Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] of [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pan Am was getting a bad press — rightly so for its slovenly security at Frankfurt , but wrongly so for its attempts to establish the truth of how the bomb got aboard . |
| 2 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 3 | When he finally reached Marseilles , he expected to find the fleet of over a hundred ships which he had commissioned in advance . |
| 4 | A second , but also rare , situation in which an extended household could arise was when an elderly person was able to obtain the support of either an adult child or grandchild to continue living in his or her own home . |
| 5 | The court might be in a foreign country , there to try a citizen of yet a third nation , but it was her element and she was relieved to be back in it , even though she could take no active part in the trial . |
| 6 | These are all basic points , but it is still necessary to tackle the question of how the kind of speeds mentioned earlier can be achieved , and this involves more detailed consideration of the way the system should be designed . |
| 7 | Evading questions about how he proposed to resist the will of virtually the whole Arab and international community , he said that Lebanon had not gone through 15 years of civil war , and given thousands of martyrs , for the dishonourable settlement the world was offering . |
| 8 | It may be that the IRA , fearing informers , had gone to such lengths to restrict the knowledge of where the ‘ active service unit ’ was that it was unable to warn them that their presence was compromised . |
| 9 | Recognizing that selecting the fabric according to the house was producing outstanding results , Laura encouraged Jane Clifford to oversee the decoration of both a four-storey Victorian London house and a Cotswold stone farmhouse . |
| 10 | It would have been possible to have considered the Orpheus mosaics and a group of saltire mosaics , at the level of substantial affinity : in both instances there are similarities of content and decoration , where these similarities are not strong enough to suggest the presence of even a single craftsman who worked on more than one of the comparable mosaics . |
| 11 | It is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the link programme , but we believe it has helped to broaden the perspective of both the British and the Brazilian participants . |
| 12 | The conduct of the War required fiscal policies sufficiently egalitarian to appease the conscience of even the most austere socialist . |
| 13 | Moreover , no ruler had a title longer or more complex than that of the tsar ; and none was more ready to resent the omission of even the smallest part of it . |
| 14 | An appropriate compromise is for payments from the designated deposit account to require the signature of both the vendor 's and the purchaser 's lawyers . |
| 15 | Commonly they have to record two frequencies as most interventions employ response competition where it is desirable to record the frequency of both the undesirable prioritised behaviour and the competing behaviour . |
| 16 | On Nov. 7 the parliament voted to appropriate the property of both the Soviet and the Lithuanian Communist Party ( CP ) without compensation ( the CP had been banned in Lithuania from Aug. 23 — see p. 38373 ) . |
| 17 | In this way , they manage to give a picture of how the structural ambiguities of discourses of gender and the individual subject intersect . |
| 18 | Models too can be constructed to give a view of both the interior and exterior of a structure . |
| 19 | In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland . |
| 20 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 21 | Here the models were from chemistry rather than from history ; the idea was to give an account of how the parts of the organism were formed in embryology , and how they functioned in life . |
| 22 | This information was then transferred to a new map using Briggs ' Key to give an impression of where the second zone might possibly be ( fig 4 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Heshang ’ , translated as ‘ River Elegy ’ was written by three intellectuals , Su Xiaokang , Xia Jun and Lu Xiang who wanted to address the question of why the Chinese civilisation , once a world leader , declined so rapidly after the seventeenth century . |
| 24 | Recently signed to Gilles Peterson 's Talkin' Loud label at Phonogram , it 's here that they 've gathered to address the question of how the Great British music press is going to receive them . |
| 25 | But while the advocacy of many of these proposals drew upon long-term developments in social and political thought , it was the economic situation in the inter-war years which forced many to address the question of how the endemic problems of overcapacity in basic industries , structural unemployment and the evident failure of laissez-faire to preserve national prosperity could be overcome . |
| 26 | We then need to address the issue of how the funding will change if one authority is able to divest itself of certain fixed assets . |
| 27 | For example in an advertising agency discussion about a new campaign to revive a soft drink one person might be trying to solve the problem of how an old drink can be called " new " in any sense ; another person might be trying to solve the problem of how " old " can be made appealing ; arid a third person might be trying to solve the problem of designing a theme that will sell not to the public but to the marketing manager who has to okay the campaign . |
| 28 | To understand the behaviour it is essential to consider the question of how a cat faces death . |
| 29 | The conference was a welcome and vital opportunity for women and men , both black and white , to share information and their experiences , to use these to identify and challenge oppression and to begin to build a vision of how the personal social services might and can be different . |
| 30 | which is trying to accumulate a record of how the English language is used in everyday context , like lectures , like in broadcasts , like in people 's homes and so forth . |