Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Thatcher government 's strong stance on many issues won much popular support amongst a people weary of attempts to defy the law by left-wing local authorities , strike pickets , or disaffected journalists . |
| 32 | By the mid-1960s MITI recognized the importance of the industry by increasing loans and subsidies and embarking on a series of attempts to rationalize the industry and/or organize cooperative ventures . |
| 33 | After the failure of attempts to salvage the talks — the first between the two countries since May and originally scheduled for July — they were abandoned on Nov. 6 . |
| 34 | There has been , however , a range of attempts to emphasize the place of commodities in exemplifying some general condition of dominance , which goes beyond the more particular implications of ideology . |
| 35 | Finally we discuss press reporting of attempts to change the situation , firstly , in Chapter 6 , by research and official reports , and then in Chapter 7 , by changing the law as it pertains to the legal processing of sex criminals . |
| 36 | Each stage in this series of attempts to consolidate the validity of the observation statement , ‘ Here is a piece of chalk ’ , involves an appeal not only to further observation statements but also to more theoretical generalizations . |
| 37 | Studies of attempts to co-ordinate the efforts of various professions concerned to protect children from injury by their parents have suggested that particular professional practices , activities and terminology may intensify communication problems . |
| 38 | There were therefore a number of attempts to avoid the conclusion that there had been a big bang . |
| 39 | One of the first of a long series of attempts to reconstruct the facts behind the records was undertaken by Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 — 1768 ) in his Apology for the Reasonable Worshippers of God . |
| 40 | ‘ We get all sorts of requests to match the husband 's kilt . |
| 41 | The recording of fades to mark the beginning and end of a sequence is another of those chores which is easier to carry out during post-production editing than during live shooting . |
| 42 | Not that Paracelsus always found the right ones : One wonders how many unfortunates owed their demise to his prescription of mercury to clarify the spleen . |
| 43 | A problem-solving approach was employed which included the use of contracts to enable the couple to reciprocate efforts at improving their relationship . |
| 44 | The vendor of our current house also put us under some pressure to keep on her cleaner but , this time , we waited until the exchange of contracts to reject the idea . |
| 45 | Where the person under disability wishes to be a plaintiff or applicant , before commencing proceedings , if he is a mental patient and a person is authorised by order of the Court of Protection to conduct the proceedings , then that person must file in the court office a sealed office copy of the Court of Protection 's order ( Ord 10 , r 2(a) ) . |
| 46 | This is a high enough level of protection to control the diseases and prevent epidemics devastating whole communities . |
| 47 | The pattern of cell divisions was found to be invariant , every normal worm going through exactly the same pattern of cleavages to form the body . |
| 48 | As for Wednesday , they descended from the company of sheep to beat the might of Chester 2-0 . |
| 49 | This move follows the successful use of sheep to help the grassland habitat at Carew Castle . |
| 50 | ( 4 ) Reasonable limits had to be placed on the use of deputies to enable the doctor to fulfil his fundamental obligation of giving treatment personally . |
| 51 | He must then decide whether or not to summon a meeting of creditors to replace the trustee having regard to the stage in the administration reached by the previous trustee ( s 300(3) ) . |
| 52 | The scheme has also provided for the building of roads to take the goods to market , and other projects to help ease the transition . |
| 53 | Mitres are folded at the corners of hems to distribute the bulk of fabric evenly and neatly . |
| 54 | Do I have sufficient management skills available within my area of responsibility to maximise the contribution of a new recruit ? |
| 55 | Whatever excuses or explanations may be offered in mitigation of the numerous indictments that may be levelled against the organised religions , surely nothing can vindicate their apparent widespread abandonment of responsibility to denounce the decline of standards on all moral fronts . |
| 56 | But at the same time , an enormous sense of responsibility to protect the church , the family , and the minds and hearts of the faithful from incursions by the state was perceived to be the basic duty of the church leaders . |
| 57 | Part of the trouble stemmed from a dislike of Sandys ' refusal to heed professional advice , and from his propensity for allowing the senior civil servants in the Ministry of Defence to usurp the powers that properly belonged to the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 58 | For the past two years , a cross-party section of politicians , mountaineers , hillwalkers and fishermen has lobbied the Ministry of Defence to retain the unit at Leuchars , which since its inception in 1955 has carried out 2,731 rescues . |
| 59 | It seems to be a very sensible move by the Ministry of Defence to alter the structure of our forces in the way in which it is at present proceeding . |
| 60 | Coventry , UK : After 19 years with Courtaulds , 13 as head of safety , is leaving at the end of March to join the Fisons group . |