Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ladies could make little sense of them in terms of their norms of dress . |
| 2 | Moscow was abandoned , but Napoleon could make little use of its capture — especially since nine-tenths of the old capital was burned to the ground . |
| 3 | Could she really disregard that side of his nature which was so repellent to her ? |
| 4 | But what use are visions if you ca n't transcribe them so others can make some sense of them ? |
| 5 | How can we make some sense of it ? |
| 6 | I and a few others who only that morning had begun to look forward to a peaceful summer ahead , swiftly concluded that we must make some gesture of our own in order to demonstrate the feelings of many of our fellow conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 7 | This name suggested that the capital 's citizens might make some use of it . |
| 8 | Differences in sample characteristics may explain some part of it ( for instance in Ipswich the action samples contained a higher proportion of heavily dependent people who went straight into institutions after their referral to the psychogeriatric service ) . |
| 9 | New drugs and agrochemicals are often developed by direct modification of an existing compound to mimic or enhance some aspects of its biological behaviour . |
| 10 | Do you know that page of yours from upper and lower cases on display in the Design Museum , that looks very well there — apart from the fact that you can read it from across the room . |
| 11 | It is perhaps a feature which could be added to many of the existing railways in some way so that the many enthusiastic photographers can enjoy that aspect of our hobbies without some of the restrictions that are presented today ? |
| 12 | And since I know what the proposition means , I must know each constituent of it . |
| 13 | It concluded its deliberations with a series of ringing statements on the desirability of a united Europe , with some common institutions , within which ‘ the European states must transfer and merge some portion of their sovereign rights so as to secure common political and economic action for the integration and proper development of their common resources ’ . |
| 14 | There will probably be times , when you are at school , that they will be in charge of him so it 's very important they should enjoy this part of his education and development , too . |
| 15 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
| 16 | He meant , that I should make such fun of him . |
| 17 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 18 | Reynolds looked at the title of the piece , but he could n't make much sense of it . |
| 19 | You do n't usually make much secret of it , do you ? |
| 20 | ‘ Was it possible , ’ I wondered , ‘ to find a drug that could give each side of my character its own separate face and body ? ’ |
| 21 | The child who is encouraged to be a self-respecting individual , however , will carry that impression of himself forward into adulthood and will find that others respond to him as someone worthy of their respect . |
| 22 | Even so , Clarke concedes that every A&R man would probably give that image of himself . |
| 23 | Well , he 's doing it , last wee I would n't mind doing the Wednesday actually cos I can do that sort of you know , student discos , you know , so |
| 24 | You need not feel your hands tied — if you can bring that prince of yours and his armies victorious into Shrewsbury over my body in fair fight , go do it , and I 'll never cavil . |
| 25 | And I would not give another year of my life to a new version , he wrote . |
| 26 | I 'm gon na do the list what you 've got ta get and then I 'm gon na do another list of what we 've got to before tomorrow . |
| 27 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 28 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 29 | Instead of just describing and classifying the orchids , he could give some explanation of their appearance . |
| 30 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |