Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me explain for the benefit of viewers that a sump is like a U-bend in plumbing , permanently full of water , so that the only way through is to dive under the water . |
| 2 | I am afraid it is written in enviro-jargon , which will need translating into ordinary English or Welsh , but I hope it helps you think about the kind of issues that need to be got across in a popular television programme . |
| 3 | Let's think about the number of regions we have , the T & G have got seven , we 've got ten . |
| 4 | Now I 've got four letter Ps to do with the voice er and what I want to do is is think about the comparison of aspects of the voice when we have a normal one to one conversation and compare that with the same aspects when we 're making a presentation standing in front of a group . |
| 5 | Typical of the government 's hypocrisy , in Pink 's view , that it could bleat about the failure of exporters while at the same time putting every sort of obstacle in their path . |
| 6 | There is no point in denying them , even though we may justifiably quibble about the subjectivity of palaeontologists , the imprecision of the boundaries and the importance of the hidden gaps . |
| 7 | Thousands will demonstrate against the axing of jobs and ‘ vital ’ public services because of council cutbacks in London boroughs . |
| 8 | He has recently ventured into an export business and hopes this will flourish with the lifting of sanctions . |
| 9 | Within Photographic Department , for example , volunteers could assist with the filing of slides and prints , and with data entry for a photographic database . |
| 10 | As mass consumption , a particular array of objects may be found to represent and assist in the construction of perspectives relating to control over production or rivalry between consumers , but also to wider issues concerning morality and social ideals . |
| 11 | This should assist in the formulation of meetings and course programmes . |
| 12 | It did , however , assist in the concentration of bombers on route to the target and was invaluable in getting aircraft back in conditions of bad weather , GEE 's most important occasion was perhaps the 1,000-Plan , when nearly 1,000 aircraft passed through the target area in about 90 minutes , making Koln a watershed in the history of the British Bomber Offensive . |
| 13 | Comprehensive and accurate information on antecedent offences will assist in the prosecution of cases and in sentencing , and it will help the prison service to determine the appropriate prison regime . |
| 14 | By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes . |
| 15 | There is not much sign that the King did in fact profit from the sale of offices ; but others certainly could and did . |
| 16 | Certain performances that would qualify within the definition of plays are expressly exempted . |
| 17 | The important thing is that a gene for a stage in pathway 1 will flourish in the presence of genes for other stages in pathway 1 , but not in the presence of pathway 2 genes . |
| 18 | If so , does this case fall within the category of cases where reference to Parliamentary proceedings should be permitted ? 3 . |
| 19 | This does not fall within the class of cases in respect of which a corporation can maintain an action , but does fall within the second class commented on by Pollock C.B. in his judgment in the case of the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co . |
| 20 | His conclusion that the case did not fall within the class of cases involving unlawful demands colore officii is in line with what I consider to be the correct approach as enunciated by Isaacs and Windeyer JJ . |
| 21 | Unemployment steals from them the economic conditions which supported the new wave of feminism in the sixties and early seventies , but the welfare state , the provision of child benefit , minimal as it is , and supplementary benefit , mean they can survive in the absence of jobs and wages of their own . |
| 22 | The new Objective 4 would concentrate on the adaptation of workers to industrial change and changing production systems . |
| 23 | The research will concentrate on the use of crops to produce energy and fertilisers ; the development of human and animal vaccines to combat tropical diseases ; the improvement of fermentation techniques and the applications of genetic engineering in agriculture and food processing . |
| 24 | Nor will it concentrate on the panoply of improbabilities — orbiting battle stations , particle-beam weapons , deadly X-ray beams — beloved of star warriors in days gone by . |
| 25 | This chapter will focus on the capacity of children to use language as a vehicle for communication once they reach school age . |
| 26 | This chapter will , therefore , focus on the idea of instincts as developed by Freud . |
| 27 | I shall focus on the role of headteachers and how to deal with them in Chapter 7 . |
| 28 | The commercial marketplace , however , does not wait on the outcome of standards efforts , which are traditionally interminably slow processes . |
| 29 | Well , we ca n't wait till the end of Cubs or we 'll be too late going . |
| 30 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |