Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be a need to reorganize the whole time-scale of a current c , merely to fit the software into the work schedule . |
| 2 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 3 | Failure to do so was punished by being forced to wear the hated beret for a whole day in school — for lessons , lunch , everything , a badge of shame Sally had so far managed to avoid . |
| 4 | He refuses to wear the ceremonial purple of a bishop , preferring instead simple monastic robes . |
| 5 | Likewise in 1711 Jonathan Swift complained that " we have been fighting … to enrich usurers and stockjobbers ; and to cultivate the pernicious designs of a faction , by destroying the landed interest " . |
| 6 | THE DART VALLEY Light Railway Plc has become the latest steam railway to hit the financial skids with a plunge in passengers , income and overall profitability recorded in the 1991 accounts . |
| 7 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |
| 8 | This said that the Treaty should be discussed further , since it did not reflect the people 's wish , as expressed in the March referendum [ see pp. 38078-80 ] , to preserve the Soviet Union as a federation . |
| 9 | Nowadays record collectors have accepted this process , and only complain if they hear an imperfect edit , while record producers exercise their skills in an attempt to preserve the spontaneous qualities of a performance as well as the note-perfect quality . |
| 10 | to preserve the special character of a town . |
| 11 | The English were in fact trying to claim the authentic characteristics of a nation irrespective of how it was defined , including an attempt to cover English claims over Scotland and Ireland , despite the absence of any ‘ habit of unity ’ in the former case or of a shared language in the latter . |
| 12 | In experience of this kind , perceptions achieved through the schema aesthetic begin to affect the total context of a work and start to not only direct attention but also change the way in which the image is seen . |
| 13 | Separate from curriculum and assessment , a third element in the 1988 Act , although it affects teaching staff only indirectly , still has the potential to affect the whole future of a school . |
| 14 | Increasingly , chief executives are being persuaded — by a sales pitch which asserts that the most expensive mistake a company can make is to promote the wrong executive to a key job — to hire psychometric testers to analyse their management options . |
| 15 | A draughtsman or inspector will be able to search the local area around a given piece ( by digitizing or constructing a " search box " ) and have the system automatically insert all the parts lying in that space into his working drawing . |
| 16 | TODAY we 're giving you the chance to sample the carefree life of a pools winner — in the fabulous West Indies . |
| 17 | The obvious course of action — to dilute the imported spirit in a similar way with other spirits — was not an option , since importers were banned by law from doing so . |
| 18 | We can also begin to see the broad outlines of a much longer connected history of respectable fears surrounding the demoralising influences of popular amusements . |
| 19 | He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour . |
| 20 | He longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |
| 21 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 22 | I woke to see the dim outlines of a mountain towards the southeast . |
| 23 | No sketcher nor painter nor artist wanted to see the elastic weals on a model 's shoulders and chest and hips and thighs , every model left her underwear off for as many hours as possible before posing . |
| 24 | Shanti has always been able to see the funny side of a situation . |
| 25 | The driver was oiling an axle box when he turned round to see the trim figure of a young lady with a small boy near the first compartment of the carriage next to the tender . |
| 26 | Apart from the current pressures from Central Government not to build or replace residential homes but to rely more heavily on the private and voluntary sector and housing associations , they are also being pressed to see Residential Care as a positive choice ( Wagner Report 1987 ) , to see the residential home as a community resource by providing more flexible patterns , respite , short-term and long term care and extended day care . |
| 27 | As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year . |
| 28 | As a special mark of favour , Rainbow has brought Naomi to see the acting debut of a lesbian country-and-western heart-throb who 's branching out and sidling towards the big time . |
| 29 | Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ . |
| 30 | Molly wondered how far the language tapes borrowed from the Fulham Public Library had allowed her father to penetrate the political opinions of a Tuscan cleric . |