Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second possible practical application of algebraic laws is for transforming programs to improve their efficiency in some way . |
| 2 | The computer programming language Logo , in particular , has been presented as an ideal medium for allowing children to develop their thinking skills . |
| 3 | A strategy for improving teaching has not one but two components : not only must there be an effective means for helping teachers to change their practice along the lines required , but the preferred approaches to teaching must be coherent , defensible and demonstrably capable of securing a quality of learning superior to that available previously . |
| 4 | Following the immense popularity of Goldman 's analysis of the problems facing RE in the 1960s ( Goldman 1964 ; 1965 ) , the emphasis on moral education was given a partner , that of life-themes — general topics which could be seen in greater depth through helping pupils to appreciate their symbolic use within religion . |
| 5 | Anxiety management training is about helping clients to understand what is going on , then teaching them skills to cope with anxiety , then encouraging them to put themselves deliberately into situations which create anxiety but with which they cope successfully . |
| 6 | For example , though he made a number of proposals to increase public participation his overriding concern for expediting procedures forced him to compress these into a impracticable time-scale . |
| 7 | It is suggested that the court would not order a new lease to contain a contractual option to renew , since the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 itself contains the code for enabling tenants to renew their leases . |
| 8 | But now he was with Endill he felt safe and ran about opening doors to see what was beyond them . |
| 9 | True , too , Bosnia 's Serbs have won as much land as they want ( though in the territories they control ethnic cleansing continues : about 1,000 Muslims or Croats are leaving northern Bosnia every week , it is reported , after signing papers to say they are going voluntarily ) . |
| 10 | After spending years making his name in northern clubs , his big break came on TV 's Opportunity Knocks in 1967 . |
| 11 | His grandmother telephoned the local radio station after hearing callers express their distress over the murder . |
| 12 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 13 | Elsewhere Jesus avoids such claims , and in the story of the temptation Jesus resisted the idea of using miracles to prove who he was , or what he had come to do . |
| 14 | Some people like the idea of using weights to toughen their bodies . |
| 15 | But some children , either through their experience of using tantrums to get their own way or through general strong will and temperament , will take a lot of teaching and repeated experiences to realize finally that they can not always get their own way . |
| 16 | And then , if I have achieved the aim of helping teachers understand their predicament , I hope that they may feel more purposeful , both individually and collectively , and thereby become a more powerful source of ideas and projects for the improvement of schooling , which are grounded simultaneously in a clear sense of educational values and an equally clear-sighted , hard-headed sense of what is possible and appropriate . |
| 17 | Ways of helping patients modify their attitudes are discussed below . |
| 18 | While this might have been expected , neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources . |
| 19 | A few authorities , however , have long had a formal policy of allowing parents to see their children 's school records , and individual schools have sometimes had an open files policy and reported beneficial results to the motivation of pupils and relations with parents . |
| 20 | During these same months , Henry was also pursuing an alternative strategy to obtain the annulment by sending his agents to rifle through archives in England and on the continent in the hope of uncovering precedents to support his claim that the pope had no right of judgment over his marriage . |
| 21 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 22 | Renewed commitment to child welfare had the initial effect of inducing parents to desert their offspring at an even faster rate . |
| 23 | Although such examination might improve the drafting of the rule books — and that would be ( procedurally ) beneficial — it could have the unfortunate and fundamental consequence of inducing tribunals to determine what is or is not a fair dismissal by reference to what has been agreed between the parties instead of by the yardstick laid down by Parliament . |
| 24 | He thought of the flares bursting like orange plums in the soot-black night , illuminating the trucks , the humped tanks , the upflung arms of waking men shielding their eyes from the glare . |
| 25 | But even thus narrowly defining ‘ housework ’ , the women 's movement is ambivalent ( to say the least ) about the notion of paying women to do it . |
| 26 | Essentially , ABA is a way of analysing situations to determine which events ( antecedents ) generally occur before problem behaviour and which events ( consequences ) generally occur afterwards . |
| 27 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 28 | Another target that one designer is pursuing is ‘ screen animation in geometry as a means of getting children to say what they see ’ . |
| 29 | If a pitch was turning more at one end than the other , we would offer it to Tuffers to enhance his chances of getting wickets to push his Test claims . |
| 30 | Yet it is very much less easy to defend the policy of expecting parents to buy their children 's books . |