Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So had the cheerful chat and bustle that had formed the barely noticed background to our conversation . |
| 2 | On 5 January the Metropolitan Museum will be opening a newly renovated gallery to be devoted to the display of prints , drawings and photographs , to be known as the Robert Wood Johnson Jr . |
| 3 | The Pelješac peninsula provided an easily defended rampart to the north , and the screen of islands protected the central zone in which the city itself lay . |
| 4 | But Cleo had only laughed at his insults , and later added the scornfully thrown coins to her collection in the stocking drawer . |
| 5 | The borrower passes the newly created deposit to the seller of the goods who is willing to take it in payment . |
| 6 | The enthusiasm of both Margery Kempe and Richard Rolle for adopting a life-style which would itself openly express a response to God 's love as revealed in the Incarnation and their desire to teach others of this , betrays a deeply felt response to Franciscan teaching ; while Walter Hilton 's beautifully structured account of the progress to essential human fulfilment as inward discovery of the reality of Christ incarnate dying to sin but rising in love , one in heart and mind with God , places Walter Hilton squarely in the tradition of the theology of the Augustinian friars . |
| 7 | Christie 's are hoping that this will provide a much needed fillip to the subject . |
| 8 | First restored in Devon by Buckfastleigh-based volunteers and staff of the 80064 Locomotive Group from Barry scrapyard condition during the 1970's , the engine will provide a much needed boost to the SDR 's expanding loco fleet . |
| 9 | They gave copies to selected show visitors — forwarding a specially bound copy to the Prince of Wales — and pasted copies on the door of an adjoining box . |
| 10 | In November I made a much delayed return to the Swanage area after a ten year absence . |
| 11 | Although this octamer binding site is perfectly conserved in the URR of the tumorigenic viruses HPV 16 and HPV 18 , inspection of the equivalent region in the URR of HPV 6 and HPV 11 , which cause only benign condylomatous warts , revealed a much reduced homology to the octamer motif , although the NFI site remained intact ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 12 | I definitely think we 've found a niche , not just in a business sense , but in the sense of providing a much needed service to dog owners , and I think we all need some helpful service nowadays , rather than being told to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 13 | They were content to stay in the back-streets of our towns making their own coffins and providing a much needed service to a community which was either unqualified , unwilling or unable to extend to such outrageous luxuries . |
| 14 | He has provided a much needed corrective to the over-individualistic approach to conversion which has been characteristic of many western evangelists and missionaries . |
| 15 | An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature . |
| 16 | He sat up , naked and at ease , handing the swiftly discarded T-shirt to her from the floor , watching while she scrambled self-consciously into her clothes with an expression that Robyn did n't dare to read . |
| 17 | Costs in the north are much lower and local lawyers have bred a hard nosed approach to business . |
| 18 | A system whereby gross contributions to the EC budget have a well defined relation to relative incomes , even without progressivity , would be a major step in matters of budgetary harmonisation . |
| 19 | They will be on sale with many other tasty offerings in Bartholomew Square , when the Dieppe Street Market makes a much awaited return to the festival . |
| 20 | The track crosses the bridge over the Sillees River and then the scenic forest drive to follow a well marked way to Melly 's Rock . |
| 21 | Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work . |
| 22 | They bear favourable comparison and their intuition , perception and consistent attention to detail provides a much needed balance to any group discussion . |
| 23 | The operations were to copy an already highlighted block to the clipboard ; open the file COUNT ; paste the block into it and then close COUNT without saving any changes . |
| 24 | And I think that 's got to be part of the British Olympic Association 's er philosophy , to ensure that we have an even handed approach to it . |