Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | My son is immensely proud of them , and offers the following advice to gardeners worried about their technique : ‘ Growing pretty flowers is easy if you fill your wellies full of muddy stuff and squish it down a lot . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ This is the beginning of real interdenominational activity , the foundation of a process wherein lies the real path to peace . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The example illustrates the legal obstacles to parties to a treaty characterising as international waterways , areas that are not under their exclusive jurisdiction and control , rather than just making contractual commitments with respect to them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sir , — Your correspondent , R W Christopher in the October issue ( see p 7 ) , highlights the lamentable spread to Companies House of the sort of bureaucratic nonsense emanating from Brussels . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The GEP emphasises a practical approach to business development which involves comprehensive training and advice in those key areas that determine business success . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The expansion of middle-income purchasing power owes a great deal to England 's unique rate of urban growth . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The wording of the section contains no express limitation to documents which can be said to be part of a process of reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge . |
| 24 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The judgment adds a new dimension to interpretations of Section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act , 1981 , which says journalists can only be required to reveal their sources if it is necessary ‘ in the interests of justice ’ , or for ‘ the prevention of crime ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |