Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO British housewives beat hundreds of professional cooks to pick up first and second prizes in the Indian Chef of the Year contest . |
| 2 | The notion of ‘ policy ’ is insufficiently precise to indicate the role of members , for example in the consideration of the scope and content of cost-improvement programmes to free up resources for developments and unfunded elements of pay awards . |
| 3 | Events in Oxford and Bridgewater should have told him otherwise — as should the call , by representatives of 120 local Labour Parties meeting to discuss Spain , for Labour to take the initiative in forming an alliance of progressive forces to bring down Chamberlain . |
| 4 | Why could n't you break the power of the Treasury and get your beloved Department of Economic Affairs to take off ? |
| 5 | The regular production of films featuring these performers gave their production companies some sort of economic foundation to build on , as well as allowing producers like Balcon and Dean a glimpse of what a popular British cinema might achieve . |
| 6 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 7 | The obsession , for instance , with snapping endless portraits of complete strangers to take back home as mementoes struck them as particularly humorous . |
| 8 | The moth 's surest means of staying alive , therefore , is not to be detected ; and it has the advantage of advance warning to keep out of the way . |
| 9 | He had two almost contemporary biographies and a wealth of oral tradition to draw on , and out of these materials he made a lively and dramatic portrait , full of sentiment and warmth , which easily outdistanced in popularity the biographies written by later writers who tried to do better . |
| 10 | You thus end up with a whole batch of specific tasks to carry out , some over several months , even years . |
| 11 | ( If you have been stimulated by all this consideration of hypothetical possibilities to find out what relationships actually hold between sex , job type and absenteeism , you might like to read Chadwick-Jones et al. |
| 12 | One of the principal factors causing the growth in church planting activity to dry up in other situations is the lack of full-time leaders to take on the work . |
| 13 | Current records managers and archivists must not allow the limits of their imagination to constrain the kinds of information they preserve because historians may wish to tap a wide range of possible sources to build up different views of the past . |
| 14 | Information on matters like drug and solvent abuse is widely available and will also tell you what signs of possible abuse to look out for . |
| 15 | The Finance Ministry proposed a range of possible measures to turn round failing enterprises , covering a spectrum from the introduction of outside management teams to liquidation . |
| 16 | Perhaps the work-load is high at the time , looking at the map and the ground for possible clues as to where they are , looking for signs of possible lift to climb in , together with all the other little worries involved in a field landing . |
| 17 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 18 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 19 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 20 | The nation now has a quarter of a century 's worth of anti-poverty experiments to draw on . |
| 21 | The partial lifting of the oil ban was reportedly prompted by a recent UN report recommending limited sales of Iraqi oil to stave off imminent mass starvation [ see p. 38361 ] . |
| 22 | Sarah Brightman 's Rose was a bloodless creature — she has to make us believe in the devil-may-care spirit of theatrical folk to show up the stuffiness of the aristocrats . |
| 23 | Now , though still experimental , the methods of gene-transfer promise to bring about even more productive variations , crossing the species-lines that has stopped nature cold . |
| 24 | When you have tired of building sand castles and the donkeys are having a break , there are plenty of interesting places to visit in and around the town . |
| 25 | An increasing imbalance between accumulation and supplies of additional labour requires the faster scrapping of old plant to speed up the transfer of workers to new means of production . |
| 26 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 27 | Personalities , presentational skills , prejudices , and political dogmas all play their part , but the working of the market-place helps the coinage of sound argument to drive out the counterfeit of special pleading . |
| 28 | Britain has a whole new culture of public education to work out : new expectations , customs , relationships and attitudes more profound than the new vocabulary which is at present being learnt . |
| 29 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 30 | In this sense professionals have already attempted to break down the norms of public discourse to bring on the clients of welfare who have suffered in silence . |