Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding attempts to diversify the production of commodities , Vietnam 's state-owned enterprises faced strong competition from private companies after losing their subsidy and monopoly rights . |
| 2 | Such greed can drive people to sacrifice the well-being of others . |
| 3 | It 's clear now , if it was n't clear then , that they were willing to sacrifice the well-being of schools , of their staff and pupils , for the glory of their leader and for national recognition of the then Councillor , as the most ardent of Thatcher disciples and ensuring for him another step towards that coveted safe Tory seat |
| 4 | In this case mobility between firms is constrained because labour may have to sacrifice the growth in earnings they could expect if they remained with their current firm . |
| 5 | There are also powers to compel the attendance of witnesses by obtaining a witness order . |
| 6 | Now we have to accommodate the tastes of partners of immediate family as well as our own offspring , so choice is careful indeed . |
| 7 | This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows : |
| 8 | As a mark of friendship with his second son , the Duke of York ( later George Vl ) , King George V granted Diana 's grandfather , Maurice Fermoy , the 4th Baron , the lease of Park House , a spacious property originally built to accommodate the overflow of guests and staff from nearby Sandringham House . |
| 9 | From the fourth century , popes , bishops , and emperors competed in fostering the memorials of the martyrs , rediscovering or restoring their burials , adorning them with inscriptions recording their deeds , erecting great basilicas in the cemeteries to accommodate the crowds of worshippers . |
| 10 | Thousands of insanitary back-to-back houses were built to get as many as inhumanly possible into every acre of land to accommodate the legions of workers . |
| 11 | What we have now had thrust upon us is a precedent to hasten death , not really to help the patient die with dignity but to accommodate the judgment of others that the patient 's life is no longer possessed of ‘ quality ’ . |
| 12 | This is rational behaviour only if speculators are risk-neutral and are willing to accommodate the demands of hedgers without additional compensation in the form of a risk premium in excess of the risk-free rate . |
| 13 | The Church of England may have found it easier to accommodate the cult of hygienics and efficiency . |
| 14 | In Leeson 's case the General Medical Council had disqualified a doctor for infamous misconduct in a prosecution brought by the Medical Defence Union , an organisation designed to uphold the character of doctors and to suppress unauthorised practitioners . |
| 15 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 16 | Information supplied to enable the performance of contracts |
| 17 | To isolate these sequences we used the enzyme T 4 DNA polymerase which has been shown to enable the isolation of telomeres with virtually no loss of telomeric DNA ( 30 ) . |
| 18 | The cost of developing new generations of chip technology are so high that collaboration is increasingly the order of the day , and Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have decided to join forces on the development of logic process technology to enable the production of microprocessors with 5m to 10m transistors on a single chip by 1995 . |
| 19 | The auditors also discovered delays and large variations in the department 's reporting procedures which are supposed to alert the ministry to problems . |
| 20 | Languages vary in the extent to which they rely on word order to signal the relationship between elements in the clause . |
| 21 | I believe that you have to be tall to wear the kind of outfits that I do . |
| 22 | An Ornaments Rubric included in the 1559 Prayer Book ordered the use of vestments and the alb and cope during the communion service ; and the 1559 injunctions required the clergy to wear the surplice during services , as well as their distinctive outdoor dress which set them apart from the laity . |
| 23 | A large item in the contemporary bill of lading-letter of credit practice missing from this list is the letter of indemnity issued by banks to prompt the release of goods that arrive prior to the arrival of the original bill of lading . |
| 24 | His winning formula has been to restore the houses in stages , a wing at a time : they are so attractive and such good value that they almost invariably sell before they are completed . |
| 25 | The year 1475 was to prove crucial for the recovery of cloth exports , as the Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanse and the Treaty of Picquigny with France did much to restore the level of exports in the latter years of Edward IV 's reign ( 94 , pp.26–9 , 34–6 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Of even greater importance is the need to restore the link between earnings and pensions . |
| 27 | In the case of three to five pixels being ON this was later refined to attempt to restore the continuity of lines through the point , by considering the four pairs of opposite pixels in the same 3 × 3 square surrounding it . |
| 28 | It is commonly argued that nationalization takes place in order to socialize the losses of sectors of capital where capitalist relations have broken down ( e.g. Fine and O'Donnell 1981 ) or to resolve an immediate crisis in a sector of the economy , as with the creation of the Italian state holding company IRI by Mussolini in response to the impending collapse of the banking system ( Maraffi 1980 ) . |
| 29 | More research is needed to optimise the size of droplets and their charge-to-mass ratio for different pesticides and targets . |
| 30 | Ethnocide or something approaching it revolts him , but he does not usually wish to champion the preservation of cultures simply as museum pieces . |