Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) There may be a time lag between the occasion of the alleged rape and the reporting of it to the police . |
| 3 | Dr. Briant is doing the right thing — doing his own job to the best of his ability and leaving the rest of it to the people he 's doing it for — you . ’ |
| 4 | She looked from the magnificent Renaissance oil-paintings that graced the wall behind her to the perfect symmetry of the mosaic floor in the atrium . |
| 5 | With the hill and the dark masses of the trees behind it to the south , the place does n't get any sunlight in winter and not that much even in summer . |
| 6 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 7 | The need for an ‘ official name ’ for indexes and dictionaries contrasts with the desire of others for a set of rules for different names leaving the choice between them to the user . |
| 8 | So let's hope Shirley Bassey turned out to be a Real Big Spender and put the Goldfinger on him to the tune of a few bob . |
| 9 | They all have common engine mounting bolt holes in the block and the depth from them to the back of the engine is common . |
| 10 | On the other hand he will be able to answer questions such as ‘ is the door behind you to the left or to the right ? ’ because he has used that door and needs to use it again . |
| 11 | For once he pushed the vision of her to the back of his mind , his thoughts focusing instead on the events of that night . |
| 12 | They had to leave the two burning galleys , and a third , Lachlan 's damaged one , was sinking under them ; they transferred the men from it to the others just in time . |
| 13 | In short , it may be illuminating to start with the damage and work back through the cause of it to the possible duty which may have been broken . |
| 14 | Out of her own clothing , into the clothing marked off for her on the design board , a quick check of hair and make-up , smile , toss back your shoulders , strut out from behind the curtain that separated the studio from the private showroom and stride the length of it to the platform and turn , step , step , turn . |
| 15 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 16 | Some tests may involve chemicals which need to be handled with care , but this should not preclude the sale of them to the general public in kits which include protective goggles and detailed instructions on their handling . |
| 17 | The Forestry ( Transfer of Woods ) Act of 1923 transferred the property in them to the forestry Commissioners , who were made responsible for their care and management . |
| 18 | Hendrique , using two paper napkins to protect his hands , removed the strip light from its socket on the ceiling of the carriage directly above the table then unravelled a length of flex and secured the two crocodile clips at the end of it to the respective overhead power points . |
| 19 | Despite suggesting that God must have been on the side of the Philistines in the battle , they talk as if God is literally enthroned above the ark , and the bringing of it to the camp will mean the bringing of God himself . |
| 20 | Migrant families have brought the tradition with them to the urban shanty towns . |
| 21 | For some considerable time the stone provided a ceremonial seat for the inauguration of High Kings of Ireland until one of them , Fergus MacErc , became ruler of the new kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll , and took the stone with him to the fortress of Dunadd . |
| 22 | Berthe Weill shrugged and crossed the street after him to the catcalls of the crowd . |
| 23 | But then the property was not given to her ; it was given on the face of it to the trustee . |
| 24 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
| 25 | Now we ask er the club to supply er in between us signing them up for to do the cards to them to the consultant erm er getting there getting there to do the assignment could be five or six months . |
| 26 | So a survey of an area such as a city might raise genuine problems of getting about to see people , and cluster sampling might sample a number of polling districts and concentrate the interviews in them to the complete exclusion of all the other polling districts . |
| 27 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 28 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |
| 29 | There is still the village well , now covered , with a monument above it to the memory of Sir Christopher Sykes , second baronet , in 1840 . |
| 30 | We were further delayed getting back on station by a detour for me to the south end of Duke Street . |