Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Alcuin he was devoted to the pursuit of learning from his earliest years , a wise man who was both king and teacher . |
| 2 | It is therefore a very powerful dating technique making it possible to date the right archaeological samples ( see p. 144 ) to the year of felling , as well as providing the accurate calendar timescale necessary for radiocarbon calibration . |
| 3 | If the date is to be precise to the year of felling , the bark must also be present , otherwise an estimate must be made of the number of missing rings corresponding to likely wastage by the carpenter . |
| 4 | He foresaw that their success would lead to the overthrow of learning in the universities , the neglect of civil law , and indeed to anarchy . |
| 5 | And , since he seems to attach importance to the language-game of giving orders and obeying them , let us begin there . |
| 6 | If it passes on lower costs to its customers in the form of lower prices it may be open to the accusation of behaving in a predatory fashion . |
| 7 | This refers to the tendency of attributing human motives to social institutions , in this case of thinking about organisations as if they were pursuing the goals in question . |
| 8 | It aims to show that closely related to the objective of resurrecting conservative social policies is a political method which involves an attempt to change Britain 's political landscape . |
| 9 | They have drawn attention to the injustice of exempting husbands but not cohabitees . |
| 10 | There has been an undercurrent of anxiety about the hospitals for many years and lip service has been paid to the idea of replacing them with community hostels . |
| 11 | Being a lazy lad , much given to the idea of rising late when given half a chance , he had delayed his arrival in the world until 1 January . |
| 12 | As we are committed to the idea of providing general managers with a progression of learning opportunities , we have designed our programmes to match these needs . |
| 13 | One of the more unprofessional results of the plague was that some priests latched on to the idea of leaving the parochial ministry and becoming chantry priests — often , in the process , gaining a lucrative return for very little work . |
| 14 | Many young people are now attracted to the idea of producing a large part of their own food . |
| 15 | Similar to the idea of producing remedies from disease processes which can then be used to treat the effects of that disease is the idea of potentizing individual substances to counteract allergies and sensitivities to them . |
| 16 | Four hundred artists represented in the museum 's collection have responded to the idea of producing a greetings image on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper . |
| 17 | After a full history is taken , physical examination performed and a round-table discussion held in which cause and effect may be established , old myths abolished , points of ignorance removed , and communication between the partners opened up , the couple are introduced to the idea of learning more about each other 's sensual responses generally . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , practically all the rules have exceptions and readers may feel that the rules are so complex that it would be easier to go back to the idea of learning the stress for each word individually . |
| 19 | ‘ People have very quickly got used to the idea of crushing their cans and putting them in the special bins provided . |
| 20 | The operative adapts to the idea of saving time and bonus calculations are greatly simplified . |
| 21 | According today 's Scotland on Sunday Newspaper , Hearts and it 's Chairman Wallace Mercer are coming round to the idea of sharing a ground with Hibs on the site the council wants , at Ingleston . |
| 22 | Scientists examining alternative approaches are attracted to the idea of using molecules that are chemicals designed to assemble themselves into a film . |
| 23 | It is necessary to win over the negotiators to the idea of using such a computer model , and resistance is likely to focus on the idea that negotiating is a matter of judgement and can not be mechanised . |
| 24 | He seemed greatly recovered , and resigned to the idea of using what the church so obligingly had offered . |
| 25 | As compared with the way in which computing is usually taken out of the hands of machinists when CNC machine tools are introduced , consideration was given in the optical company to the idea of persuading the operators who cut the surfaces of the lenses to do some of their own computing , and even to the idea of installing computing facilities in the surfacing room itself . |
| 26 | Her touch was so persuasive he almost succumbed to the idea of entering her again , taking her anonymity as carte blanche and indulging in the darkness every last desire he could dredge up . |
| 27 | Maddock reports that most firms are hostile to the idea of moving people between civil and military sectors : ‘ There already exists a large culture gap and it is getting even wider . ’ |
| 28 | The English attached themselves to the idea of privatising the operator in its entirety . |
| 29 | It is likely that Amin 's known opposition to the idea of establishing Soviet military bases on Afghan soil influenced the Soviet decision to remove him from power . |
| 30 | It was partly Szarkowski 's influence in the early 60s , which broadened collectors ' minds to the idea of buying photographs which were other than self-consciously fine art . |