Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counselling was a completely new world to me and although in the past it had been suggested that to combat my periods of depression I might well think of having psychoanalysis , I am now glad I resisted . |
| 2 | I got a new diary , a big red one with a lock , to write my impressions of Disneyland . |
| 3 | The reason why caterwauling is associated with rutting is because it is most common then , the scent of the female on heat attracting males from far and wide and bringing them uncomfortably close together , so that they feel unusually inclined to vent their feelings of hostility towards one another . |
| 4 | In our interviews with teachers we were anxious to hear about the way in which they used the library and the project acquisitions and to establish their impressions of use made by their colleagues . |
| 5 | Less than half of those who left the commune proceeded to consolidate their strips of land , and of these only a quarter actually moved their homesteads out of the village . |
| 6 | For some purposes we do not need to know which modes of vibration are responsible for which IR or Raman bands , but sometimes we must go further , and assign the bands in the spectrum to particular modes . |
| 7 | We set out to establish which region(s) of c-Jun is phosphorylated by this kinase . |
| 8 | Interpreting the music well takes hours of listening to discover its subtleties of phrasing , rhythm and mood ; then more time should be spent on experimentation until the music and movement are so closely connected that the movement does n't work without its music . |
| 9 | Since all the members of the family made no attempt to hide their feelings of antipathy , Mathilde 's behaviour was in itself not particularly remarked on by those who packed the huge interior of Notre Dame : |
| 10 | Meeting this level of demand from indigenous energy resources is not a problem in Canada , currently a net energy exporter and certain to increase its exports of gas and coal in the future . |
| 11 | As a result , it decided to increase its exports of steel . |
| 12 | Likewise , if a male bird sings to court a mate , natural selection will only adjust the song to increase its powers of courtship ; the unambiguous informing of the female will be only incidentally relevant . |
| 13 | But , in the aggregate , they are unable to increase their holdings of bonds and they only succeed in driving up the price of bonds . |
| 14 | The Russians quickly agreed to increase their purchases of sugar . |
| 15 | I came across a number of cases where , in an attempt to increase their chances of employment , people had returned to college to try to get better qualifications . |
| 16 | Eyes down again to the book , he went on , ‘ All sharpened staves for use in traps ( and also spears and arrows ) can be hardened to increase their powers of penetration by being charred lightly in hot embers , a process which tightens and toughens the wood fibres . ’ ’ |
| 17 | Solicitors should remember to inform their clients of judgments and orders made against them at once . |
| 18 | To vindicate his years of sacrifice ? ’ |
| 19 | It is also important to establish what kinds of operation will have to be done at each stage , in case there is any question of allocating some operations to the keyboarders or indeed to built-in automatic systems . |
| 20 | The employees in such departments are often out of touch with changes in public opinion , relying instead on research data which may not be framed in a context most likely to discover what changes of attitude are occurring in consumer habits . |
| 21 | Further experiments have been carried out to discover what kinds of sounds a bird will learn to sing . |
| 22 | Even when no substantial physical remains have been found , archaeologists , using bodies of knowledge gained over many years , may have been able to infer what kinds of buildings may have stood on particular spots which show foundation-traces , and have rendered ‘ artists impressions ’ of what the structures probably looked like . |
| 23 | Physicalism is adopted as a regulative principle because physical objects provide the most familiar examples of ‘ things ’ ; physics is permitted to provide our standards of reality or thinghood . |
| 24 | You may have to convince your client that it is worth bearing part of the cost of an expensive expert if their input into the case is going significantly to increase your chances of success or the amount of the award . |
| 25 | Likewise , the financiers could be responsible to the company if they actively induce executives of the company to breach their contracts of employment , by encouraging them , for example , to release confidential information . |
| 26 | The defendants alone were sued for inducing/procuring the employees to breach their contracts of employment . |
| 27 | Even so , the IMF facility was often insufficient to meet the needs of countries requiring foreign currencies to support their rates of exchange . |
| 28 | SEASIDE anglers are fighting territorial battles to preserve their supplies of lugworms . |
| 29 | In addition , general cargo vessels depend upon shipping agents and loading brokers to fill out their cargo space and to issue their bills of lading . |
| 30 | INDEPENDENT firms will not be able to sell their versions of car parts such as panels , windscreens , bumpers and lights if plans by the EC Commission become law , it emerged yesterday . |