Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chen returned the man 's bow , then followed him down the hallway to another door . |
| 2 | Perhaps the clue to this imbalance lies in the title Mr James has chosen . |
| 3 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 4 | So the visit to this country by Boris Yeltsin is a timely reminder of the opportunities in that former superpower . |
| 5 | Hungary is less the exception to this rule than is often made out . |
| 6 | Such detailed concern with consumer regulation and protection at both national and local levels put an unmistakable stamp on the 1970s — and the Consumer Credit Act is very much a monument to that approach . |
| 7 | Because there is so little drag on crossing two stitches every four rows this is one time when you will not need to take down a stitch to either side of the cable . |
| 8 | In the case of respondents whose arguments will be simply that the judgment of the court below is correct for the reasons given , counsel for the respondent can send in a letter to that effect in lieu of a skeleton argument . |
| 9 | Unbeknownst to club officials , ‘ Royst ’ was in fact only a visitor to this country and his permit ran out two months ago . |
| 10 | The invasion of Afghanistan may be less an exception to this rule than many think . |
| 11 | Discretionary policy-making at a number of levels in the organization is thus the key to this system , perhaps corresponding in its internal fluidity to some of the features of Burns and Stalker 's organic model of organization . |
| 12 | It 's not the answer to all education 's problems , of course . |
| 13 | The publisher may be correct in believing that there is a space for a book which reviews Picasso 's career in its entirety and discusses the full range of his activity as a painter , draughtsman , printmaker , sculptor and ceramicist , but this publication is certainly not the solution to this requirement , and Professor Warncke of the University of Tübingen is , sadly , not the scholar to undertake this enormous task . |
| 14 | But there was soon a limit to this process of adjustment : once perfection had been reached they were vulnerable to changes in habitat . |
| 15 | You 're just a commodity to that company . ’ |
| 16 | He is probably known as Champagne Tom in the office , always breaking open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate handing over a fortune to another punter . |
| 17 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 18 | Apparently , for the ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ X , homosexuality is not a submitting to another man but a competition with , a displacing of , him . |
| 19 | Since the airline is not a party to such contract it is not bound to carry or even to store the goods referred to in the house air waybill . |
| 20 | The position was again stated in the House of Lords in 1986 : ‘ there is no way in which a party to an action in the High court in England can compel pre-trial discovery as against a person who is not a party to such action , either by way of the disclosure and inspection of documents in his possession or power , or by way of giving oral or written testimony ’ . |
| 21 | But the faction now in control in Mogadishu was not a party to that agreement . |
| 22 | ‘ If you 've got a guy that 's homeless the jail 's not a punishment to that person . |
| 23 | Possibly the answer to this question may be found in the recovery of population , and the renewal of pressure on available land . |
| 24 | The music of Maritza 's entrance was always a gift to any singer , good or bad : the rising crescendo from the orchestra that tells the audience a star is about to come on stage . |
| 25 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sure you would , landlord , but I 've taken rather a fancy to this ale-house of yours . |
| 27 | His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent . |
| 28 | If we can now persuade more birds to come and perch on top of the first lot we can in principle build up the wire to any thickness we choose . |
| 29 | This article is also a contribution to that process of critical revision , and therefore inevitably involves an element of self-reflection , focusing on some of the ideas and approaches which I have used in my own antiracist work over the years . |
| 30 | Does his eagerness amount to setting up a trust to that effect ? |