Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 2 | No single characterisation or particular formulation of the rule enjoining judicial obedience to statute can supply answers in advance … |
| 3 | Morse had knocked his shin against a large suitcase standing just inside the door , and for a moment he squeezed his eyes tight , the whiles giving quiet voice to a blasphemous imprecation . |
| 4 | The important role attributed to ‘ Motherese ’ in language development among normally developing children , has , in turn , fuelled speculation that some forms of language impairment may arise from the child having insufficient exposure to adult language or , alternatively , being among adults who adopt inappropriate styles of talking to young children . |
| 5 | Like the sages of India , there are individuals with " animal power " who can sit alone in the forest attracting wild animals to them . |
| 6 | Why does Luke spend two whole chapters in the Acts of the Apostles bringing considerable weight to this matter to make his point ? |
| 7 | Stick her neck out and her life would be a succession of errands for Mrs Fanshawe , running about the town sending crazy messages to a girl who did n't exist . |
| 8 | Ufologists include a cross-section of the population spanning pseudo-religious fanatics to reasonably careful researchers . |
| 9 | But Commission officials conceded Britain 's case that the evidence linking big bikes to accidents was not convincing . |
| 10 | The argument tying increased prosperity to increased freedom was intended to demonstrate to individuals , groups and communities whose interests were involved with the slave trade and slavery that they were impolitic in their understanding of their own interests . |
| 11 | The results achieved in 28 summers of work have been rich and conclusive , the sculpture ranging front portraits to mythological reliefs , statuettes to colossal figures . |
| 12 | In the theories relating viscoelastic response to a spectrum of relaxation times , and in the formulae relating static and dynamic expressions , infinite integrals are used . |
| 13 | And Paul claims that God has done so , through the Spirit interpreting spiritual truths to men who possess the Spirit . |
| 14 | Finkelstein ( 1991 ) has argued that this has created a hierarchical view of disability , with groups higher up the hierarchy adopting alienistic attitudes to those seen to be lower down . |
| 15 | He was kneeling in the middle of the lounge fixing small bulbs to the roof rack of Signe 's VW . |
| 16 | in education the introduction of the Local Management of Schools will pass many of the decisions affecting individual schools to the school itself and away from the local education authority ; |
| 17 | Now they were passing by the foundries , the guides choosing neglected routes to disorient the younger cadets , so it seemed . |
| 18 | Before my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State makes the order giving statutory force to the 1992 schoolteachers ' pay and conditions document , he is required under the 1991 Act to consult interested parties on the review body 's recommendations on the Government 's proposals for implementation . |
| 19 | The proposition linking external factors to workshop behaviour rested on the first three studies . |
| 20 | It 's more at the medium-term level that you can talk about the system making sensible adjustments to new circumstances , and indeed , many schools and many Local Education Authorities have simply had to do that , they 've had to erm adjust to much smaller numbers of pupils , correspondingly smaller numbers of teachers , and a much more static situation generally . |
| 21 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 22 | That belief has been rudely undermined by the collapse in the market causing severe embarrassment to many big players . |
| 23 | The United States House of Representatives had voted on May 22 to incorporate in a foreign aid bill ( which was , however , subsequently defeated ) a provision cutting military aid to El Salvador by 50 per cent , in protest at the failure of the authorities to prosecute the murderers of the priests . |
| 24 | Thus , for example , a provision declaring signed accounts to be binding will not apply in the event that a partner is induced to sign a false account believing it to be true . |
| 25 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where a member state prohibits retail premises from being open on Sunday for the sale of goods to customers , save in respect of certain specified items sales of which are permitted , and where the effect of the prohibition is to reduce in absolute terms the sales of goods in those premises including goods manufactured in other member states , and correspondingly to reduce the volume of imports of goods from other member states , is such a prohibition a measure having equivalent effect to a quantitative restriction on imports within the meaning of article 30 of the Treaty ? |
| 26 | But the Martian Government has signed a contract guaranteeing weekly delivery to the Furus — the native tribes of Mars — in return for which the Furus work the red iron mines . |
| 27 | The hotel has many planned activities to amuse its guests and also has a minibus making frequent trips to Funchal and back . |
| 28 | I despise the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ since it demotes it from a work inspiring extreme reverence to just another large painting . |
| 29 | Kinsey defines the underclass by turning to a bibliography spanning Social Darwinism to Monday 's Daily Mail , via Sir Keith Joseph and the US political scientist Charles Murray , published recently in the Sunday Times . |
| 30 | DES Circular 11/87 , referred to above , said that there would never be a case for a teacher advocating homosexual behaviour to pupils . |