Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Increase in value of asset The receipt or accrual of the income operates to increase the value to the individual of any assets held by him or for his benefit . |
| 2 | Sometimes he could feel as if this were a frontier post , with everything out there just waiting and passing time until the opportunity came to grab the territory back . |
| 3 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 4 | At the same time she can take the opportunity to try to build the esteem of those class members who lack confidence and are finding the work slightly embarrassing . |
| 5 | When he sought to do this from the pulpit of St Paul 's on 5 November 1709 ( the anniversary of the gunpowder treason plot , when preachers usually reserved their invective for Catholics ) , and combined it with a defence of the doctrines of passive-obedience and non-resistance , the Whig ministry of the day decided to use the opportunity to try to discredit the Church in Danger platform . |
| 6 | As well as the company brochure , employees were given documentation on the five counties surrounding the relocation area so that they had the opportunity to get to know the areas before visiting them . |
| 7 | This exhibition displays the principles of a worthy craft until the opportunity returns to construct the flights of fancy . |
| 8 | The majority failed to understand the motivation of some of the characters . |
| 9 | At the right moment , the American dropped his flaps , the Yak banked to avoid the collision and ploughed straight down into the forest at three hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 10 | In the truncated finale , for instance ( given a puckish rather than a trenchant slant by Kun ) , I was all too conscious of moments when the speed of articulation and lively nature of the acoustic conspired to widen the distance between soloist and woodwind , making for an uncomfortable out-of-phase sensation in their exchanges . |
| 11 | She was still crouched in the niche where the upright descended to join the girder . |
| 12 | The Bore likes to hear the sound of his own voice and jumps into each debate at the earliest opportunity , whether he has anything to offer or not . |
| 13 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 14 | For people like my daughter there is also the ethical dilemma to be faced on the funding needed to support the research work . |
| 15 | The direction , to your left , or to your right , in which the RC is displace from 0° to 180° , is the direction to turn to reach the track . |
| 16 | The Scotsman chose to acknowledge the event by printing a colour photograph of three women in a fashion show . |
| 17 | The Reverend offered to forgo the proceedings , and Boswell advised Johnson of the ‘ over-delicate scrupulosity of our host ’ . |
| 18 | But to work out how successful a campaign has been , the retailer needs to balance the profit made against the amount of money he spent on the campaign . |
| 19 | There is no way of knowing that the writer intended to write the word books , but by a lexical substitution error wrote boots instead . |
| 20 | Like the army officers , the writer attempted to justify the recruitment practices of the Guards , and , as might be expected from a serious organ of right-wing opinion , more ingenuity was shown in the search for justificatory reasons than was by the lower-ranking quoted officers . |
| 21 | This is particularly evident when the writer has to organize the negotiations for the essential deals with foreign sub-publishers who collect royalties in non-UK territories . |
| 22 | The Board resolved to refuse the suggestion from the Ministry on behalf of the electors , and on the grounds that it was necessary to exercise tight control of expenditure in the public services ! |
| 23 | ‘ But after a long deliberation of all the circumstances , the Board agreed to sanction the contest on the conditions laid down . ’ |
| 24 | When , therefore , the Board was entrusted with appeals this did not mean that any particular official should undertake the task , nor was the Board bound to disclose the report any more than minutes made on the paper before a decision was arrived at . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) Where the licensing board decides to hold a hearing as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above : ( a ) the clerk of the board shall serve on the holder of the licence , not less than 21 days before the hearing , a notice that the board proposes to hold the hearing specifying the grounds on which the board proposes to hold the hearing ; ( b ) the board shall not make a closure order without hearing the holder of the licence unless , after receiving due notice of the hearing , the holder fails to appear . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Where the licensing board decides to hold a hearing as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above : ( a ) the clerk of the board shall serve on the holder of the licence , not less than 21 days before the hearing , a notice that the board proposes to hold the hearing specifying the grounds on which the board proposes to hold the hearing ; ( b ) the board shall not make a closure order without hearing the holder of the licence unless , after receiving due notice of the hearing , the holder fails to appear . |
| 27 | Where an application to transfer a licence on a change of person with day to day responsibility is lodged out with the eight week time limit , see Argyll Arms ( McManus ) Ltd. v. Lorn , Mid-Argyll , Kintyre and Islay Divisional Licensing Board , 1988 S.L.T. 290 , where it was held that the board required to hear the application outwith the eight week period despite the provision that the licence ceases to have effect . |
| 28 | The Office of Fair Trading had considered an alternative approach : either ceilings ( a maximum permissible rate of interest ) or thresholds ( a rate beyond which the creditor had to bear the burden of proof in showing that the transaction was not oppressive , as in the old Moneylenders Act ) . |
| 29 | The appointment letter should also state that ( i ) in the event of the time and place not being convenient , the debtor is to name some other time and place reasonably convenient for the purpose , ( ii ) ( statutory demands ) if the debtor fails to keep the appointment the creditor proposes to serve the debtor by advertisement or post or insertion through a letter box or as the case may be , and that , in the event of a bankruptcy petition being presented , the court will be asked to treat such service as service of the demand on the debtor , ( iii ) ( petitions ) if the debtor fails to keep the appointment , application will be made to the court for an order for substituted service either by advertisement or in such other manner as the court may think fit ; ( c ) in attending any appointment made by letter , inquiry should be made whether the debtor has received all letters left for him . |
| 30 | The hospice wishes to thank the Springfield Mission for inviting the hospice chairman to address its members this week and to all those who have generously sent donations in memory of Mrs Hope , Mrs Ducker , Mr Brown and Mr Reed . |