Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Such costs will either be absorbed on a pro rata basis into the cost of existing projects or charged to the overhead accounts . |
2 | As Lindblom has pointed out , however , it is by no means wholly destroyed , since ‘ [ m ] onopoly weakens responses to popular control , but it neither eliminates a response or leads to a perverse one … |
3 | According to a report in the Montreal Gazette the statues had been ‘ tampered with ’ in this way on several occasions , and the newspaper felt that they should be raised beyond the reach of pranksters or removed to an inside guarded site . |
4 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
5 | Showing an old photograph or object to an elderly person may be a means of jogging the memory , or breaking the ice , and may well prompt them to reminisce . |
6 | Stitch braid or fringing to the right side on the lower edge . |
7 | You may be recalled for a second interview or apply to the same place some time in the future . |
8 | In particular , problems of the calendar were the driving force that led to the initial development of Greek mathematical astronomy in the last decades of the fifth century BC . |
9 | There may nonetheless be a genetic predisposition that leads to the mood-altering substance providing the perceived perfect solution to this quest for unconditional love . |
10 | The simplest way is to freeze into the matrix a precursor that decomposes to the desired fragment when irradiated with light . |
11 | The sequence of the research that led to the final publication is as follows . |
12 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
13 | The settings mingled with Maeterlinck and Debussy invisibly ; the whispering wind , echoes and shadows , all the invisible shaping powers in a love tragedy that comes to a cruel climax because of the chattering of an innocent child … |
14 | Contemporary science is revealing complex symbiotic relationships that contribute to a shared environment to establish a balanced ecology . |
15 | Although yeast bHLH proteins that bind to the same DNA sequence as Myc and Max have been described , they are unlikely to play a significant role in our experiments . |
16 | The transcription proteins that bind to the octameric DNA sequence ATGCAAAT ( or its complement ATTTGCAT ) are called Oct factors . |
17 | These images paled before the man who came through the archway that led to the deeper mysteries of the church . |
18 | It was Ali 's martyrdom that led to the great schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia ; but here the Victory Arch becomes confusing . |
19 | With or without Campbell the Blues should have few problems against an Ards side that crashed to a 5– defeat at the hands of Cliftonville in their first TNT cup tie at the weekend . |
20 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
21 | They walked up the steps that led to the front door . |
22 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
23 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
24 | Any schemes which promote the arts and lead to a wider understanding are obviously most welcome . |
25 | In a tribal village , in Africa say , a boy is born to a particular woman who , obeying the customs of her people , proceeds to rear him either under conditions of high sociability or relative isolation and according to a particular regime of toilet training and weaning . |
26 | He sacrificed , he sacrificed the quick movement , the rapid changes of circumstance which a certain kind of reader demands , in order to match his description of thinking and feeling to the actual pace at which these things are experienced in real life . |
27 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
28 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
29 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
30 | The channel of communication is the copper wire which carries the electrical signals and runs to the distant end . |