Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take his point about maintenance and I shall of course draw it to the Housing Executive 's attention . |
| 2 | A decision was taken in principle to require agencies with independent sources of income to transfer them to the central treasury . |
| 3 | Oldfield 's marriage lasted for just two weeks , requiring lawyers and a large sum of money to bring it to a conclusion satisfactory to the bride . |
| 4 | He urged people not to let the short-term problems of recession blind them to the long-term truth . |
| 5 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 6 | My conception of sport elevates it to the realms of art , where the producer finds room to express himself and the consumer studies and appreciates ; both seek satisfaction . |
| 7 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
| 8 | This sort of evidence leads me to the conclusion that the continents , rather than sailing about the earth until they met in catastrophic collisions , separated and came together again repeatedly along the same general lines . |
| 9 | ‘ I have no love for the very common attitude which places certain literature and pictorial matter in the realm of art to justify it to the establishment … |
| 10 | the sneeze of movement returns it to the same position , |
| 11 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
| 12 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
| 13 | The employment prospects of those who are voluntary casuals and who seek only occasional work is usually secured by the networks of reciprocity linking them to the organizations which have such work to offer . |
| 14 | Consideration of the duration of unemployment leads us to the possibility that a significant proportion of the unemployed could be short-term — perhaps less than four weeks in duration . |
| 15 | Once dolphins locate a school of fish , they spread out , some individuals diving down to the school of prey to herd it to the surface by swimming around and under the fish in an ever-tightening formation . |
| 16 | I was ruining his chances of getting free from the chains of misery attaching him to a rotten banlieue de Paris . |
| 17 | Dimly making out figures , he leant forward on his mount , and a volley of fire tore him to the ground . |
| 18 | Delaney fixed the detonating pins into the plastic , using the remaining length of wire to bind it to the timer , making a DIY bomb . |
| 19 | Sometimes our resistance to the idea of dependence leads us to a degree of enthusiasm which can impair our judgement about need . |
| 20 | That is , when we inform someone by means of language we retrieve a message from our model of reality and by means of the encoding and decoding of language transfer it to the addressee , who then fits it into his own model of reality . |
| 21 | ( 1 ) Before any third party is registered as the transferee of shares he will be asked to execute a deed of adherence binding him to the terms of the subscription and shareholders ' agreement . |
| 22 | Taking these two points into consideration leads us to the conclusion that meaningful chain dimensions can only be values averaged over the many conformations assumed . |
| 23 | A solid yet agreeable course book with material to commend it to the serious student . |
| 24 | Additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred as a consequence of accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which you are travelling or failure of public transport services resulting in failure to deliver you to the International departure/return port or airport in time . |
| 25 | Anyway the second school favoured scarlet cross-overs , the lady in charge directing me to a local wool shop where I could buy the yarn and a ( hand knitting ) pattern . |
| 26 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 27 | ‘ The William S. Paley Collection ’ ( 28 February-16 May ) consists of eighty-four mainly intimate-scaled early modern works acquired by the late founder of CBS , and bequeathed to a foundation that in turn conveyed them to the Museum of Modern Art in New York , where Paley was chairman emeritus at the time of his death in 1990 . |
| 28 | A short walk from Brand , or a local bus ride , will take you to the cable car which in turn takes you to the Lunarsee , a beautiful crystal clear mountain lake . |
| 29 | We do not have to specify what it is we want to any analyst who in turn specifies it to a programmer who then writes a program . |
| 30 | We invited Corpus Christi to tea and they in turn invited us to a sumptuous Sunday brunch in their garden overlooking Christ Church meadow . |