Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
| 2 | The second rhyme on dying emphasises the deforming physical violence which precedes the final judgement to death , and provides the stark reminder that this action kills joy : " alas ! my joy and my swetyng es demed to hyng " . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the beginning of real interdenominational activity , the foundation of a process wherein lies the real path to peace . ’ |
| 4 | But second key-noter Dr Arno Penzias , vice president of Research at AT&T 's Bell Labs , who besides being a Nobel prize winner has the additional claim to fame of being the boss of Unix creators Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie , disagreed . |
| 5 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 6 | However — with the loss of Jordanian sovereignty — until the United States accepts the Palestinian claim to sovereignty over the occupied territories , Resolution 242 is bound to remain bereft of meaning , since there is no US-recognized state to which the West Bank and Gaza can be returned . |
| 7 | The GEP emphasises a practical approach to business development which involves comprehensive training and advice in those key areas that determine business success . |
| 8 | The School Development Plan emphasises a rational approach to decision-making by encouraging schools to focus on a limited number of priorities and devise action plans to implement and evaluate these . |
| 9 | It contains a general index to magazine features , a recipe index and an index to recipes in our popular , step-by-step cookery series , Secrets of Success . |
| 10 | Figure 2 a adds a temporal dimension to Fig. 1 b , showing the proportion of sites occupied by C in successive time-steps ( starting with 10% D ) . |
| 11 | Kind as he is , one can imagine Boromir as a Ringwraith ; his never-quite-stated opinion that ‘ the end justifies the means ’ adds a credible perspective to corruption . |
| 12 | Cream of the crop : custard topping adds a crafty touch to Pear tart . |
| 13 | It has no present claim to fame and its longest guidebook entry are the words in Domesday . |
| 14 | In addition , because humanist psychological method has no uniform commitment to self-description and criticism , it depends , even more than traditional methods , on the individual psychologists practising it . |
| 15 | Although the CGR has no formal commitment to undergraduate teaching the CGR accepts students studying towards higher degrees . |
| 16 | Celeriac : this knobbly root vegetable has a similar flavour to celery . |
| 17 | The CITB , which was established under the Industrial Training Act of 1964 , has a firm commitment to training in industry . |
| 18 | Even with PostScript , which has a proven route to typesetting via the Linotron 100 and 300 , variations can occur — not all of them minor . |
| 19 | Not yet sixteen , Dick still has a youthful attitude to adventure and the new challenge makes him feel , as he says , like a tightrope walker ; but , to the reader , the impetus of personality has somehow been lost . |
| 20 | On closer inspection this turned out to be the L'Chaim Society , a Jewish good-time gang which presumably also has a stout approach to Judaism . |
| 21 | By making such distinctions Goody is constructing a model in which literacy is conceived of as ‘ autonomous ’ and which has a built-in tendency to determinism . |
| 22 | Sally has a relaxed approach to decoration . |
| 23 | ‘ I wished that for a long time , Lizzy , but your father has a different approach to life . ’ |
| 24 | Each of our forces is autonomous and has a different approach to security . |
| 25 | The Wild Wood has a different smell to Pigeon Alley , more like the chicken transporters that make you gasp when you ca n't get the car windows up fast enough — a cocktail of scurf , shit and butcher 's shop . |
| 26 | Of the twenty-eight varieties of rootstock permitted in the cultivation of Champagne 's vineyards , the most significant ones are : the 41 B Millardet et Grasset , which has a fair resistance to phylloxera and an excellent active lime resistance ( up to 40% ) ; the Selection Oppenheim No. 4 or So 4 , which has very good phylloxera resistance and reasonable active lime resistance ( up to 18% ) ; and the 3309 Couderc , which has excellent resistance to phylloxera and fair resistance to active lime ( up to 11% ) . |
| 27 | The Bank of England now has a statutory right to information about a bank at any time . |
| 28 | It is widely acknowledged that about one in ten of us has a marked tendency to homosexuality and perhaps half this group have homosexual experience as adults ( homosexual feeling and experiment are even more common in adolescence ) . |
| 29 | In Italy the palazzo has a literary claim to fame because in one of the rooms overlooking Piazza San Fedele Virginia Marino , wife of the son of the first Spanish governor of Milan , gave birth to a daughter , Marianna , who became the ‘ Nun of Monza ’ celebrated in a well-known Italian novel . |
| 30 | The Government still has a myopic attitude to spending . |