Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much higher up , an eighty-foot bamboo ladder precariously met the small square opening to the chiselled vault . |
| 2 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 3 | I presumed the countless minor mishaps to be part of any climber 's learning process . |
| 4 | Dot watched as her mother applied the shiny flame-red lacquer to each toe-nail . |
| 5 | Lord Minchampstead installs new steam-engines on his farms , enforces the new Poor Law to the letter , and will not give a farthing away in alms . |
| 6 | Anticipated savings of £50,000 in other Admin. areas bring the total expected savings to approximately £150,000 . |
| 7 | It has a chance to influence that power bloc , democratise its institutions , correct the many faults in the present European community institutions , bring the new financial centre to London , and ensure that the bloc is a benign institution , shouldering world problems and finding aid and defence solutions to them . |
| 8 | It took only a few minutes for the Doctor to break down and analyse the strangely oily powder , using the lateral molecular rectifier to be absolutely certain . |
| 9 | Given the traditional English attachment to the extravagant version of the judicial independence doctrine , it is perhaps not surprising that even these modest calls for reform should have fallen on deaf ears . |
| 10 | It is a short step from drawing the simplified skeletal figures to drawing a mannequin which may serve as a basis for the fully fleshed-out human being . |
| 11 | It is a short step from drawing the simplified skeletal figures to drawing a mannequin which may serve as a basis for the fully fleshed-out human being . |
| 12 | To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries . |
| 13 | The hot water cylinder supplies the domestic hot water to the taps . |
| 14 | ‘ It slows the autonomic nervous system to the barest limit of operation , but does n't affect the higher brain functions . |
| 15 | Similarly , the Hungarians became the principal external threat to the Christianized Germanic peoples of Europe in the late ninth and tenth centuries , particularly in conjunction with the Slavs ; and after the former 's defeat and settlement on the Middle Danube , it was a natural instinct of the Saxon rulers to draw them into the orbit of western Christian kingdoms . |
| 16 | The Ethiopian People 's Democratic Revolutionary Front ( EPDRF ) , an alliance between the TPLF and the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement , a smaller group operating in Wollo and Gondar provinces , became the main direct threat to the government in 1990 ; other groups under the EPDRF umbrella include the Ethiopian Democratic Officers ' Movement , the Oromo People 's Democratic Organization and the Afar Democratic Union . |
| 17 | Later , over their wine at the Franz Joseph , he would make the odd tactful comment to Busacher . |
| 18 | After he 'd placed the order , she then braved the dusty unmade roads to St Philip to deliver a second deposit , this time to the factory-owner personally . |
| 19 | On Feb. 20 , Germany offered to pay DM400 million towards UK war costs , bringing the total German contribution to allied costs to $12,000 million . |
| 20 | By phasing in HDMAC gradually , over a number of years , the European manufacturers hoped to time its introduction to take advantage of the increasing miniaturisation of some of the associated technologies , while avoiding the high costs associated with bringing the new digital technology to the market . |
| 21 | The sheer stolid , unimaginative common sense of the man ( stupidity , to his lively young mate Jukes ) brought the ship through appalling seas and produced the only possible solution to the confusion into which the typhoon had thrown the precious dollars of his Chinese passengers . |
| 22 | And they got the usual terse rejection-slip to that effect . |
| 23 | The only sad note was that I missed the second half and was given no credit for our victory , despite masterminding the whole tactical approach to the game . |
| 24 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 25 | It is the pendentive which represents the great Byzantine contribution to structural form and enabled the large domed structures of Europe , from Russia to southern France , to be built . |
| 26 | unc Now change the following improper fractions to mixed numbers . |
| 27 | He quite possibly made that catastrophe recede by denying the aggressive Chinese access to Russian secrets . |
| 28 | I bounced the bonny bicephalous back to Rex . |
| 29 | Small cottage industries , an hotel , the two public houses and the shop provide the only additional work to the farming industry now . |
| 30 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |