Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , there 's nothing secretive or lacking in discussion on the new laws in operation — and how refreshing to mention something that does not invoke the subject of money . |
| 2 | An alternative explanation of collective agricultural work could very plausibly stress the degree of compulsion by landlords on landless peasantry . |
| 3 | Indeed , we shall stress the importance of work organization in change agendas geared towards securing competitive advantage in uncertain market environments . |
| 4 | It must surely be apparent that , with death visiting almost every family with such regularity , any attempt to mask or evade the reality of death could not have succeeded , and would probably have made the situation worse . |
| 5 | To tap that requires roots that probe deep between the particles of the soil and can absorb the film of water that clings to them in all except the most arid environments . |
| 6 | I would respectfully suggest that it is grossly unfair that X , who may not be ( as in this case ) a large corporate enterprise , should absorb the cost of government 's unconstitutional act . |
| 7 | Neither industry nor farming can absorb the population of working age . |
| 8 | We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded . |
| 9 | The ECSC and EDC , it was believed , would finally consign the shibboleths of nationalism to a tardy grave . |
| 10 | The approach does , however , emphasize the importance of time periods . |
| 11 | Although some philosophers and psychologists would emphasize the role of action in controlling perception ( see chapter 2 ) and some talk of ‘ top down ’ constraints on the interpretation of the perceived , the causal role of incident energy remains fundamental and the materialist version of the CTP essentially unchallenged . |
| 12 | The latest software can imitate the texture of flesh or the topography of a mountain range . |
| 13 | Nathalie Sarraute 's condemnation of plot and character in L'ère du soupçon is based firmly on the conviction that traditional narrative can not convey the experience of incoherence and discontinuity in modern life , nor the dissolution of the personality . |
| 14 | Help those who seek to communicate the gospel , in words , in pictures , in books , on radio , television and films ; give them the help of your Holy Spirit , so that they may convey the message of hope and new life to the hearts and the minds of those who hear , who read , who watch . |
| 15 | Menzel ( 1973 ) has shown that non-speaking chimpanzees can convey the location of food to one another in a large field enclosure ; Wrangham notes that individual awareness of food resources in the natural environment is acute ; but how much information transfer occurs in the wild remains unknown . |
| 16 | Gascoigne suspected that MacArthur wanted a peace conference to take place because it would convey the impression of activity to the Japanese but that MacArthur did not necessarily desire a treaty to emerge from it . |
| 17 | However , although the averages given in the last column of Table 4 are of some value they do not convey the reality of referral and investigative work . |
| 18 | The first tends to refer mainly to the military context which , while obviously important , is not what this book is about ; and the second is clearly state-centrist , and does not fully convey the scnse of hegemony where it does not directly involve the state , which I take to be crucial . |
| 19 | Against this — or alongside the importance of conscious thought — we must affirm the possibility of practice as critique ; the legitimacy ( however compromised ) of subsuming ‘ music ’ , narrowly defined , within other social activities ; and the necessity to consider its effects in relation to the structure of the ‘ external [ social ] world ’ . |
| 20 | Mr. Wing was a prominent local architect and he went on to design and build the House of Industry . |
| 21 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 22 | CAN ANYBODY be expected to take the Deputy Director of Wirral Social Services seriously when he suggests that feeding curry to toddlers will help them counteract the evils of racism ? |
| 23 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 24 | The aims of the programme : to establish the location of foreign ethnographic material in museums , universities , research institutes and private collections ; to encourage and coordinate the recording of information about their collections by in-house museum staff ; to record collections or organise recording by other specialists in cases where no professional staff are available to undertake the work ; to establish a computerised database for the recorded information and to publish the findings of the survey . |
| 25 | ‘ You did not expound the words of scripture . |
| 26 | State administrative agencies thus feed off the results of interest-group pressure , and interest groups find in the administration multiple points of access through which they can influence the formulation of government policy . |
| 27 | Calcium supplementation did not influence the solubility of bile acids in the ileu , but it reduced their solubility to about 20% in the colon and faeces . |
| 28 | Thus , it seems , the nature of the verbal material does influence the degree of RFA . |
| 29 | The answers provided by the ECJ will influence the degree of tolerance extended to women who may not always wish to or may not be able to control their fertility and yet are capable of combining paid work and motherhood if given the chance |
| 30 | We have established that rational expectations per se do not imply policy ineffectiveness , for when rational expectations are combined with alternative models of the macroeconomy systematic policy can influence the behaviour of output and allow the authorities to undertake stabilization policies . |