Example sentences of "[vb base] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They influence the education of children in enormously important ways , not just in terms of how many exams they pass , what results they get at O level or C S E , but on important issues such as education for democracy , the kind of climate that schools create for young people is very important in the way they see society and they see their role in it .
2 I abhor the use of drugs in sport .
3 While these pictures articulate the vision of directors like Alfred Hitchcock , Carol Reed , Michael Powell and David Lean , or writers like Noël Coward , Graham Greene , Emeric Pressburger and Harold Pinter , the films were made possible by production contexts that encouraged these talented individuals to engage with questions that others simply skated over .
4 How schools conceive the curriculum will affect not only the scope of changes entertained , but also the way they perceive the relationship between changes in different elements of the curriculum .
5 Wind the bobbin with 24-turns of 18s.w.g. enamelled wire , keeping it neatly in layers ( there are about 1½ layers involved ) and bring out the wire ends down through the bobbin slots in the positions shown in Fig. 8 .
6 Here Berkeley argued strenuously against the view that we judge the distance of objects by means of lines and angles .
7 On occasion , however , Alexandra would sometimes get her way and drag the Prince to services at the church she favoured , St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in Oxford Street , where she could enjoy being in the company of other deaf people , and be able to follow the services , as she was a fluent fingerspeller .
8 Review the multiplicity of language-games in the following examples , and in others : Giving orders , and obeying them .
9 Members of the profession working together with other professionals from the investment community , regularly review the classification of companies in the various indices and recommend changes and the creation of new indices as appropriate .
10 Review the use by employers of interim injunctions to stop disputes .
11 In this report we review the sequence of changes in liver allografts performed in a series of HBV surface antigen ( HBsAg ) positive patients , and described the clinical and pathological factors that seem to influence the course of recurrent HBV infection .
12 I naturally regret the loss of jobs by British Aerospace and other companies , not least those in my constituency .
13 A State with more than one official language may , if necessary under internal law , declare the language of Letters to be used in specified parts of its territory .
14 Such pessimism should not , however , discourage the imaginative computer work that is developing in many bureaux or deny the role of computers in profiling and statistical work , such as that discussed in Chapter 2 .
15 We evaluate the incident in terms of our own security .
16 ERR The number of errors against the media unit is not zero .
17 In a typical electrically-operated signal box of the kind the IECCs will replace , staff track the progress of trains on solid panels up to 90 feet long .
18 In another context Allen and Massey ( 1988 , p. 2 ) develop the notion of periods of structural change to describe this process , and one of the central questions around which this chapter is organized is whether the UK state has recently passed through ( or is still passing through ) such a period .
19 Mothers may threaten with ‘ Wait until I tell your father ’ and then load the father with tales of woe as he walks through the door in the evening .
20 Some manufacturers advocate the use of additives in the marine tank .
21 Modern communications make the diffusion of ideas in a largely literate population so rapid that Freud was undoubtedly a name more widely known in his own lifetime than was Newton 's a hundred years after his death .
22 Make the dumping of fridges with ozone-damaging chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) illegal , says a new report from Friends of the Earth UK .
23 ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years .
24 The ratio numbers quoted mean the number of turns of the propeller shaft for one turn of the road wheel .
25 For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has .
26 The opportunities to do so will depend on the extent to which there are formal decisions to be taken which involve the transfer of children from one bureaucratic status to another : from non-statemented to statement Ed ; from the register of a mainstream to a special school , or vice versa ; from full application of the National Curriculum to temporary or long-term disapplication .
27 More adequate pictures involve the depiction of theories as structured wholes of some kind .
28 As sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 implicitly recognise , these are powers of considerable constitutional significance , since they involve the imposition of conditions on persons who are engaging in otherwise perfectly lawful behaviour .
29 Where the supplies in the chain involve the movement of goods between member states , there is a potential requirement for suppliers in the chain to register for VAT in the country of destination of the goods .
30 A distinction can therefore be made between approaches to the study and application of geography that involve the analysis of systems on the one hand and the synthesis of facts and knowledge concerning sets of systems and related to particular places on the other .
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