Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life . |
| 2 | Finance can be available from the Housing Corporation , building societies and local authorities , from whom land can also sometimes be acquired at a reasonable price if councils want to dispose of some building land unwanted because of reductions in their own building programmes — perhaps at prices below market value if restrictions on resale are accepted . |
| 3 | The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers . |
| 4 | Moreover , when one group of enterprises is given the privilege of retaining foreign exchange while others are obliged to apply for administrative allocations , which they know that they will frequently not receive , or to buy foreign exchange on the black market at a high price , the latter enterprises begin to think of all sorts of reasons why they too should receive part of the foreign exchange proceeds of exports . |
| 5 | And in the income does hire refer to hire of this room ? |
| 6 | His grandmother like to talk of past times too . |
| 7 | draw on examples from across the curriculum , and in particular those existing requirements for mathematics and science which refer to use of spoken language and vocabulary , asking questions , working in groups , explaining and presenting ideas , giving and understanding instructions ; |
| 8 | You even get to think of two sorts of ownership . |
| 9 | I shiver to think of that breakfast . |
| 10 | Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop . |
| 11 | As companies continue to dispose of non-core subsidiaries , this next generation of MBI managers will have golden opportunities to acquire companies at realistic prices . ’ |
| 12 | Mary Stocks later wrote that ‘ this was a solemn thought for opponents who had formerly visualized family allowances as a threat to the wage earner 's incentive … it was her [ Eleanor Rathbone 's ] turn to talk of economic incentive now ’ . |
| 13 | Then try to think of one thing at a time as you write . |
| 14 | But we try to think of happy memories together too . |
| 15 | We tend to think of joint finance , in the English context , as involving the district health authority , but there is a range of agencies — from the highest level in the NHS down to the family practitioner committees — who must have a part to play in planning community services and of course in supporting community services . |
| 16 | Although we tend to think of industrial effluent , sewage is a more important source of pollution . |
| 17 | But what happens now will depend not on a strategy cooked up in Westminster , but on what Irish politicians from north and south of the border choose to make of each other . |
| 18 | ‘ I have learned all I wish to know of American women . |
| 19 | One path of enquiry leads Gallop to repudiate this ‘ homosexual economy ’ and speculate thus : ‘ I wish to speak of radical heterosexuality , a true openness and love for the heteros , the other , an intercourse between two modalities … . |
| 20 | And so in the course of time , we come to speak of these rights as equitable rights ( because they have their origin in the protection of Equity or the Court of Chancery ) or equally we refer to them as " beneficial rights " because they tell you not who has the legal title ( the legal estate ) but who is entitled to enjoyment or the benefit of the land . |
| 21 | So you have to beware of blind alleys like that ; from personal experience , there are loads of these styles that no-one has ever asked me to play . ’ |
| 22 | The Red Crescent has the most work to do of any member of the International Committee of the Red Cross . |
| 23 | We have to think of possible test factors which are related to both income and preparedness to break the law . |
| 24 | And we 've got ta go around and you have to think of one word to do with police until we stop until we run out of them . |
| 25 | Indeed , we only have to think of such people as Einstein , Picasso , Michelangelo , Goethe and George Bernard Shaw to realise that the brain is definitely capable of functioning — and functioning to great effect — well into one 's eighties or nineties . |
| 26 | People paid weekly , and on weekly budgets ( probably tight ) , virtually have to think of weekly instalments if they want credit , regardless of the costs which are potentially high ( whether directly with trading checks or credit traders , or indirectly through rather higher prices with mail order ) . |
| 27 | Again , the implication is clear — we have to think of buried sites in their landscapes , which will only be detected via redevelopment projects and cropmarks on air photographs . |
| 28 | We have to think of little Enoch . ’ |