Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It aims to use scientific method to understand the fundamental processes of biology , agriculture , the environment and economics and to apply this understanding to the sustainable management of the world 's biological resources , including the provision of food , fibre , energy and natural products , for the benefit of man while at the same time developing methods to limit , control or eliminate conflicts of interest between the welfare of mankind and the well-being of animals , plants and the environment . |
| 2 | The pupil can relate units of length to each other . |
| 3 | Only I do want effect of possibility of getting lost . |
| 4 | Juvenile — juvenile subject to maximum term of twelve months ' detention in a young offender institution — effect of sentence in excess of twelve months ' detention in young offender institution — whether Court of Appeal may substitute sentence of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 section 53(2) |
| 5 | ‘ Often they 'll decide to photograph , say , a couple of people , but they 'll include acres of space around which they do n't want , ’ he says . |
| 6 | We shall consider methods of observation in detail in Chapter 3 . |
| 7 | My feeling is that what we ought to do is preserve areas of countryside without having to have this excuse for doing it . |
| 8 | Examination of pottery scatters might help in this , and in some ways we can consider pieces of pottery as documentary references . |
| 9 | Several firms , in both food processing and engineering , felt that productivity and competitiveness could be enhanced if they could guarantee security of employment to what they regarded as their " core " staff . |
| 10 | He does n't need reams of paper for that . |
| 11 | The Articles will include rights of pre-emption upon transfer which are appropriate to a private company . |
| 12 | Sources will be gas at temperatures of ten thousand to a million degrees ; they should include streamers of gas in double star systems , remains of old supernovae , and hot white dwarf stars . |
| 13 | THE European Community will provide finance over five years to help Morocco eradicate cultivation of cannabis in the Rif mountains in the north , the EC announced . |
| 14 | Redundancy , however , will often imply a major organisational change in the business , in which case other factors may have to be considered which may cumulatively outweigh length of service in a particular case . |
| 15 | Handicap hopes could include Source Of Light in the Bessborough and Tychonic in the Britannia . |
| 16 | Even if firms were completely market orientated , they would still make errors of judgement from time to time . |
| 17 | Remember you can show signs of judgement in terms of your body language ( see p. 109 ) as well as with what you say . |
| 18 | Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension . |
| 19 | Within the inner-city study , we believed that the language might show patterns of differentiation between older and younger speakers and between the sexes , but we did not know that it would , or if it did , what the precise differences would be . |
| 20 | The valve , which must be fitted vertically , comes in two sizes and the internal diaphragm will prevent loss of water from the trap seal by self-siphonage ( from the pipe running full ) or induced siphonage ( from other pipes running full and creating a vacuum ) |
| 21 | Moreover the assay requires immunoprecipitation that might be detrimental for detection of proteins ( other than bZIP proteins ) that only weakly associate with CREB or that might prevent recognition of CREB by the CREB antobody . |
| 22 | The second main theme in the book is the question of the extent to which fossils can contribute data of value to systematics , and it is , of course intimately entwined with the first question . |
| 23 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 24 | For example , a magazine aimed at mothers with young children will carry articles of interest to such mothers , and advertisements inserted by suppliers of mother-and-baby products . |
| 25 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 26 | Malachi could feel beads of sweat on his forehead . |
| 27 | Do not carry feelings of rejection from one situation over into the next . |
| 28 | It has been mentioned that a proportion of patients with secondary syphilis will show evidence of involvement of the central nervous system , usually of the meninges ( meningitis ) , the covering layers of the brain and spinal cord . |
| 29 | Patients who did not show evidence of relapse after this four week microchallenge had the diagnosis of coeliac disease confirmed by an open challenge with higher doses of gluten . |
| 30 | Both the head and the DCSL freely acknowledged that these developments were undertaken in the light of knowledge that a library project existed , and that schools might stand a better chance of securing a grant if they could show evidence of commitment to enhanced library provision . |