Example sentences of "[noun] to [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 2 | It is a staple of the multilateral trading system , and is extended by the United States to all but a handful . |
| 3 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 4 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 5 | nothing in this Condition shall limit the liability of the Carrier to less than the sum of £10 ; |
| 6 | Overall , the number of complaints and inquiries fell by nearly 10 p.c. to 1,206 but the number of complaints was ‘ slightly above the 1990 level ’ . |
| 7 | In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown . |
| 8 | Some sufferers , again particularly the juveniles and also those suffering severely from eating disorders — compulsive over-eating , anorexia or bulimia — may require long-term ( from a minimum of three months to more than a year ) support in a half-way house . |
| 9 | The miners ' strike drew attention to the social costs of pit closures in mining villages , but the government case gave barely any recognition to this and no connection was made with regional policy . |
| 10 | Gone down from ten pence to three and a half . |
| 11 | From 1989 to 1991 , Italy and the USSR decreased their contributions ; their joint share fell from a half to less than a quarter . |
| 12 | The customer care programme includes four simple charters which cover all aspects of hospitality from hygiene standards to a cheery welcome to each and every customer . |
| 13 | The public is entitled to use the highway for passage and repassage from one place to another but the extent to which this gives an unrestricted right to hold a moving demonstration on the highway is doubtful . |
| 14 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 15 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 16 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 17 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 18 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | His success will be of immense importance to each and every Bank Official in the future . |
| 20 | Nor is it very daring in the monolithic two-party system of the USA , where the narrow choice is between two rich , conservative ( in a wide sense ) white men , to offer allegiance to one or the other . |
| 21 | Although the Bill intends to allow the transfer of items in the collections from one public body to another and the disposal of objects under certain conditions , it reaffirms the principle of inalienability . |
| 22 | A good system for storing electricity will not become possible before 1995 , Meanwhile , the date for artificial intelligence is shunted back 20 years to 2020 and the time for weather control is 2030 instead of 2015 , All kinds of obstacles , not so much technological as human and economic , have interfered with the 1962 predictions , as with many others that people have made with seemingly unimpeachable authority over the past 50 years . |
| 23 | And some London pubs have slashed their prices from £1.70 a pint to less than a pound . |
| 24 | On the Yacht Policies the excess may go as high as $1000 so care should be taken to apply the Policy excess to each and every claim to which it is appropriate — refer to the Excess Guide and the underwriting risk screen on the Polisy system for full details . |
| 25 | The sun was setting a glittering scene for the first hole , enlivening the damp leaves on the backdrop of ancient and stately trees , whose different designs gave character to each and every hole on this , one of the loveliest golf courses in southern England . |
| 26 | The energy will flow from one object to another if a sympathy or attractability exists between them . |
| 27 | Both the transition from one steady pattern to another and the onset of periodic unsteadiness can be understood as instability of the pre-existing type of convection — and indeed have been successfully analysed from that point of view . |
| 28 | The addition of Sheffield brought the total number of UDCs to eleven and the government has stated that there will be no other UDCs before 1992 . |
| 29 | ‘ When we were real little , my Dad was into anything from The Chieftains to Sly & The Family Stone , to Joe Cocker , to Buffalo Springfield ; there were so many different things that he loved . |
| 30 | Much of the taxpayers ' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices , effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire . |