Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [coord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are able to become objective observers of the patterns of play and to take pleasure in their endless variations on central themes . |
| 2 | Know-how is all important — and it is quite typical for a deputy head following an advanced part-time degree in education management to sigh with relief at the start of a module about , for instance , the management of assessment and to say that this was precisely what his head — with an eye mainly on the short term — hoped he would get out of the course . |
| 3 | The manager 's task was to remain up to date with the changes , to encourage a confident understanding of the purpose and methods of assessment and to make sense of the ambiguity which surrounded questions of parental and governors ' access to the assessments . |
| 4 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 5 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 6 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 7 | There an attempt was to be made to reach agreement on the date of Easter and to end the discord between Egypt and Rome on the one hand and Syria and Asia Minor on the other . |
| 8 | As a PLC we would have the greater freedom and flexibility vitally needed to match the increasing pace of change and to provide new or different services — and we can not afford to be too slow or too late . |
| 9 | But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are . |
| 10 | The group , along with the NIH chapter of Blacks in Government ( BIG ) , wants the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help solve the break-in and wants NIH to act promptly to resolve the complaints of discrimination and to punish those responsible . |
| 11 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 12 | Having criticized the limits of the antiracist account of racism , this is an appropriate point at which to explicate my own conception of racism and to indicate why I think it is more persuasive ( cf. |
| 13 | As an analytical philosopher Honderich is keen to explore the logic of Conservatism and to demonstrate that it has none , but at the same time he engages with the history of Conservative ideas . |
| 14 | Adenauer in 1955 proceeded to set up a Ministry of Defence and to create a new Bundeswehr , whose first members joined up in November . |
| 15 | The agrarian reform had done much to improve the efficiency of agriculture and to ameliorate living standards among the peasantry . |
| 16 | Scheduling is designed to protect a monument from any kind of damage and to control any necessary works to it . |
| 17 | There are a variety of methods of attachment but to ensure a tight connection ( which is essential ) the inhaul rope should be tied when the boom is parallel to the mast so that when swung down to its normal position it tightens the rope . |
| 18 | Considering himself throughout a true Catholic , Henry had been reluctant to enter into close association with foreign Protestant states , and when political necessity had induced him to consider allying with the German Lutheran princes in the 1530s , he had adamantly refused to accept their confession of faith or to view them as co-religionists . |
| 19 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 20 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |
| 21 | Secondly , where an exemption clause is not invalidated by section 2 , the buyer may be able to sue the seller for breach of contract and to defeat the exemption clause by virtue of sections 6 or 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 22 | Changes in the structure of the work-force ( greater concentration into single industries and decline of artisanal activity , especially after the First World War ) also tended to reduce the relevance of anarchism and to leave a vacuum for Marxist ideas . |
| 23 | This forms an effective revision medium , enabling the teacher to identify areas of difficulty and to quantify the assimilation of information in the pupil 's own knowledge structures . |
| 24 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 25 | Other members of staff could also refer to the record to ensure the relevance of teaching and to avoid duplication . |
| 26 | Some guidance was provided to teachers completing the questionnaire in order to familiarise them with the HMI eight areas of experience and to agree meanings of terms such as ‘ concept ’ and ‘ skill ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race . ’ |
| 28 | There are several ways in which the Bank of England can seek to control the supply of money and to influence credit conditions . |
| 29 | The challenge for the chief executive of such a sprawling firm is to introduce a clear sense of direction and to get sales and profits to grow faster than the American , and preferably the world , economy . |
| 30 | Special programmes must be provided where needed to address the problems that refugees face through their past circumstances to give them equality of opportunity and to avoid eroding their talents and initiative . |