Example sentences of "was to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she was treated by a vet , it was to no avail . |
| 2 | The campaign was to no avail : the 90% grant was never received and the District 's Annual Report for 1960–61 was the last to mention the issue . |
| 3 | But it was to no avail — she was no nearer the McPhersons than when she 'd started . |
| 4 | Mandamus , in any case discretionary , he was told , would not issue to no purpose ; and it was to no purpose to suggest that there were any such grounds on which the enactment of parliamentary legislation could be resisted ( Ex p . |
| 5 | It was to no avail . |
| 6 | It was to no purpose , however , for Franco was no more inclined to negotiate now than at any time in the past year . |
| 7 | However it was to no avail : the Orcs swarmed across the river floating on broken timber beams and other debris . |
| 8 | Edward Bawden was one of those within the Academy who fought to have Minton elected , a fight which , as Bawden said , ‘ was to no avail there being a strong prejudice against his painting of the Death of Nelson ’ . |
| 9 | Her pleading was to no avail . |
| 10 | Now we find all that was to no avail , since nine times out of ten local authorities have pushed all thought aside of giving the relief . ’ |
| 11 | Tynedale 's home win against Birkenhead Park was to no avail as they finished second in North Division One , with Rotherham clinching the only promotion spot . |
| 12 | Latterly it was to a flat in Eaton Square where the army of friends , constantly replenished , continued to gather . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 14 | And when he died of drink in 1957 it was to a strangely quiet Press , considering that only just before his fall he was supposed to have the support of fifty per cent of his countrymen , according to the polls , and a power almost greater than the President 's . |
| 15 | Late Victorian Nonconformity was to a considerable extent a man 's religion . |
| 16 | To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ . |
| 17 | Thereafter progress was to a real parachute descent . |
| 18 | Settled land in Roman law was to a considerable degree free from the depredations of creditors . |
| 19 | He was to a certain extent an enigma . |
| 20 | ‘ But it was important for us to play together as much as possible , whether it was to a new crowd or just the same old people . |
| 21 | As for the ‘ Serbian question ’ , it was to a large extent created and turned into the cause of war by Serbia 's President Milosevic and his Hitlerian policy of ‘ all Serbs in one state ’ . |
| 22 | The move to Bernard Ecclestone 's Brabham was to a team which had a lot going for it — it was owned by the man who was consolidating his hold on FI and had an outstanding engineer in Gordon Murray — and one serious defect . |
| 23 | That the Church in the form in which it was re-established eventually survived the Puritan onslaught was to a large extent due to the philosophical and historical basis which was provided for it with formidable learning by Richard Hooker . |
| 24 | Orwell in his notes offers only the ghost of an answer when he remarks that Waugh 's loyalty was to a form of society no longer viable , ‘ of which he must be aware ’ . |
| 25 | Valeriy Kulishov , advisor to the Russian Minister for Culture on restitution matters and member of the Restitution Commission , told The Art Newspaper : ‘ The talk at the Dresden meeting was to a large extent about a legal basis , and the protocol of the meeting itself is a kind of ‘ framework ’ agreement . |
| 26 | The romance of the movies was to a significant degree an entrepreneurial romance . |
| 27 | Thus the pillbox garrison was immune to normal shell and machine-gun fire and was to a certain extent protected from the weather . |
| 28 | In certain circumstances German officers , too , were allowed to duel and membership of a good duelling club as a student was to a large degree a sine qua non for promotion in the higher German civil service . |
| 29 | The political press , directed as it was to a small , literate and politically informed public , did not aim to capture its readers with an entertaining and interesting package . |
| 30 | Britain 's rescue drew it deeper into the American orbit , though with the introduction of Marshall Aid to promote the economic recovery of Europe by means of financing balance of payments deficits , this was to a degree common to western European countries [ Milward , 1984 ] . |