Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prophecy that the chief Ringwraith will not fall ‘ by the hand of man ’ , and his check when he realises Dernhelm is a woman , similarly parallels the Witches ' assurance to Macbeth and his disconcertment when told ‘ Macduff was from his mother 's womb/Untimely ripped . ’ |
| 2 | It would have been interesting to see the teachers ' reactions to questions about profits from burglary or tax evasion rather than investment . |
| 3 | A further concern is that some journals do not transmit the referees ' comments to the authors ; this wastes the referees ' time and fails to appreciate that they want to improve published articles not just act as gatekeepers . |
| 4 | The legal doctrine of legislative supremacy articulates the courts ' commitment to the current British scheme of parliamentary democracy . |
| 5 | The expert will seek the parties ' agreement to the principle and the cost of obtaining that outside assistance . |
| 6 | He said the decision to hold the meeting in North Wales demonstrated the Americans ' commitment to the area . |
| 7 | Mr Clayton drew the inspectors ' attention to a village in Argyll , Scotland , where power lines ran along the main street . |
| 8 | Most journals send the referees ' reports to the authors , and authors try to take them into account , assuming they are true . |
| 9 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 10 | They unanimously held that on its wording it limited the sellers ' liability to the cost of replacing the seed . |
| 11 | Sue Grayson Ford wants the Photographers ' Gallery to be the busiest place in London in terms of excitement , ideas , artists , photographers and audiences . |
| 12 | They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be . |
| 13 | They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be . |
| 14 | Colonial administrators began to restrict the natives ' access to species that could be killed for food by establishing reserves where hunting was only permitted under licence . |
| 15 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 16 | At the apex of the pyramid came the princes ' homage to the king — at least where they took it ( excluding therefore the counts of the far south and of Brittany , and the duke of Normandy after the breach of 1051 ) . |
| 17 | Many others are now being used effectively — for example , brief therapy models , behavioural change techniques , and gestalt — as the counsellors match the patients ' needs to therapy and not vice versa . |
| 18 | The summit was originally called by Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister and President of the Council for the first six months of 1990 , to discuss the Communities ' response to the prospect of German unification and to the rapid changes in the rest of Eastern Europe . |
| 19 | Each of the three most recent treaties between the Russian and Ottoman Empires ( Kuchuk Kainardji in 1774 , Jassy in 1791 , Bucharest in 1812 ) had shifted the tsars ' frontier to a new river on the north-western edge of the Black Sea ( the Bug , the Dniester and the Pruth ) . |
| 20 | There is no regulatory body to which people can go to exert the operators ' proposals to the necessary scrutiny in the public interest , particularly in the consumers ' interest . |
| 21 | For this reason schools will not emphasise failure to meet Compact goals , particularly in documents such as records of achievement , testimonials and references which are designed to aid the students ' transition to the adult world of work . |
| 22 | When , on 24 May , in a speech before the House of Commons , Churchill acknowledged the Allies ' debt to Spain for keeping open the Straits of Gibraltar , Franco naturally interpreted this as endorsement of his regime and , therefore , another international victory . |
| 23 | A £3,000 firework display , brass band and male choir will salute the Eagles ' return to the First Division . |
| 24 | One of Spiegelman 's boldest frames shows their bodies dangling among trees at one side of a wood that also holds , on the far side , the Spiegelman family car in which Vladek , 40 years on , recounts the girls ' story to his son . |
| 25 | In defence to a claim for that loss , the sellers sought to rely upon a contractual clause limiting the sellers ' liability to the cost of replacement of the seeds , i. e. the clause excluded the sellers ' liability for any consequential loss arising from ‘ use or failure in performance of or any defect in any seeds or plants supplied or for any other loss or damage whatsoever , ’ except for the cost of replacement of the seed . |
| 26 | She led a battle to keep local nursery schools open ( and won ) , campaigned for a skateboarding bowl for neighbourhood children ( now up for a community award ) and produced a Parents ' Guide to Oxford Pubs . |
| 27 | Draw the pupils ' attention to the parts of the word that cause the trouble ( see Basic strategies " A " and " B " ) . |
| 28 | McIllvanney arranged the girls ' visits to clients in the Bahamas and guaranteed their safety while they were in the islands . |
| 29 | They also show that political activity had by no means ousted the republicans ' commitment to armed force ; indeed it was seen as a necessary preliminary to the resumption of the military campaign . |
| 30 | Hence Carolingian diplomacy was not like modern international relations , where each state recognises the others ' rights to permanent existence and a defined territory . |