Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRIGHTON : In six verbose years as leader of his party , Neil Kinnock has not a memorable phrase to his credit . |
| 2 | West Yorkshire 's internationally-famous ‘ Railway Children ’ Line , currently celebrating its 125th year of existence , has now a double reason to be pleased . |
| 3 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 4 | ‘ Is there anything in this abbey that has even the vaguest reference to Jordan 's water or the Ark of Moses ? ’ |
| 5 | Brighton four-piece Sleep have produced a mighty fine debut which is obviously predominantly influenced by US hardcore but also owes quite a large debt to our own Snuff . |
| 6 | Brighton four-piece Sleep have produced a mighty fine debut which is obviously predominantly influenced by US hardcore but also owes quite a large debt to our own Snuff . |
| 7 | To me , the smell is not unlike fresh human ‘ BO ’ , but a bit sweeter ; it also has quite a peppery hint to it and a touch of wood smoke . |
| 8 | Lucky that I carry it around with me ; and that it bears not the faintest resemblance to Daniel . ’ |
| 9 | But a fourth kind of intelligence might be added , which is diplomatic intelligence , which bears not the remotest relationship to any of the other three , nor to any kind of intelligence that can be identified by any human being . |
| 10 | From Acharacle , the A.861 climbs over a low ridge to Salen , a village on the shore of Loch Sunart , reaching it through a pleasant woodland and between ditches of yellow flag iris . |
| 11 | The trapeze hangs lightly from a toggle , the toggle hangs from the end of a proper fishing line , the line passes over a springy pole to the door over the mouth of the basket where the little fish 's wriggling so free . |
| 12 | A beastie to carry the burden From cherub to abstract flying muse , Ruth Wishart reveals only the fifth logo to be attached to the Edinburgh International Festival |
| 13 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 14 | A bridge leads over a shallow stream to the rear part of the garden which is walled to one side . |
| 15 | This confrontation shows clearly the general attitude to books . |
| 16 | One sees here a complementary tendency to the influence of free sculpture on relief apparent in the evolution of high relief : a free-standing statue influenced by the conventions of narrative art . |
| 17 | I walked the 30 paces down the narrow alley to the very spot where the paper girl first heard the running steps of her assailant before she was knocked senseless . |
| 18 | The building , which faces west , lies below a turn in the Sacred Way which zigzags up the steep site to the temple , on a little terrace just above the south wall of the sanctuary . |
| 19 | Indeed , it takes quite a wise person to be sufficiently aware that they have a problem to seek professional help . |
| 20 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 21 | In the same way , the conferment of a peerage confers merely an inchoate right to a seat in the House of Lords . |
| 22 | Recombinant schistosome glutathione-S-transferase , which confers only a partial resistance to infection , induces a potent anti-fecundity immune response that dramatically reduces the number and viability of eggs produced by female parasites , and so reduces the risk of transmission and the pathology associated with infection ( A. Capron , Pasteur-Lille ) . |
| 23 | It reflects both the nutritional inputs to the human body and the demands put upon the body ( before adult height is achieved ) by growth , disease , work effort and other features of the environment . |
| 24 | The first annual report of the Oxford House mission in 1884 set this programme out most clearly : " Colonisation by the well-to-do seems indeed the true solution to the East End question , for the problem is , how to make the masses realise their spiritual and social solidarity with the rest of the capital and the Kingdom " . |
| 25 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 26 | Chairman of selectors Ted Dexter was at Lilleshall to run his eye over final preparations and said : ‘ We have had one of the most successful years at international level that we have enjoyed in recent times , but the coming tour represents quite a different challenge to the ones our players have had before . ’ |
| 27 | This departure from the rigid procedures of experimental psychology sets up a radical challenge to the conventional discipline . |
| 28 | The Treasury is not a reactionary monolith , but the combination and interpenetration of the upper echelons of private financial capitalist enterprises and the Treasury sets up a formidable obstacle to radical change in the management of financial flows . |
| 29 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 30 | This clearly sums up the Conservative attitude to taxation and , most importantly , it views the alleviation of poverty as part of an overall policy to improve prosperity for everyone . |