Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both political and economic factors influence the AL of maintaining a safe environment to a very great degree . |
| 2 | All citizens have a responsibility to be involved in the politicoeconomic decisions which influence the AL of maintaining a safe environment — not necessarily for their own safety , but for the safety of others and especially for their children and , indeed , their children 's children . |
| 3 | It has thus been shown that both practice and ‘ maturation ’ influence the accuracy of pecking in chicks . |
| 4 | When the county council were given permission to station the mobile library on the car park , they met the cost of re-surfacing . |
| 5 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 6 | That was the logic of his moralism , as Canning had pointed out ; he met the charge of dealing in moral abstractions by recognising that slavery had damaged its victims and ‘ brutalized their minds ’ . |
| 7 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 8 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 9 | To my brother and me had fallen the task of disentangling our parents ' possessions from the original contents of the house . |
| 10 | He did n't measure up to Jones , the affair lacked the romance of having to follow a man around the world — perhaps even the bitter-sweet romance of uncertainty . ’ |
| 11 | We must stress the importance of reading the labels carefully before purchasing sweet food . |
| 12 | John MacGregor , the Secretary of State for Transport , said that the code would stress the importance of testing essential systems and of advising coastal states if a vessel is experiencing difficulties which could lead to pollution . |
| 13 | We would here stress the importance of giving plenty of rests to the double basses . |
| 14 | So that sounds as if you favour the idea of selling off shares . |
| 15 | In Tectonic Plates , he tackled identity and geography , inventing a theatrical vocabulary that fits the experience of straddling a number of different realities at the same time . |
| 16 | ‘ I am very pleased indeed that a quantity of equipment has already been sent by the Cheshire Fire Brigade to the fire department in St Petersburg and that the county fire officer is pursuing the possibility of extending the scheme with technical help . |
| 17 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 18 | Obviously she had realised the futility of luring Silas into a chalet which lacked a double bed . |
| 19 | It appears then that caterers have realised the importance of using the correct refrigeration equipment and of installing a series of temperature checks . |
| 20 | The government has at last realised the importance of preserving the eco system as a way to attract a new kind of tourist ( with more culture and money to spend ) who will see Gran Canaria not just as cheap holidays in the sun but as a living island . |
| 21 | Welcome to these two newcomers but meanwhile , ‘ old hand ’ Diane Bennett tackles the decision of buying a computer for the knitting machine , so do n't miss Oh Brother if you are about to do the same . |
| 22 | It was when he became aware of the dominance of some technique which emptied the art of meaning that he began to express scepticism over the art of the last decades . |
| 23 | It is difficult to see , for example , how the relation earlier/later can be made clear sense of without allowing the possibility of developing complexes , i.e. complexes which are not complete , but are rather in the " process of completion " . |
| 24 | The difficulties this attitude could cause the colonists were already becoming clear before William had completed the work of setting up governments in North America that would co-operate with him . |
| 25 | Leafing through the results of 13 years work — editor Lesley Brown and 25 assisstant editors have just completed the job of updating the shorter Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 26 | It follows that in my judgment the public law duties of the council were not discharged until they had completed the process of deciding on the suitable accommodation which they were obliged to secure for the plaintiff . |
| 27 | As Layton describes it , school chemistry became the ‘ easily organized and easily examined exercises in qualitative analysis … [ in which ] packets of powder were sent out [ to the schools ] and packets of paper were returned when the pupils had completed the routine of taking the solution through the charts ’ ; if anyone asked ‘ why ? ’ , ‘ training of the faculties of observation and reasoning ’ would doubtless have been the reply . |
| 28 | He would tour the world quietly preaching the gospel of surfing . |
| 29 | But Eubank also has a huge ego to feed , and Davies revealed : ‘ I know he 's always going on about money , but the truth is his main drive is pride — he hates the idea of losing . |
| 30 | He hates the thought of missing out on a big occasion . |