Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [prep] [num ord] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The central part of the island seemed at first to belong to another and less dramatic world .
2 ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine .
3 Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants .
4 When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part .
5 When regular radio broadcasting began in 1922 , the press refused at first to publish free the daily programme schedules .
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