Example sentences of "task of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , psychologists frequently have the task of mediating between the needs and interests of the different participants involved with the child and their key role in the decision-making process . |
| 2 | Fortunately , Leinster 's front five , which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald , looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks . |
| 3 | By reporting the character ’ s thoughts in the third person , past tense , as in traditional narrative , but keeping to vocabulary appropriate to the character , and omitting some or all of the tags that normally introduce reported speech ( like ‘ he thought ’ , ‘ she wondered ’ , etc. ) an effect of intimate access to the character 's inner self is produced , without relinquishing the task of narrating to the character entirely , as in the pseudo-autobiography or interior monologue . |
| 4 | For a period of six months in British Airways all personnel and training staff were taken away from their normal duties and assigned to the task of helping with the process of change . |
| 5 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | The task of dealing with the mainly English force of rebels commanded by the M.P . |
| 7 | The profit-seeking firm faces the difficult task of searching for the appropriate profit-maximising output and profit margin . |
| 8 | The Commission has been charged with the task of looking at the implementation of unitary authorities at county and district level . |
| 9 | Once the mother embarked on the task of looking after the child , there was a binding contract . |
| 10 | Mrs Coxen was aided in her task of looking after the children by her niece , Mrs Mitchell , who also moved into Broad Street with her husband , who , in turn , was charged with helping to run the house . |
| 11 | Our generation must take on the task of thinking about the future , of assuming towards it the responsibility that we assume towards our children . |
| 12 | These inspectors , although originally instituted to inspect schools receiving grants from Parliament — a function now replaced by the task of reporting to the Secretary of State for Education on the quality of educational provision — have always had the aim of seeking to improve education in the institutions they visit . |
| 13 | Another way of reducing end-of-session flap is to spread the task of memorising over the whole year . |
| 14 | If judges carry out their duty of assessing damages for non-economic loss in the money of the day at the date of the trial — and this is a rule of practice that judges are required to follow , not a guideline from which they have a discretion to depart if there are special circumstances that justify their doing so — there are two routes by which the judge 's task of arriving at the appropriate conventional rate of interest to be applied to the damages so assessed can be approached . |
| 15 | For two years Vlasov was limited to the depressing task of fighting for the very survival of his movement . |
| 16 | With the two umbilicals deployed , the bellman has the lonely task of remaining in the bell until the run is complete . |
| 17 | Some mortgagees have standard clauses that they require to be inserted in the conveyance or transfer of the property charged in their favour and some mortgagees require to approve the draft document , whilst others ( for instance , the Halifax Building Society ) delegate the task of drafting to the mortgagee 's solicitor with a few suggested ( but by no means mandatory ) clauses . |
| 18 | ‘ The churches in eastern Europe now face the great task of contributing to the struggle for stability and for a just social and economic order in their countries , ’ the report said . |
| 19 | The interviewer ( let us say it is a man for ease of being able to say ‘ he ’ and ‘ she ’ in this case , even though most interviewers are women ) will expect to open the conversation and he has the task of explaining to the housewife , simply and briefly : |
| 20 | As Birch has pointed out , the Committee , the upper tier , will have the major task of negotiating with the government the proportion of the total national expenditure on public sector higher education and of sharing it out among the institutions ; in these very difficult tasks , it would ‘ benefit greatly from the presence and advice of additional members of standing in higher education and in relevant fields of employment ’ . |
| 21 | Since the Criminal Law Revision Committee produced its Working Paper , the Crown Prosecution Service has taken over the task of prosecuting from the police . |
| 22 | Havant take over the daunting task of challenging for the European Cup in Amsterdam , with Hounslow moving to the south of Holland to compete at Vught where a favourable draw puts them among the favourites to reach Monday 's final . |
| 23 | Today many young people fail in the task of maturing into the genital phase of adolescence , a process which apparently needs much time ; they do not fully outgrow the phallic stage . |
| 24 | By the end of the year , Mrs Thatcher was in the chair of a new cabinet committee , Misc. 141 , which had been given the task of preparing for the fast-approaching day when limits would be set on greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 25 | Why , after all , should the Germans derive any satisfaction from the task of giving to the victors that which they themselves had worked so hard to build up ? |
| 26 | Set your students the task of talking to the camera in the way a reporter or newsreader does . |