Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one place Shakespeare stretches the hypocrite 's resourcefulness to the limits , when an aside about the wisdom of the young Prince meant only for the audience — ‘ So wise , so young , they say do never live long ’ — is overheard by the Prince himself — ‘ What say you uncle ? ’ — forcing Richard to improvise brilliantly : But this superiority of wit places the audience in any uneasy position : if we laugh with the deceiver we could share his dehumanizing of the dupe . |
| 2 | 8 ) , ever since the end of the eighteenth century most of the movements of social criticism have been based upon a theory of society ; and on the other side , every major social theory which attempts to provide a new intellectual framework for understanding political life embodies at the same time a particular orientation to the important political issues of the age , whether in the form of Marx 's allegiance to the working-class movement , Max Weber 's identification with the German bourgeoisie and nationalism , or Durkheim 's commitment to the ideas of the Third Republic in France . |
| 3 | As Janette Richardson has noted , the transition from the horse 's frolics to the clerks ' night-time escapades is marked by the collocation of the miller 's retying the horse , and making the clerks a bed : To make the point absolutely explicit , when the clerk John has leapt on top of the miller 's wife in bed : — the verb priken , in Middle English , is a standard term for riding or spurring a horse . |
| 4 | At this point , Alexander II quoted from Gregory 's replies to the questions of the first archbishop , Augustine , of which the full text is in Bede . |
| 5 | The importance of the Union Treaty was emphasised by Gorbachev 's invitation to the presidents of the RSFSR and Kazakhstan to attend some of the summit meetings in Moscow on July 30-31 [ see pp. 38320-21 ] with US President Bush . |
| 6 | Again , the answer seems to lie in the way that the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the differences between just being gone and having vanished . |
| 7 | I would put Labour 's commitment to a citizens charter roughly in that category . |
| 8 | The Comptroller of Patents , Designs and Trade Marks rejected the application but the applicant 's appeal to the Patents Court was allowed by Aldous J. who said that the claimed invention related to a product ( the ROM chip ) and was , therefore , patentable . |
| 9 | Murray bought stamps at the school shop and fixed the two portraits of Richard 's mother to the letters , curiously reading the address on the envelope inscribed Buckingham Palace , London S W 1 , with the special code for personal letters to the Royal Family almost unreadable in Richard 's energetic script . |
| 10 | Most journals send the referees ' reports to the authors , and authors try to take them into account , assuming they are true . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Note 1 to Rule 2.1 requires advisers to draw their clients ' attention to the provisions of the Code and to warn them in particular about the obligations of secrecy and restrictions on dealings . |
| 13 | This is the start of the walkers ' way to the Falls of Glomach , first up a forest road to cross a ridge and then gradually declining to the top of the waterfall . |
| 14 | The best idea of all , according to Rob Owen , North 's courier to the contras , came from another film producer , a Mr Spivey . |
| 15 | The findings were based on interviews with 501 people — a representative sample of Lothian 's population — and featured in the Regional Council 's response to the plans for reform . |
| 16 | Although the location of the British National party office is a matter for Bexley council , we have drawn the council 's attention to the laws available to deal with racial hatred . |
| 17 | And Lest We Forget : A cricketer 's tribute to the heroes of St Nazaire . |
| 18 | In response to falling trade and as a gesture of solidarity to the pitmen , the landlord has changed the pub 's name to The Miners Arms . |
| 19 | Relations between the Americans and the Communist Chinese were strained by American support for the claims of Chiang 's government to the islands of Quemoy and Matsu , which lay three kilometres off the mainland . |
| 20 | Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial . |
| 21 | Slough 's home match with Clifton has also being called off following Sue Chandler 's call to the colours . |
| 22 | I still do not know whether Mick 's approach to the rules , trying to get me to break them one minute , and pointing an accusing finger the next , was a friendly tease or not . |
| 23 | Leapor 's response to the discomforts of agricultural labourers must be approached at different levels . |
| 24 | Leapor 's objections to the plans are recorded in the last section of ‘ Crumble Hall ’ [ see ML , 2 , 121–122 ] . |
| 25 | We will send £5 worth of Sainsbury 's vouchers to the authors of all published letters . |
| 26 | Nietzsche 's letter to the authorities at Basle included one cryptic sentence which we have still to mention : " I shall be able , soon enough , to show publicly my competence for an appointment in philosophy . " |
| 27 | Yet these lines contain an anger which is encountered again and again in her work , that from the constraints of a girl 's upbringing to the tyrannies of marriage , there is small hope of a woman achieving the life she wants . |
| 28 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ I condemn without reservation whoever gave this little girl 's name to the newspapers , ’ he said . |
| 29 | But it 's important too to draw the child 's attention to the patterns of spelling , and to show him how to analyse words . |
| 30 | Thus , although the legal model may prevent directors from regarding third party interests as ends in their own right , it is arguable that it is consistent with the directors ' obligations to the shareholders for the company to sacrifice profits in order to protect them given these possible relationships with shareholder utility . |