Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some degree , managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources . |
| 2 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 3 | Only hours before a meeting in New York on May 13th with holders of GPA 's unsecured bonds and medium-term notes ( MTNs ) , he clinched a deal in which GE Capital ( the finance arm of America 's General Electric ) stands eventually to acquire the bulk of GPA 's equity . |
| 4 | There also arises a more general question , which is whether it is open to this court to exercise the statutory discretion conferred by section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , or R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , so as to perfect an invalid order of committal and thereby to continue the imprisonment of a contemnor currently in prison under an invalid order . |
| 5 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 6 | Although they had already proved their skills with other publications , this book probably did most to signal the arrival of the Japanese as major quality printers in western markets . |
| 7 | Outer London authorities were mostly likely to report a decrease in allocation of money : only Wales and Northern Ireland uniformly reported no decreases , while Northern Ireland authorities were the only group uniformly to report an increase in expenditure . |
| 8 | Merely a questioning underline , presumably to emphasise the looseness of the phrase . |
| 9 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 10 | Given the close relationship between the occupational behaviour of working-class adolescents and their ‘ personality ’ , reformers faced certain difficulties : how to imbue them with approved ethical principles ; how to turn them into efficient workers ; how effectively to reorganize the labour-market for social and economic ends . |
| 11 | In one case the doctor 's name appeared in a promotional brochure as medical adviser to a company marketing an electrical device that was claimed successfully to treat a range of conditions including migraine , arthritis , insomnia , and depression . |
| 12 | Mr Johnston said it would be foolish to anticipate better advertising volumes for the provincial press in general , at least until the latter part of 1993 , but the group 's present lower cost base should certainly benefit profits if Britain was eventually to see the type of modest recovery which was beginning to boost the US newspaper industry . |
| 13 | I had neither , so I plodded stoically through the mire turning a corner eventually to see the summit of Ingleborough framed by the walls of the lane . |
| 14 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 15 | As schools become more practised and expert at constructing and implementing them , they should guarantee that the resources available to the school are used effectively to increase the range of opportunities and the quality of education for the pupil population . |
| 16 | In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it was the British navy which pioneered the two inventions which did most to increase the efficiency of eighteenth-century men-of-war . |
| 18 | She argues that we need to rethink the theories of moral development altogether to encompass a respect for both the masculine ‘ ethic of rights ’ and the feminine ‘ ethic of care ’ . |
| 19 | The idea is to protect American forces overseas from attack by ballistic missiles as soon as possible , and eventually to provide a defence for the United States . |
| 20 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 21 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 22 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 23 | But the immediate priority , he emphasised , was to get back to the basics which Sir Reo Stakis tried to inculcate in his managers : using staff effectively to provide a service on the spot and giving the customer what he or she needs and expects . |
| 24 | It did not take long to see the extension of the concept . |
| 25 | Professor Vo Quy ( profile , page 830 ) and Elizabeth Kemf have been working together to publicise the plight of Vietnam the country since Kemf , an American , made her first visit there in 1985 . |
| 26 | Yek bathing involved immersion up to the neck in water which was maintained at a temperature hot enough to strip the flesh from a man 's bones if he did not acclimatise himself to it gradually , and baths were communal . |
| 27 | In other words , the doctrine of the internality of relations together with the thesis of the independence of substance seems logically to lead to the position of ontological monism ; conversely , the monist thesis seems necessarily to presuppose the thesis of the internality of relations . |
| 28 | This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record . |
| 29 | ‘ Meaning ? ’ he said softly , but she was n't fool enough to miss the anger beneath the seemingly mild question . |
| 30 | Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith . |