Example sentences of "[verb] bear [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sources of power can groups and key individuals bring to bear on the budgetary process ? |
| 2 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 3 | In public bureaucracies there may be conflicts of interest between different levels of the hierarchy arising from the values which different strata bring to bear on the policies being pursued by the government . |
| 4 | We bring to bear on the various officers and employees and shareholders and others associated with the corporation our ordinary standards of personal responsibility . |
| 5 | Critics point out the nit-picking thoroughness which legal authorities in the Republic so often bring to bear on extradition requests . |
| 6 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 7 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 8 | Should not the Government , in the last few days of their existence , bring to bear upon the Iranian Government the utter condemnation that is felt by the people of the United Kingdom for the disgraceful action in imposing a death threat on a British citizen in the capital of the United Kingdom ? |
| 9 | There are two main points that the reader needs to bear in mind when reading the rest of this book , or any other on physiological psychology . |
| 10 | One also needs to bear in mind that the effects of a change of pressure may not be instantaneous , but may become apparent later . |
| 11 | It gave me , I confess to you frankly , many hours of quiet grief , which I tried to bear with philosophy . |
| 12 | Obviously one has to bear in mind the general sizes ( and cost ! ) of boxes that are available , and not make the p.c.b . |
| 13 | The greater landowners would also employ other gentlemen servants in the management of their estates in the early eighteenth century , some of whom might be freeholders , and all of whom would have connections with the voting freeholders , and while it is true that some of these appointments were poorly paid , one has to bear in mind the comparative poverty of so many of the Scottish gentry in terms of money income . |
| 14 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 15 | A translator has to bear in mind the additional meanings that these forms can assume in a Japanese text . |
| 16 | But one has to bear in mind that it is always possible that you could have other materials for riding and so on . |
| 17 | The , the point as says , one has to bear in mind is that , okay , in general fostering are the successful parents , but the parents probably have more than one offspring . |
| 18 | One has to bear in mind that at the age at which McCausland was wireless operator/air gunner in the hostile skies over Italy , young men of the present day will be worrying about A-level results or first year at university . |
| 19 | Well , no , one has to bear in mind the type of situation , so power dressing as in it might be a tool but it 's very very professional . |
| 20 | I think sometimes people who do n't actually work in schools imagine that the schools are managed , in the financial organisational sense , by the Local Education Authority , and that in some way the head of the school is merely concerned with discipline , curriculum and so on , but one has to bear in mind that the sheer size of some of these schools now makes the head a manager in a very real sense . |
| 21 | This is only the latest in a series of issues which have emerged as computer technology has developed and linked up with telecommunications , and which appear to bear upon fundamental questions of individual freedom . |
| 22 | The consequences of his immorality have come to bear upon him , but he has no desire to reform the next generation : |
| 23 | Recommendations regarding placement will need to bear in mind not only a child 's existing abilities , but also the progress a child is likely to make in different educational settings . |
| 24 | But they may need to bear in mind the wish of some of their key workers to move in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | You do need to bear in mind that the figures vary from place to place . |
| 26 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 27 | Where the road starts to bear to the right , a surfaced road , with ‘ No Entry ’ signs , turns off to the left . |
| 28 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |
| 29 | COMPLETED FAMILY SIZE — The number of children ( live-born babies ) a woman has borne by the time she has reached the end of the childbearing age . |
| 30 | You can go into a shop and start purchasing this item not knowing your partner is there and the partner suddenly appears and then the confrontation starts bearing in mind you are not |