Example sentences of "[adj] to [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feels searing anger , not constructive , not realistic , not tolerant ; no way clear to seeing the other point of view . |
| 2 | First of all there is the project document of which the format and content are so often quite unsuited to tackling the formidable tasks required for a successful conservation programme . |
| 3 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 4 | We will begin by discussing the role of sugar puckering which we have recently suggested is central to characterising the fine structure of the DNA double helix ( 17 ) . |
| 5 | To appreciate why certain questions are currently preoccupying psychobiologists , why they favour the particular answers that are in vogue , and why they seem to have neglected , until recently , many of the issues that non-psychologists would consider central to understanding the biological bases of behaviour , a short lesson on the history of psychobiology is relevant . |
| 6 | To that end she had a place at Norwich City College to read for a B A in hospitality management subject to achieving the right grades in her A levels and achieving O level maths or its equivalent . |
| 7 | Control in most cases is ex post and akin to closing the stable door when the horse has bolted . |
| 8 | The majority now feel that , far from being irrelevant , the ‘ equality agenda ’ is crucial to influencing the long-term quality of working life for both women and men , and thus the credibility of the trade-union movement . |
| 9 | After 1977 its brief was extended to include industrial , environmental and recreational projects — a reflection of the white paper 's suggestion that economic decline was crucial to understanding the urban problem . |
| 10 | There are several references to the importance commentators attached to the relationship between the stability of the family and that of the state , which is certainly crucial to explaining the long reluctance to reform the divorce law . |
| 11 | Since these behavioural data are so crucial to interpreting the physiological findings they will repay careful scrutiny . |
| 12 | Finally , the regulationist theories ' emphasis on the nation-state makes it amenable to studying the internal structure of a country . |
| 13 | Critics and the viewing public were quite accustomed to seeing the nude and even courtisanes in pictures . |
| 14 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 15 | We are increasingly accustomed to questioning the eternal validity of social roles , and we now recognise that the way in which we define masculinity and femininity , ‘ motherhood ’ and ‘ fatherhood ’ , even ‘ childhood ’ , are culturally specific and often bear little relationship to the expected or ascribed roles in other cultures , nor are they , of course , simple products of biology . |
| 16 | Clinicians have been accustomed to having the prime influence over the deployment of resources and to enjoying considerable freedom to pursue their professional activities . |
| 17 | One day , he thought , we shall probably know each other , and for that reason he turned away from the window , not feeling quite equal to meeting the unashamed curiosity of their glances as they came nearer . |
| 18 | This character moving at a snail 's pace on a table is Helix Aspersa Maxima … the Large Grey Algerian.And if you 're partial to munching the odd mollusc … he 's quite the tastiest morsel there is.Here at the L'Escargot Anglais snail farm in Herefordshire , Tony Vaughan produces four tons of snails a year … that 's around half a million individuals.He set the business up three and a half years ago after leaving the army.And now he 's supplying restaurants and supermarkets , as well as exporting to Eastern Europe : |
| 19 | Finally , prior to accessing the relational database you must set your DEC Rdb/VMS or ORACLE default database , as appropriate , to whichever database your LIFESPAN Manager has set up to retain the transferred LIFESPAN information . |
| 20 | We have already discussed this in relation to the acute anxiety spiral but it is well worth repeating that avoidance , prior to encountering the full experience of the feared situation , occurs because of what the person believes is going to happen . |
| 21 | And Joffre , planning to extend his left flank , prior to enveloping the German right , appealed to King Albert of the Belgians to abandon the North Sea coast and thrust inland with the Belgian Army to join his swinging manoeuvre . |
| 22 | This binds the old decoration prior to applying the new |
| 23 | Flashband Plus includes a can of special primer for the preparation of porous surfaces such as brickwork , timber , concrete and mineralised felt , prior to applying the flashing strip |
| 24 | While the Blue Jays licked their wounds , the Athletics began the celebrations prior to hosting the first two games of the World Series at the Coliseum next weekend . |
| 25 | On Dec. 12 the United States Secretary of State , James Baker , who was visiting Bonn ( the West German capital ) prior to attending the ministerial meeting of the North Atlantic Council ( NAC-the supreme decision-making body of NATO ) held in Brussels on Dec. 14-15 , presented four specific new roles for the NATO alliance . |
| 26 | The least distant neighbour version ( costig ) was more applicable to ordering the cosmid library under the scheme of sampling without replacement and has a menu-driven interface allowing , among other options , the output of any single contig specified by a probe belonging to it . |
| 27 | Thin-section petrography is a standard geological technique , fundamental to determining the mineralogical and textural characteristics of rocks ; it can be applied in just the same way to ceramic materials . |
| 28 | The evolutionary theory fundamental to understanding the human emergence has recently acquired a firmer basis than ever before ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The political fallout , while all very interesting to politicians , must be secondary to getting the best representation for the people of Colchester . ’ |
| 30 | But basically his success is due to making the most of the resources available , and grabbing opportunities for improving the garden when they arise . |