Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [noun sg] [prep] [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 | Or more exactly , while he does stress the difference between poetry and referential language , he also stresses that the experience which poetry produces differs only in degree , not in kind , from other types of emotive experience . |
| 4 | Naturally he would stress the difference between phalanx and legion in a war between Macedonians and Romans ( 18.28 ) , but he would not present the war as a conflict between Macedonian monarchy and the Roman mixed constitution . |
| 5 | But while recommending such long-term plans , I must stress the need for flexibility . |
| 6 | Indeed , we shall stress the importance of work organization in change agendas geared towards securing competitive advantage in uncertain market environments . |
| 7 | So when they laugh , as in fact they do often , they must muffle the sound beneath sobriety , and hope no one notices . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Neither industry nor farming can absorb the population of working age . |
| 12 | Anyway , they have not really the transport for a journey as far as this and in any case , they could not spare the time from work . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Likewise lending abroad may expose the lender to exchange rate risk , so foreign loans , in principle , command a higher interest rate than that on domestic lending . |
| 15 | The approach does , however , emphasize the importance of time periods . |
| 16 | To avoid this we can emphasize the need for honesty , or provide a filter question so that a low-prestige answer seems equally acceptable . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The latest software can imitate the texture of flesh or the topography of a mountain range . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Why did you build the lake in advance of the inquiry ? |
| 27 | You can build the chamber with brick or blockwork , or even plywood sealed with G4 . |
| 28 | Mr. Wing was a prominent local architect and he went on to design and build the House of Industry . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |