Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will particularly be the case when the adverse effect is upon the livelihood or the ability to earn of the second person or body . |
| 2 | That we react with positive moral emotion to such qualities of character , even when they are not useful to us , turns on a mechanism of sympathy , or the tendency to fall into the feelings of others . |
| 3 | What we called in our tenth report ‘ the inviolability of practice ’ , or the tendency to skirt round the issues at the heart of education , needs to be breached . |
| 4 | The channel thus had financial security without either public subsidy or the need to bow to the ratings . |
| 5 | Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone . |
| 6 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 7 | Edge curtains with a row of co-ordinating fringing or a frill to add to the layered look . |
| 8 | But more often , he was there in the front row with a chalice or a chasuble to lay on the stage . |
| 9 | These can include either a loss of control or a tendency to freeze in the face of attack . |
| 10 | We were given crêpe paper to make hats , lanterns and crackers , and Mrs Archer would provide us with a sweet or a nut to put in the cracker . |
| 11 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 12 | He eyed the door , expecting the handle to turn or a key to rattle in the lock . |
| 13 | Even less than Local Authorities are they to be relied on for continuity of policy , or an ability to look beyond the day after tomorrow . |
| 14 | They probably have neither the time nor the inclination to go through the necessary learning process , and particularly so now that the more modern battery-powered devices are available and are so efficient . |
| 15 | Peking officials now seek to excuse the June atrocities by claiming — all too credibly — that they had neither the resources nor the expertise to cope with the escalating civil disorder culminating in the Tiananmen Square assault . |
| 16 | Some in the Republic believe , though , that the decision to call off the tours would suit the SARU , who have been made aware that three matches in four days in Bucharest in the middle of June followed by two in a week in Rome could leave very few survivors from heat stroke . |
| 17 | The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism . |
| 18 | Cheap fares were available only for the westward journey , so that the disincentive to return to the East was considerable . |
| 19 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 20 | He rejects the suggestion that salary is a satisfactory reward to entrepreneurs , and argues that the opportunity to trade on the basis of inside information should be viewed as part of a compensation package to encourage innovation . |
| 21 | Where you find those two provisions you construe the document , not as a release , but merely as an undertaking not to sue a particular individual , and the result is that the right to proceed against the co-debtor is reserved and can be put in force against him . |
| 22 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 23 | A second result was to weaken customary control over pre-marital sexual relations and in the context of increased mobility the inevitable result was that the impulse to marry in the event of a pregnancy was either weakened or thwarted . |
| 24 | After a lifetime of university teaching I have ceased to believe that the desire to sit at the feet of many masters is a powerful motive with the majority of wandering scholars . |
| 25 | Was it possible that the desire to return to the Vita Apostolica , the simple life of prayer , personal austerity and poverty was reconcilable with the Petrine commission and all the pomp and authority that suggested ? |
| 26 | Equally , however , there may be some circumstances where ‘ strong ’ government amounts to nothing more than the power to force upon the country crass , stupid and mistaken policies lacking even the virtue of endorsement by a majority of , presumably , misguided electors . |
| 27 | For groups in this position the right to take part in politics represents little more than the right to whistle in the wind . |
| 28 | This process is not going to stop , so the time to plunge into the Baronnies is surely now before they are reclaimed for the retirement bungalow . |
| 29 | Although a failure to comply with the principle is not directly an offence , it could result in an ‘ enforcement notice ’ being issued by the Registrar . |
| 30 | Now the purpose of relying on a rights- based argument is frequently to claim an entitlement to act irrespective of the consequences for others , and so if the idea of rights is to be coherent we must accept that a freedom to act in the face of at least some adverse social outcomes is entailed . |