Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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31 In order to accommodate this the basement is now given over to office space while the ground floor continues to carry monographs and catalogues of Western art .
32 Now some of them used to find that a bit irksome .
33 NACAB increasingly deals with clients who have run up large bills on their credit cards only to find that the repayments crippling .
34 NACAB increasingly deals with clients who have run up large bills on their credit cards only to find that the repayments crippling .
35 Well , I think you 're going to find that an interesting experience .
36 Foreigners are always apt to find charming the examples they come across of quaint anachronisms , of dated anomalies , in English life .
37 I remember ghastly evenings when we sat round willing him to write half a line or finish a stanza and he could n't do it , it would n't come out .
38 In such cases students are required to meet half the minimum requirements for their final award before the Polytechnic recommends reinstatement of grant .
39 The seller offered to meet half the cost of repairing the dynamo .
40 And — even assuming he could persuade her to drink it — was n't it , well , out of the ordinary to find half a litre of bleach in someone 's stomach ?
41 On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form .
42 But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds .
43 Oh it was quite useful to find Half a Sixpence .
44 The young gentleman seemed to find this an amusing thought .
45 Anyone who enjoys this repertoire is likely to find this an attractive disc — not perhaps , as gemütlich as one would like in the Viennese numbers , but certainly possessing a certain straightforward charm of its own , even if at only 50 minutes it 's somewhat underfilled .
46 A total of £3,000 was needed and the player offered to provide half the amount if Tottenham would supply the other half , which they proceeded to do .
47 As an extension to its offer to provide half the cost of a microcomputer in every school , the department will back Prestel , British Telecom 's viewdata service , as a medium for carrying educational software .
48 In recognition of the need to separate funding for training and service , postgraduate deans will from next month have budgets to provide half the basic salary costs of all approved posts in the medical training grades in NHS provider units and trusts .
49 In Rome yesterday it was evident that the Gazza deal was doomed because Juventus who were to provide half the four million that was to have been Lazio 's down payment had gone cold on the deal .
50 To obtain this the lessor 's title must be strictly investigated and proved .
51 it was the Old Stager 's habit the while to extract half a marmite sandwich from a plastic bag and munch and snarl quietly while the great ones chatted .
52 Sloth faeces , estimated to contain half the leaf material , are returned to the ground around the trees : the three-toed sloth actually buries them !
53 But it is by mixing the personal and the cosmic in his reporting , just as the scientists mix them in their lives , that Mr Overbye has managed to write such a good book .
54 It gives no pleasure to write such a lukewarm report on these productions , for the Houston opera scene is probably livelier now than that of New York .
55 I hesitate to write such a critical letter , but frankly I am at a loss to see how your new design can in any way be seen as an improvement .
56 Nobody is better qualified to write such a tale than Trudi Pacter .
57 It is convenient to write such a relation in the form The first relation was proposed by Rivlin to describe rubber elasticity .
58 It was very good of you to write such a long letter , and I was most interested in what you told me .
59 Mildred leapt to the floor and sat there for a moment , reflecting how nice it was to be able to jump such an amazing distance without getting hurt .
60 It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion .
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