead the public simply highlight how it profits by wrecking one of the Earth 's greatest natural treasures . "
24 Pre-dating the Act , and in some respects in contradiction to the aims of the national curriculum that forms the core of the legislation , were the government 's attempts to improve the structure and quality of vocational and technological education .
25 Urban violence , inadequate infrastructure and , at 3.1 per cent a year , the fastest population growth in southern Asia were among the chief obstacles in the way of the Bhutto government 's attempts to revitalize the economy .
26 Mr Jones 's attempts to control the situation by speech , his speech forms being in all probability m the mode of command , are reported as leading amazingly rapidly to the offer of violence .
27 Alford was equally staunch in championing the rights of the Commons against the Lords , whether protesting at the Upper House 's attempts to control the negotiations over the Scottish union or complaining against their insistence on members ' ‘ standing so long bare ’ at conferences .
28 Marx 's attempts to explore the wreck were unsuccessful ; fourteen years later Captain Herbert Humphreys Jr negotiated a deal with the Bahamian government which gave him three-quarters of the profits of all items found .
29 Feminism 's attempts to explore the subjectivities of female subjects who are ignored or silenced by western discourses have led it to develop some methodological preferences of its own .
30 The inverse of the use of this sweet spice comes with the kissing of Alison 's arse , " " ful savourly " " ( 3734 – 5 ) and Absolon 's attempts to take the taste of that away : — note here the details appropriate to this action taking place in a carpenter 's yard .
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