Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened to the starch in her voice , observed it in the straightness of her backbone , recognised the ramrod will that made no concessions to hardship . |
| 2 | Underneath the veneer of participatory management , it is business as usual — and business as usual represents a threat to America 's long-term capacity to compete . |
| 3 | However , the widening of the margin of fluctuation either side of par to 2¼ per cent at the Smithsonian Conference in December 1971 posed a threat to EC plans for limited exchange rate fluctuations amongst member currencies . |
| 4 | He just requires to spend one night in London , he 's due to catch a flight to Vienna the next day . " |
| 5 | It was also uncertain by the middle of the year to what extent the LDP 's factions were prepared to support a challenge to Kaifu for the leadership . |
| 6 | Whether the investors are prepared to support the migration to software remains uncertain . |
| 7 | It follows that society is entitled to insist , for example , that companies are equipped with governance structures adequate to enforce a commitment to profits on the part of management and to promote the efficient operation of the business . |
| 8 | The surface may be bowed into a curve by tensioning the two cross-spars and , while this contributes a lot to stability , the Rokkaku is still a single line fighting kite . |
| 9 | This made no sense to Lucien . |
| 10 | Questions like these in the consultant 's mind led to fanning a small positive spark in seemingly totally negative behaviour , and this made a difference to Mr E both in relation to his colleagues in the group , and as Dave 's teacher to whom a way out of a vicious circle of perpetual defeat could in this way be illustrated , again without explicitly referring to the analogy of the situation . |
| 11 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 12 | Since the Tsar was already an ally against Germany , it was politically inconvenient to demand an end to anti-semitism in Russia . |
| 13 | The pie was made to celebrate the bicentenary of the first pie , which was baked in 1788 to celebrate the return to sanity of George Ill . |
| 14 | The mainsheet traveller tore off the deck and began a chain reaction : next to go was the boom vang , and this caused the boom to fracture at the gooseneck , overloading the mast check-stay which parted . |
| 15 | This typifies the attitude to Japan and Japanese investment in France and in the Community . |
| 16 | This allows the librarian to gauge use of the library in total and the use made by particular classes . |
| 17 | 2 Cut the film to size and stretch it over the window frame , sticking it to the tape |
| 18 | On March 13 King Michael had written to interim President Ion Iliescu stating that he was prepared to lead the country to democracy through a constitutional monarchy . |
| 19 | This encouraged an end to labour force participation and established the two arbitrary ages as customary retirement ages . |
| 20 | For any high flyers considering keeping well above this area , a quick reference to EUR 2 shows an air to air refuelling area of 2600 square miles starting abeam Bristol and Bournemouth and ending just before Land 's End , restricting the air from FL 80 to 180 . |
| 21 | A meeting between representatives of the government and 26 political parties was held in Luanda on Jan. 14-26 to discuss the transition to democracy . |
| 22 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
| 23 | Coupled with the neglect of diagnosis and assessment in the ‘ needs ’ part of the programme , this constituted an approach to children 's learning which was too generalized and unfocused to have any significant impact . |
| 24 | This followed a visit to Italy on March 8-18 by Economy Minister Nechayev . |
| 25 | In spite of Hawke 's presence the number of enemy ships at Brest rose , within ten days , from 11 to 17 , as the French began the build-up to invasion . |
| 26 | EDITOR : As we have always said it is YOUR newspaper , although not being prepared to put a name to letters [ even if the name is not for inclusion ] means authors can not collect the £25 Star Letter prize . |
| 27 | Prima facie , this raised a liability to stamp duty under s57 of the Stamp Act 1891 according to the value of the debt assumed by the transferee . |
| 28 | This blocked the advance to socialism — ‘ the awakening proletariat is seized by a naive nationalism , fortified by class hatred , and this obstructs , for a long time , the penetration of socialist ideas ’ . |
| 29 | Erm , I , I think sometimes if he 's prepared to talk about such things as this , he should be prepared to consider the advantages to villages of , of small schools , and not just work on the financial item . |
| 30 | None of this meant a thing to Sien . |