Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 2 | Of all the major Western economies , Italy offers the closest comparison to Japan in terms of aggregate employment distribution and firm size . |
| 3 | Dornford Lane itself has an extension which actually by-passes Woodstock to the east and joins the main road to Oxford ( A 34 ) further south at Begbroke . |
| 4 | United Distillers has the largest commitment to Japan by any member of the international spirits industry . |
| 5 | Here No 50034 Furious , which has subsequently been painted in NSE livery , heads the 13.40 Paddington to Penzance train under Taunton 's west signal gantry on 11 April 1986 . |
| 6 | The A.87 enters Glen Shiel at Shiel Bridge and after a level two miles in which the scenery is dominated by the highest of the Five Sisters , Sgurr Fhuaran seen in full stature , starts the gradual ascent to Cluanie , bypassing the old Bridge of the Spaniards , so called because of a battle here in 1719 between Redcoats and Jacobites , the latter being reinforced by Spanish troops . |
| 7 | This newly discovered Gamble–De Lamerie partnership reinforces the long-held attribution to Hogarth of the engraving on the famous Exchequer seal salver made for Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 8 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 9 | On the north wall of the chancel of St Mary 's Church at Burford , Shropshire , stands a magnificent monument to Richard Cornwall ( d.1568 ) with his parents . |
| 10 | Different sociologists have adopted these different views , and others fall in between , but it is certain that any theory of stratification owes a great debt to Marx 's account of classes , even if the sociologist ends up rejecting Marx as mistaken or overtaken by history . |
| 11 | The expansion of middle-income purchasing power owes a great deal to England 's unique rate of urban growth . |
| 12 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
| 13 | Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) . |
| 14 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
| 15 | Serum fructosamine concentration looks a possible alternative to HbA 1 ( Baker et al , 1985 ) : it is reliable and reflects the integrated blood glucose level over three to six weeks versus eight to 12 . |
| 16 | This adds a new dimension to Tamburlaine 's character which people did n't appreciate , and emphasises the fact that he is a man of many talents . |
| 17 | The author also quotes , with apparent approval , Cyril Connolly 's remark that ‘ those with an irrational fear of life become publishers , ’ which certainly adds a new dimension to Freud . |
| 18 | ( This has a certain similarity to Carol Gilligan 's argument about moral reasoning , which I mentioned in Chapter 3 . ) |
| 19 | Air France ( 081-742-6600 ) has a daily service to Nantes from Gatwick . |
| 20 | The latest issue has a free guidebook to Moscow ( noted wildlife habitat ) on the cover . |
| 21 | A 1937 Brush car climbs the 1:26 gradient to Warley Road . |
| 22 | Kate passes the joint back to Jeremy . |
| 23 | Liz Robertson ( Maria ) , a veteran musical performer , bears a striking resemblance to Julie Andrews . |
| 24 | In the characters of the divided dorsal arm plates and the oral papillae O. retecta bears a closer resemblance to Ophiochondrus armatus than to any of the other species of Ophiolebes . |
| 25 | Having worked his way up via his own live spoof chat show Vic 's Big Night Out , he has latterly been guesting on television 's One Hour With Jonathan Ross , a show whose format bears a strong resemblance to Reeves 's own showcase . |
| 26 | O. metallacta bears a close resemblance to O. notata but differs in the shape of the oral and adoral shield ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 27 | THE MIX says a big hello to Jamiroquay live . |
| 28 | It bears an uncanny resemblance to GM 's victorious Sunraycer of two years ago . |
| 29 | The smart metalled road which links the new colonies to Aurobindo Marg gives out a few hundred feet before you get to the village . |
| 30 | None of the adults knows ; but his small daughter reveals the horrid truth to Julia 's small son . |