Example sentences of "[noun] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels . |
| 2 | We owe a great deal to the United Nations Secretary-General and to Mr. Picco who have worked tirelessly with others to secure the release of the hostages . |
| 3 | Mrs R. was referred by her general practitioner to the social services office for assessment . |
| 4 | If the archetypal Tory of the 1979 intake was a rent-a-quote property dealer who backed Mrs Thatcher to the death and the death penalty to the hilt , Mr Heddle can be called a sad loss to the Two Nations Tendency . |
| 5 | The suggestion that Thomas 's race was a consideration in his nomination was highly embarrassing for Bush as it coincided with the president 's unrelenting opposition to a civil rights bill passed by Congress which he had pledged to veto on the grounds that it supported minority quotas . |
| 6 | It has been alleged by the director of a management investigation company that telephones in Transport House , then the headquarters of the Labour Party and still the headquarters of the TGWU , were tapped for long periods during 1972 , a time of union opposition to the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 7 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it gave him an excellent excuse not to apply his mind to the dismal subjects rearmament , the war in Spain , relations with Hitler , the distressed areas the weight of which had built up during his absence . |
| 9 | Send your entries to the Public Affairs Department to arrive no later than 30 April . |
| 10 | It failed to strike me immediately , and I questioned the judges ' decision — replacing it with one of the entries to the three veneers class . |
| 11 | The British Government are a signatory to the United Nations convention on refugees . |
| 12 | Yet , thanks to the cumbersome appeals procedure , each execution currently costs between $2m and $5m , four or five times what it costs to keep someone in prison for life . |
| 13 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 14 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 15 | The risks have been somewhat reduced thanks to the 1992 Cheques Act which shifts responsibility to the banks provided all safeguards have been taken . |
| 16 | Entry to an All Formats Computer Fair costs a mere £4 . |
| 17 | As a result in February 1990 the World Federation for Mental Health — for the first time in its 40-year history — made a submission to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva , arraigning an individual country for abusing the human rights of mentally ill people . |
| 18 | I am arranging for a copy of our submission to the Welsh Affairs Committee to be sent to you . |
| 19 | Each such point has its own logarithmic spiral of homoclinic orbits to the origin around it , and a dotted line of homoclinic orbits to the stationary points C coming out of it . |
| 20 | IN December Michael Fallon allocated £243,000 to the aided schools sector in Durham for minor works . |
| 21 | and it can not produce an alternative to a defective police case . |
| 22 | Point Three was the stumbling block , for the only significant alternative to the equitable Straits Convention of 1841 was completely to eliminate Russian naval power in the Black Sea , which would have had the effect of handing control of the region to the British . |
| 23 | All the students had successfully completed Longlands College 's preparation for entrance to the uniformed services course . |
| 24 | However , as that role will need to be funded , does he support the Government 's policy of cutting aid to the United Nations development agencies by 38 per cent . |
| 25 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 26 | I framed my remarks in a hypothetical context following on from delegation to the regional arts boards , and I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not there to listen and to learn . |
| 27 | The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 28 | The convoy , led by a police car and two police motorcycles , made its way through Long Island City , across the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan then down First Avenue to the United Nations Plaza , the hotel where the Zimbalan delegation would stay for the duration of their three-day visit to New York . |
| 29 | Their speeches to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna delivered a double rebuff to China and other countries which say their circumstances are special and that their peoples ' rights are no-one else 's affair . |
| 30 | During busier days they brought companies to the unlisted securities market but required owners to sell only 15 p.c. of their shares to outsiders — who often turned out to be long-term holders lined up in advance by the issue 's brokers . |