Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would also stress the absolute undesirability of the court making an order which may have the effect of compelling a doctor or health authority to make available scarce resources ( both human and material ) to a particular child , without knowing whether or not there are other patients to whom those resources might more advantageously be devoted . |
| 2 | In fairness to its selectors one must stress the virtual absence of any important body of writing expressing an alternative Left viewpoint . |
| 3 | It is therefore not surprising that he should here stress the psychological aspects of pain and its control rather than the nuts and bolts of nociceptors , unmyelinated afferents , spinothalamic tracts and those splendid phrases designed to send medical students back to sleep in the belief that they now understand pain mechanisms . |
| 4 | First , we would stress the immense size of the resource . |
| 5 | Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities . |
| 6 | A self catering holiday , in a typical Italian villa or apartment , is the only way to really absorb the true lifestyle of our country . |
| 7 | He saw , with that sharp acumen that made the Heinz organisation famous , that Portland Place could not absorb the expanding requirements of a British Architectural Library , an architecture centre , and a professional institution . |
| 8 | At the same time , the Asian participants acknowledged the need to extend and deepen their dialogue with people of different faiths and cultures and to ‘ rediscover the latent power of the media in preaching the Good News of justice , freedom and peace . ’ |
| 9 | We 'll expose the broken promises of Number Ten |
| 10 | I will emphasize the graphical nature of the Chart data structure , and the usefulness of such a structure both for representing linguistic data , and for analyzing the results of linguistic processing . |
| 11 | Despite the complex set of influences , we would emphasize the high rate of accumulation as the most fundamental factor behind the decline in profitability . |
| 12 | Different approaches to the organization of knowledge may emphasize the relative importance of either the first or second objective , but it is difficult to neglect one without impairing the effectiveness of the other . |
| 13 | Four spare SIMM slots mean you can upgrade the basic 4Mb of RAM to a whopping 32Mb . |
| 14 | No robots or computers anywhere in the world can imitate the complex functions of your human body . |
| 15 | It is not , therefore , expected that one should imitate the Japanese mode of dress . |
| 16 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 17 | The chicken can imitate the thermal characteristics of foods kept in refrigerators and detects temperature changes . |
| 18 | Is the attempt to make such a separation meaningful , and above all can one devise the appropriate form of highly reductionist experiment which will enable a distinction to be made between these processes ? |
| 19 | It is time to identify and explode the powerful myth of critical doubt and dispel the clouds of defeatism which it lowers on Christian faith . |
| 20 | Very few games , regardless of quality , can convey the general atmosphere of a film , no matter how hard the programmer has tried . |
| 21 | Other Nikiyas — Durante or Guillem — may for instance assume a charming Oriental fluidity in their arms , but only Asylnuratova 's urgency and amplitude of gesture can convey the destructive extremes of Nikiya 's nature . |
| 22 | He argues that the convention partners should affirm the broad principles of the scheme for a devolved Scottish parliament in the UK agreed before the last election and move on to adopt an educational role . |
| 23 | One may affirm the fundamental principle of non-violence and yet feel morally bound to kill the madman given the circumstances . |
| 24 | It said the code represented a ‘ foundation for good practice and ethical conduct … on which we can build the growing reputation of the industry ’ . |
| 25 | Never under-estimate the power of the mind-body , which can either trap or liberate the spiritual aspect of self . |
| 26 | If only he could find the switch to throw or the knob to turn that would liberate the real potential of communism . |
| 27 | we could also loose the lost chord of blackness , become head-on blind . |
| 28 | The rest of Europe will now construct the social institutions of Europe with Britain excluded — but we shall not be excluded from being influenced by what they do in the short term . |
| 29 | The works of mercy and the virtues together show that combination of active life and inner condition that can counteract the subversive activities of the seven sins : pride , envy , wrath , gluttony , covetousness , sloth and lechery . |
| 30 | At some point in training , then , the loss of effectiveness of the inhibitory association occasioned by a change of context will counteract the reduced effectiveness of the excitatory association more or less exactly and the outcome will be little or no net change in the observed CR . |