Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 2 | ‘ I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race . ’ |
| 3 | There is less strictly legal work at this stage of your career although the ability to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of a particular course of action and to argue for and defend your authority 's position all require the use of such skills . |
| 4 | In 1903 a loosely structured organization , the Union of Liberation , was formed to unite all sections of opposition and to press for constitutional democracy based on universal , equal , secret and direct franchise . |
| 5 | The purpose of this process of doubting is to strain off the dross of uncertainty and to leave behind a residue of knowledge — objective , certain , universal . |
| 6 | Educational establishments , through partnerships need to research into supportive evaluative procedures , to simplify lines of accountability and to attend to issues of quality in education . |
| 7 | In the new climate of the 1980s , Yugoslavia was obliged to follow a different pattern of adjustment and to concentrate on changing the volumes of its commodity exports and imports . |
| 8 | So that 's the first rule of good negotiating : learn to master the art of listening and to feel at home with silence . |
| 9 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |
| 10 | These can be used to sharpen skills of inference and to focus on underlying attitudes , prejudices and entrenched beliefs , about which even the subject himself may not have been fully conscious . |
| 11 | The executive council also expressed concern at the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , and asked the Director-General to send a mission of inquiry and to report on the conditions of workers and employers and their associations in that country . |
| 12 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |
| 13 | To mourn is to be stripped of self-sufficiency and to identify with the needy on their own level , not from above them . |
| 14 | However , in order to make meaningful comparisons more is needed than merely comparative information , since within any field of study theory is necessary both to provide a framework for the systematic analysis and accumulation of the existing stock of knowledge and to serve as a guide for the selection of research problems . |
| 15 | His compulsion to be of service and to act from his feelings had found its outlet . |
| 16 | This association calls upon Council to make strong representations , including the use of the normal information retrieval procedures , to both the Advertising Standards Authority and the Office of Fair Trading to control more effectively the current advertising of and the availability of credit and to press for a tightening of existing guidelines and legislation covering advertising loans , credit cards and other financial services , in order to make the full implications clearer to the consumer ( for example , the nature of a secured loan ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Until then , they could n't even ask for a glass of water or to go to the toilet . |
| 18 | did neglect ( or refuse ) to stop the vehicle ( or to make the vehicle proceed in a particular line of traffic or to make the vehicle keep to a particular line of traffic or to proceed to a particular point ) |
| 19 | ‘ did neglect ( or refuse ) to stop the vehicle ( or to make the vehicle proceed in a particular line of traffic or to make the vehicle keep to a particular line of traffic or to proceed to a particular point ) ’ This phrase means : |
| 20 | ‘ did neglect ( or refuse ) to stop the vehicle ( or to make the vehicle proceed in a particular line of traffic or to make the vehicle keep to a particular line of traffic or to proceed to a particular point ) ’ The proving of this phrase will depend on the circumstances of each case . |
| 21 | Bankers ' willingness to purchase ocean bills of lading and to rely on them as collateral provided much of the impetus for universalizing bill of lading practices until the 1960's . |
| 22 | It can only be up to ourselves to either be seduced by this sly trickster and his façade of grandeur or to laugh in the face of his absurdity and bring forth the somewhat obscured benevolence of God , his son , and our first ancestral parents , to achieve some perspective to the poem as a whole . |
| 23 | The children can also become antagonistic towards the parents and refuse to get out of bed or to go to the lavatory . |
| 24 | It is clear that the obligation not to use or disclose information may cover secret processes of manufacture such as chemical formulae , or designs or special methods of construction , and other information which is of a sufficiently high degree of confidentiality as to amount to a business secret . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ The Macaulay is a major research facility , established in Scotland , which has the capacity to operate at the leading edge of science and to contribute to the solution of practical problems concerned with the environment . |
| 26 | One of Charles 's most fruitful contributions to knowledge of the wider world was his establishment in 1675 of Greenwich Observatory , which was intended quite as much to assist sailors with the problems of navigation as to carry on scientific research . |
| 27 | The resultant lack of manpower prompted authorities in several regions to declare a state of emergency and to call on all able-bodied citizens to help with harvesting . |
| 28 | By 1762 his profitable practice enabled Fothergill to purchase Ham House in Upton with about thirty acres of land and to embark on the creation of an outstanding garden . |
| 29 | Dunning ( 1901 ) left it unclear whether fascist demonstrations could be construed as a genuine attempt to convert people to a point of view or to provoke by insult . |
| 30 | In fact , however , its function ‘ was not to represent the workers ’ interests , but to prepare for the seizure of power and to serve as the organizational prototype of a new form of state power . ’ |