Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " 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 However , the free flow of funds between national and international money markets ensures that key domestic interest rates influence the cost of funds .
3 We possess no worked example to illustrate how genes control behaviour ; all we can say is that , in abstract terms , proteins influence the development of neurons , and that genes must by this means influence the development of the nervous system .
4 But the identity which a region gives — through collective institutions such as its legal , educational and political systems — can not be provided by individuals alone , through the meanings which they attribute to their lifeworlds : ‘ In this respect the regions contain an explicit collective dimension which has relative independence , being continually reproduced by institutionally embedded power relations that influence the socialization of individuals ’ ( p. 139 ) .
5 Others influence the kind of jobs we can get , how much we 'll be paid , how we behave in public ( and even in private ) and how we spend our time and money .
6 Hormones of the adrenal cortex influence the behaviour of lymphocytes , the white blood cells involved in the development of immunity : the adrenal hormones , and synthetic related substances have been found useful in the control of those leukaemias which are , in effect , tumours of lymphocytes .
7 To what extent does low status influence the work of women teachers ?
8 A country like Romania could ‘ considerably influence the course of events ’ .
9 Inadequate capital resources , insufficient euro-currency intermediation profits or worries over loan exposures influence the willingness of banks to accept and lend funds .
10 As Table 8.2 shows , there are many silvicultural techniques that can improve productivity ; all influence the structure of forests and are thus agents of environmental change .
11 The raw material of events is processed ( selected , edited , dramatised , presented ) by the professionals who run the media ; ultimately it is their values which influence the version of events the public receives ( Edwards , 1979 ) .
12 In particular the study will be investigating whether different types of merger ( e.g. horizontal ) influence the distribution of gains and losses between the shareholders of the companies which instigate the merger or takeover and the shareholders of the companies which are taken over .
13 They influence the outcome of discussions and persuade others of their point of view more than women do .
14 Other temperamental differences influence the training of dogs .
15 I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with .
16 I abhor the use of drugs in sport .
17 My own favourite rests with David Hill 's Hyperion recording with Westminster Choir , mainly because I favour the sound of boys ' voices in this most pure of works .
18 Increasingly , American expatriates are finding themselves returning home and , as part of the same process , many US executives have found opportunities with European and other foreign firms based in the USA who also favour the employment of nationals .
19 Dutch haulage companies favour the introduction of tolls rather than rush-hour levies .
20 The show , featuring The Amazing Mr Lifto , Slug The Sword Swallower and Mat The Pharmacist amongst others , plays Bradford University and London 's Clapham Grand , not The Astoria , as previously reported .
21 The story of how such a principle was accepted by a war-time coalition government and why it was implemented in the form that it was in advance of all the other social security changes , is a useful illustration of the ways in which particular problems gain the attention of governments and how one social policy can be seen and adopted as at least a partial solution to those problems .
22 When you push the chair down kerbs or ramps it is safest to go down backwards , as the patient might fall out of the chair if he is facing forwards as the chair tilts downwards .
23 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 .
24 Be able to select from the calculator display the number of figures which is appropriate to the context of the calculation .
25 Marie Hegarty , head of the business department , said : ‘ Whether it is for pleasure or profit the care of horses requires a considerable commitment in time and money .
26 Tear the paper into bits , and flush it down the toilet .
27 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 .
28 Others perceive the world in ways difficult for us to even imagine .
29 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 .
30 Through his desire to impart a feeling of an " organic whole " Unwin upset the separation between houses which characterised the Victorian suburb .
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