Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also powers to compel the attendance of witnesses by obtaining a witness order . |
| 2 | Thus when Hollar asks him to smuggle his thesis out of the country and proposes a solution to Anderson 's ethical objections ( " But if you did n't know you were smuggling it " ) , his determination to preserve his negative face is demonstrated by the fact that he interrupts Hollar 's proposal in order to uphold the maxim of quality at the expense of the maxim of agreement ( 'smuggling implies knowledge " , ( p. 56 ) ) . |
| 3 | I have also made available to local authorities resources to enable the level of expenditure per council house to be maintained and to enable further measures to be taken to tackle the problems of homelessness and dampness in council housing . |
| 4 | On Sept. 9 an official from the French Ministry of Economy and Finance announced that France would help Congo to pay off debt arrears owed to international financial institutions in order to enable the resumption of co-operation between Congo and these bodies . |
| 5 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 6 | To isolate these sequences we used the enzyme T 4 DNA polymerase which has been shown to enable the isolation of telomeres with virtually no loss of telomeric DNA ( 30 ) . |
| 7 | The cost of developing new generations of chip technology are so high that collaboration is increasingly the order of the day , and Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have decided to join forces on the development of logic process technology to enable the production of microprocessors with 5m to 10m transistors on a single chip by 1995 . |
| 8 | It was hardly flattering , with its account of the miserable climate — the vehement cold and the winds — and the forbidding landscape , with many rough mountains ( for it was to be another two centuries before Rousseau was to alert the attention of Europe to the beauty of mountain scenery ) . |
| 9 | And thirdly , we ask you to affirm the call of Peter for praying for in the ministry . |
| 10 | The strength of the Crown during the Tory Reaction was to a large degree dependent on the fact that Charles II was at last prepared to wear the mantle of King of the Anglicans , and he was very careful in soliciting their support . |
| 11 | Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level . |
| 12 | The year 1475 was to prove crucial for the recovery of cloth exports , as the Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanse and the Treaty of Picquigny with France did much to restore the level of exports in the latter years of Edward IV 's reign ( 94 , pp.26–9 , 34–6 ) . |
| 13 | In the case of three to five pixels being ON this was later refined to attempt to restore the continuity of lines through the point , by considering the four pairs of opposite pixels in the same 3 × 3 square surrounding it . |
| 14 | However , the Central Council recognized in April that a franchise change could not now be avoided , but resolved to support it only if the government would agree to restore the House of Lords at the same time . |
| 15 | Failure to optimise the level of support to the caring team will undermine efforts to distribute annual leave evenly among nurses . |
| 16 | An objective judgement can then be made on how to operate in such a way as to optimise the level of risk on a day–to–day basis . |
| 17 | A critical problem during design was how to optimise the allocation of memory to Oedipus . |
| 18 | I need say no more , except to underline the naivety of those who are prepared to champion the humanism of Marx in his attack on capitalism without recognising the inhumanism of Marx in proposing the socialist solution . |
| 19 | The Committee will remain in being to monitor the progress of compliance until 1995 , when a new body will be launched , perhaps with a much wider brief . |
| 20 | The researchers intend to monitor the progress of cases through the various legal stages . |
| 21 | The policy of openness in international relations and the limiting of secret agreements300 enables States to monitor the performance of agreements to which they are not parties . |
| 22 | First , it would be necessary to monitor the quantity of pollution of each firm in order to assess its tax liability . |
| 23 | A UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman denied that the UK had a responsibility to monitor the composition of Exco after 1997 . |
| 24 | Another test for postsynaptic changes is to monitor the sensitivity of neurons to the application of agonists before and after the induction of LTP . |
| 25 | ‘ This led to a tightening up of the law and Knowsley 's environmental health and trading standards officers will continue to monitor the sale of food in the borough to ensure that it is as safe as the public rightly expects it to be . ’ |
| 26 | It repeals a duty conferred on them by the existing regime to monitor the wholesomeness of water in their areas . |
| 27 | ) Because accounting reports are used to monitor the allocation of resources in the economy , they should all be on the same basis . |
| 28 | Walpole , it is true , kept out of wars and was able to cherish the prospect of reduction from the Sinking Fund established in 1717 . |
| 29 | The aim of the bill was to curb the sale of firearms to convicted felons ( by allowing police seven days in which they might , but were not compelled to , check the criminal record or mental health of a potential purchaser ) , and to impose a " cooling-off " period for would-be purchasers . |
| 30 | COMPUTER hacking should be outlawed by three new criminal offences to curb the use of computers for serious crimes and maintain confidence in computer systems , the Law Commission recommended yesterday . |