Example sentences of "[noun] to [art] [noun pl] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One woman told Elizabeth Roberts that she had resorted to taking her wedding ring to the pawnbrokers ' three times : ‘ each time I was caught with babies ’ . |
| 2 | Stoddard Mercia 's expertise in weaving special designs to the customers ' exact requirements was a major factor in obtaining the Country Court order . |
| 3 | Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate 's suitability for entry to an interpreters ' qualifying course . |
| 4 | Dr Alan Stewart is a doctor specializing in nutritional therapy and a founding member of the British Society for Nutritional Medicine , as well as medical adviser to the Women 's Nutritional Advisory Service . |
| 5 | Mrs Stewart is senior adviser to the Women 's Nutritional Advisory Service , based in Lewes , East Sussex , which published the book . |
| 6 | Initially , they emphasised export strategies as an alternative to the leaders ' investment-based approach . |
| 7 | Needless to say , a full-scale review of the moral justification of private property will not be undertaken , but enough will be said to indicate that there are substantial difficulties in the way of providing a satisfactory justification of corporate power by reference to the shareholders ' supposed moral ownership rights . |
| 8 | The logic of TGAT , however , and its ten levels of attainment , suggests that alternative strategies are open to us if we care to use them ; and this is borne out by the small print of Circular 5/89 , which stresses that the keystages themselves are to be understood with reference to the pupils ' average ages , so that a pupil may ‘ be taught with another age group for one or more subject areas where appropriate … while remaining with his or her peer group for other subjects . ’ |
| 9 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 10 | A BOY aged nine has been sent by his local council to a Pounds 20,000-a-year public school to escape playground bullies . |
| 11 | Voluntary organisations up and down the country , from the Samaritans to the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service , were standing by to help bereaved families . |
| 12 | The European elections saw Labour capture forty-five seats to the Conservatives ' thirty-two , the first major defeat for Mrs Thatcher in ten years of premiership . |
| 13 | Labour won a massive victory being returned with 393 seats to the Conservatives ' 213 and the Liberals ' 12 . |
| 14 | It was returned to office in May 1929 with 287 seats to the Conservatives ' 261 and the Liberals ' 59 . |
| 15 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 16 | We have just heard that Bob Miller [ currently number one is the Chief Executive 's award scheme ] , has gained further business to provide plants to the surveyors ' temporary offices . |
| 17 | The terms of these rules give body to the parties ' respective stances before Vinelott J. and on this appeal . |
| 18 | Management yesterday began suspending ambulance staff in retaliation to the unions ' work-to-rule tactics . |
| 19 | The management structures of schools generally bear little relationship to the principles o& effective staff management . |
| 20 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A revealing passage from Khrushchev 's memoirs , citing a letter written by the Soviet premier to Castro in late 1962 , shows his complete insensitivity to the Cubans ' wounded national pride and barely conceals his irritation at what he evidently believed to be ingratitude on Castro 's part . |
| 23 | The Statement urged the development of sustainable forest management policies , due compensation to host nations for access to the forests ' genetic resources , and technical and financial aid to help developing countries preserve their forests . |
| 24 | The Statement urged the development of sustainable forest management policies , due compensation to the host nation for access to the forests ' genetic resources , and the provision of technical and financial aid to help developing countries preserve their forests . |
| 25 | Shortlisted parties will also be given access to the vendors ' various professional advisers to obtain information and to discuss specific areas . |
| 26 | But this , Taylor and Cameron argue , " rather than offering the analyst direct access to the participants ' own publically displayed identification of units and rules , only postpones the task to a subsequent turn " ( p. 121 ) . |
| 27 | The Dutch sellers were entitled to those proceeds of sale in priority to the buyers ' other creditors ( secured and unsecured ) . |
| 28 | During a visit by Hodgkinson to the Sisters ' Provincial Headquarters in London , it became apparent that the whole of the Convent site — with its buildings — was on offer if requested . |
| 29 | Using local sources in this way the history teacher was able to relate the particular history topic to the pupils ' own locality and so to their own experience . |
| 30 | The task force planned to cut a track through a corridor of forest running along the edge of the settlement to the elephants ' new sanctuary 50 km away . |