Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flaps stretched between the ailerons and fuselage centre-line , and enabled Fairey 's design team to surmount the problem of combining fighter ability with high lift and slow landing performance as demanded by a carrier-borne aircraft . |
| 2 | However , every Halls-run concert has first to surmount the hurdle of gaining sponsorship or underwriting . |
| 3 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 4 | ‘ To choose to do the work one wants , I suppose one will quite often have to renounce the idea of making a fortune . |
| 5 | Private indigenous entrepreneurs in Nigeria are still to cultivate the discipline of conserving more than they consume of their trade surplus and of re-investing such surpluses to expand the firm . |
| 6 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 7 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 8 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 9 | Keegan refuses to publicly condemn a competition that has already provoked a welter of criticism but has asked the Football League to re-examine the format of using Italian referees in England and vice-versa . |
| 10 | IBM promises to quicken the pace of publishing technical details on its systems network architecture ( SNA ( protocols . |
| 11 | To admit that much is not to foreclose the question of defining that relationship since a nuanced understanding requires the command of historical detail that Kemp provides . |
| 12 | The necessity for longer periods with individual readers has begun to affect the organisation of reading in the classroom ; the teacher finds that he or she needs more time . |
| 13 | This view of the reading process is beginning to affect the nature of listening to children read . |
| 14 | Yet its supporters could not fail to realize the possibility of attracting a section of the Liberal Party , which was still represented in the official Party . |
| 15 | but also notes that some such as Young ( 1974 ) have argued that geographers have failed to realize the potential of contributing to human ecology because they were overconcerned with environmental determinism . |
| 16 | We should be doing all that we can to promote the revival of singing , and we should encourage rather than stifle the musical creativity of those who write and perform . |
| 17 | In order to promote the idea of rebirthing , some K dealers are providing jars of babyfood and dummies to drive the point home . |
| 18 | ‘ This is a real opportunity to promote the idea of publishing first novels as paperback originals . |
| 19 | He took it upon himself to promote the idea of having a noble building for an Institute in Glasgow , and in this he was ably supported by brothers James and Edwin Docharty , sons of a famous Scottish painter , and a number of other deaf people of exceptional ability . |
| 20 | Increase the number of chartered Building Companies and continue to promote the benefits of employing such companies to clients of the industry.PS/C |
| 21 | It is essential for us to improve the funeral profession 's awareness of the benefits of embalming and I would urge that the Members of this Institute , through the offices of public relations continue to provide platforms to promote the Science of Embalming . |
| 22 | As she was already walking , she did more work in standing than she otherwise would have , to promote the feeling of taking weight through her left leg while keeping her spasticity under control . |
| 23 | What is wholly unacceptable is the denial of justice to the great majority of citizens who are not poor enough to qualify for legal aid but not rich enough to risk the costs of litigating an important public law issue in the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and perhaps the House of Lords . |
| 24 | It will have to embrace the role of detecting fraud , widen its responsibilities beyond the shareholders as a group , and spin off its audit regulatory role to an independent agency . |
| 25 | I 'm sure it 's a hard decision to make and I 'm happy in the knowledge that I will never have to carry the responsibility of deciding whether or not to deprive the chance of life . |
| 26 | To succeed under the Consumer Protection Act , the plaintiff would have to establish that in 1989 people generally were entitled to expect the gloves not to carry the risk of causing arthritis ( see paragraph 9–08 above ) . |
| 27 | When tougher controls eventually force these dumps to shut , the bigger companies fear , their operators will vanish , leaving the more reputable companies in the waste-management industry to carry the costs of cleaning up the mess . |
| 28 | Israel , he alleged , had selected Jordan as " the point through which to penetrate … the Arab Nation " and his country could no longer continue to carry the burden of confronting the Israeli threat alone . |
| 29 | According to the report , the overall net downgrading can be explained in part by the increased monitoring effort of the NRA and by the hot and dry summers of 1989 and 1990 , which in many areas reduced the amount of water available to dilute the inputs of contaminating waste . |
| 30 | The two hot , dry summers of 1989 and 1990 meant that there was a lack of water to dilute the input of contaminating waste . |