Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Common sense ( or observation ) may show that the pattern of behaviour requires the forecaster to give progressively less weight to values the further back in time they occur . |
| 2 | But Allen was only wrong in that the price collapsed suddenly to ls a pound . |
| 3 | And if shortages or surpluses are general across the market this will be immediately apparent and indicate to GEMMs a need to adjust quoted prices . |
| 4 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 5 | And , smiling , proceeded to tear to shreds the web of magic last night had spun . |
| 6 | Alternatively they may devise their own format for indicating to students and to moderators the way in which the student has achieved marks for each individual assignment . |
| 7 | The second relates more to skills the application of that knowledge , practical , oral and investigative , which figures in some examinations to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 8 | According to experts the other trick … is just to slow down . |
| 9 | From Africa it was noted in one or two cases , that some visitors who came from extremely distressing and confined situations found it hard to offer to groups the ‘ hopeful and inspiring ’ messages so often hoped for and expected . |
| 10 | At a time the stress is reduced to times the original value and this characteristic time is known as the relaxation time τ . |
| 11 | What one British envoy called the ‘ crazy constitution ’ of the United Provinces thus appeared to contemporaries a poor advertisement for any form of government which attempted to escape from the conventional pattern of monarchy . |
| 12 | Later events , such as the devastation of East Prussia by Russian troops in 1758 or the terrible slaughter which followed the storming of the Turkish fortress of Ismail in 1790 in which some 30,000 were killed , underlined to contemporaries the freedom from conventional restraints which characterized warfare in Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | Faraday seemed to contemporaries an experimental genius , thinking with his fingers ; he was thus a splendid example of Baconian philosophy in action . |
| 14 | I used to go out to clubs a lot . |
| 15 | What has certainly decreased over the years is the proportion of analyses made by qualified statisticians ; the computer has brought to researchers an era of ‘ do-it-yourself ’ . |
| 16 | The Board is recommending to shareholders a final dividend of 7.1 pence per ordinary share making a total dividend for the year of 10.3 pence compared with 9.65 pence last year . |
| 17 | The greater the return to shareholders the more attractive it will be to invest in the company and hence the higher the valuation of the company in the view of the Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | Write so that he can not twist your meaning so as to make you agree to opinions the opposite of those you hold . |
| 19 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
| 20 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 21 | Andy Kerr the scorer … 4-3 to Wanderers the score … |
| 22 | Andy Kerr the scorer … 4-3 to Wanderers the score … |
| 23 | Instead they zap , electrocute , maim , impale and cut to smithereens an endless range of human figures on their electronic games . |
| 24 | To westerners the martial arts may look aggressive . |
| 25 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
| 26 | To coordinate and make available to schools the services and expertise of the County Inspectorate , the Visual and Aural Aids Service and the County Library . |
| 27 | The newest method of converting hand movements to signals the computer can understand is called Trickstick . |
| 28 | Convenient to the Hazel Hotel , and to shops the studio is situated only 50 minutes from Dublin . |
| 29 | The fall in the real wage rate to raises the demand for labour to and ( perhaps ) reduces the supply of labour to . |
| 30 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |