Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he planning to restage the battle of Lepanto ? |
| 2 | And there is the factor that there is a need to diversify the economy of York generally erm and also erm to ensure that the new settlement has an employment component . |
| 3 | Notwithstanding attempts to diversify the production of commodities , Vietnam 's state-owned enterprises faced strong competition from private companies after losing their subsidy and monopoly rights . |
| 4 | Such greed can drive people to sacrifice the well-being of others . |
| 5 | It 's clear now , if it was n't clear then , that they were willing to sacrifice the well-being of schools , of their staff and pupils , for the glory of their leader and for national recognition of the then Councillor , as the most ardent of Thatcher disciples and ensuring for him another step towards that coveted safe Tory seat |
| 6 | In this case it 's a very , very minority group : all you guitarists out there prepared to sacrifice the price of an exceedingly tasty automobile on a place to store your guitar collection . |
| 7 | ‘ What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas [ of particular value to wildlife ] in order to protect the environment . |
| 8 | What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas in order to protect the environment . |
| 9 | The six month run there will be costly for Jenny , who had to sacrifice the opportunity of a starring role in a film to stay with the play . |
| 10 | It would be in order , for example , as Gandhi shows , to sacrifice the happiness of 49 per cent of mankind in order that the good of 51 per cent might be promoted . |
| 11 | Thus the law continues to sacrifice the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) to the supposed dictates of practicality . |
| 12 | This obviously requires the attendance of the witnesses at the trial , and a subpoena may be issued to compel the attendance of those who are within the jurisdiction or in some other part of the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | There are also powers to compel the attendance of witnesses by obtaining a witness order . |
| 14 | A witness summons should not be issued to compel the attendance of a child witness where this would be oppressive or damaging to the child 's welfare to an extent which would outweigh the legitimate interest of any other party to the proceedings ( R v Birmingham CC , ex pP [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 221 ) . |
| 15 | In response , Congress , in the 1974 Act , included provisions requiring the president to report impoundments to the legislature , making it possible for either the House or the Senate to compel the release of impounded funds , and obliging the executive to spend them in accordance with legislative intent . |
| 16 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 17 | They liked solving them , as he did , for the sufficient reward of achievement ; but also for power , and to compel the respect of their fellow-men , and to earn a name for skill and for courage . |
| 18 | This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows : |
| 19 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 20 | Erm first of all Chairman I would confirm that it is our view that with a provision of six thousand five hundred for Harrogate district , we do n't think we 'd be looking at a new settlement to serve our needs , erm , having said that , we support the Greater York strategy , and we we certainly the level of provision erm for Greater York as proposed by the County Council , er but leaving aside for one moment the issue of a new settlement , it is our view that we 'll be able to accommodate the level of growth that I think is anticipated in our district , erm , within the figures , and I 'm referring specifically to N Y one , and the table on the last page where there 's an indication there of the sort of of er housing numbers that would would have to be accommodated within Harrogate district , and and our part of Greater York is essentially a rural character consisting of a a number of small villages , so there there we have er a total figure of two hundred dwellings to be provided within our part of Greater York , that basically represents erm existing commitments and a a yield from small sites in the future , perhaps conversions , and we'r we 're quite happy with that . |
| 21 | Prior to sailing on its second delivery , Commander McGuinness toured the carrier and noted Wasp 's entire complement of F4F Wildcats parked on the open flight deck to accommodate the majority of the Spitfires in the enclosed hangar decks below . |
| 22 | As a mark of friendship with his second son , the Duke of York ( later George Vl ) , King George V granted Diana 's grandfather , Maurice Fermoy , the 4th Baron , the lease of Park House , a spacious property originally built to accommodate the overflow of guests and staff from nearby Sandringham House . |
| 23 | This report describes the construction of triple , pAcAB3 and quadruple pAcAB4 transfer vectors , to accommodate the insertion of three or four foreign genes into the baculovirus genome in a single cotransfection experiment . |
| 24 | There was no lack of change in Aberdeen 's team , though , with McKimmie replacing Winnie and Shearer being left on the bench to accommodate the return of Booth . |
| 25 | However , to satisfy the requirements of comfort , the back should curve ( in the horizontal plane ) to accommodate the back of the rib cage , and there should be no large obstruction to the positioning of the backbone . |
| 26 | At the Congress of Vienna they cut a semi-circle from one of the grand dining tables in the Hofburg to accommodate the King of Wurtemberg 's belly . |
| 27 | Added to this , while the bogus community invented to accommodate the closure of mental hospitals does not exist , another one actually could . |
| 28 | When this happens in reciprocal discourse , in face to face conversation , where the discourse develops by the exchange of speaker role , then the situation can be remedied ( given the impulse to co-operate and to accommodate the reality of the interlocutor 's world ) by an overtly interactive negotiation whereby intention and interpretation are brought into an approximate convergence as required by the purpose of the interaction . |
| 29 | Joe Mallon , Fumigation Technician assisted by Dougie Gray both from the Glasgow Central branch , ensured that the vehicles were correctly fumigated , and to accommodate the length of the cars a double size bubble ( 7m x 3.5m x 2.5m ) was used . |
| 30 | She closed her eyes and , with a little groan of defeat , parted her lips to accommodate the onslaught of his probing tongue . |