Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He juxtaposes two or more negatives in a single frame or , again superimposing different shots , transfers the printed photograph to a large canvas backing using a computer able to read a positive image and reproduce it in polychrome . |
| 2 | Censorship only exposes the offending article to a greater public . |
| 3 | Censorship only exposes the offending article to a greater public . |
| 4 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 5 | Video Plan 7 illustrates a different approach to a longer sequence ( about 15 minutes ) . |
| 6 | Good on you , I say , it adds a light-hearted touch to a great magazine and we all need a laugh now and again , do n't we ? |
| 7 | Solitude adds a special quality to a walk and bad weather can do the same — though it does mean that many of us prefer to stay in the lowlands more often . |
| 8 | And BellSouth Corp 's BellSouth Telecommunications is testing the on-premises-only Northern Telecom Ltd Companion system launched in Hong Kong last year and at Hannover last month — which adds a cordless system to a PABX . |
| 9 | It adds a characteristic flavour to a range of savoury dishes , from pizza to pork chops . |
| 10 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 11 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 12 | John Sewell has a unique claim to a place in any gallery of Palace heroes , because he was the popular and talented skipper of the team which took our club into the 1st Division for the first time in its history , back in 1969 . |
| 13 | ‘ Any defendant has a fundamental right to a fair trial . |
| 14 | She should understand that every country in the world has an incontrovertible right to a ‘ fortress mentality ’ and every country has been historically allowed the right to keep its borders intact and protect its people from invasion by hostile forces . |
| 15 | While laws against personal assault probably fall into this category , it is clear that no one has an individual right to a particular defence policy . |
| 16 | Hogarth devised a line of beauty that has an uncanny similarity to a woman 's back ! |
| 17 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
| 18 | Borrowing looks an odd route to a ‘ balanced ’ budget , but it is mostly within the letter of the law . |
| 19 | A producer is defined by s. 1(2) as : ( i ) the manufacturer ( ii ) the person who wins or abstracts products ( iii ) the person who carries out an industrial or other process which adds an essential characteristic to a product which has not been won , abstracted or manufactured . |
| 20 | In this case the total of the amount received by the local authority must be spent on the provision of good X. In the case shown , the budget line now looks like 154 and the conditional constraint forces the local authority to a corner solution 5 . |
| 21 | For lasers based on atomic transitions , this limits the available wavelengths to a few discrete lines , and even for molecular liquid dye lasers the practical tuning range for a given dye is limited to about 50 nm . |
| 22 | Probably the largest on the earth 's surface , to me it bears a passing resemblance to a somewhat distorted version of a face that was popular in Eighties amusement arcades — that belonging to a creature called Pac-Man . |
| 23 | ‘ Boggers ’ ( no , I do n't know why , though I suspect it may have something to do with a haircut that bears a passing resemblance to a bogbrush ) may have a couple of incisive seasons left in him at best , but opponents will rarely get a moment 's peace when he combines with Bicknell and Waqar Younis next year . |
| 24 | Notice that such a skip instruction bears a close resemblance to a jump instruction using relative addressing ( see 4.3 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Hullo , angel child ! ’ says a buxom blonde to a thin youth who looks like he 's in training to become a sales manager . |
| 26 | Lloyd is caught up in a worldwide agreement which limits a foreign-based jockey to a 30-day stay . |
| 27 | Influenced by a wide range of illustrators and painters , from William Blake to Chagall , his work introduces the young reader to a long tradition of Western art . |
| 28 | Since the price system achieves Pareto efficiency by inducing each individual to equate marginal cost or marginal benefit to the price received or paid , and hence to one another , taxes that imply that buyers and sellers face different prices ensure that the marginal cost to a seller no longer equals the marginal benefit to a buyer . |
| 29 | Steve Peach inspects a running repair to a minor problem with the water delivery pipe . |
| 30 | This informal remark shows an inescapable attachment to a character epitomizing one of the most fascinating , longest-lasting , and most potent aspects of Eliot 's work : its binding together of the savage and the city . |