Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [art] [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's an odd number of repeats , then when the N1 cam is in the centre you 'll get half a repeat at each edge , but if you move the N1 cam half a pattern repeat to the left or right of centre , then again you 'll get a complete pattern repeat at the edge . |
| 2 | ( This was why he had not been allowed up to seek out Miranda in her room — though she had managed on several occasions to sneak some of her new friends past the desk ; while at night , there was no porter and she had her own key to the wrought-iron and glass front door . ) |
| 3 | While this perspective was offered as an alternative to the moral and disease models of child abuse , which tend to dominate ‘ lay ’ and ‘ expert ’ thinking on the subject , it is only one of a number of possible sociological approaches . |
| 4 | It is one of Callinicos ' main concerns to relate the constellation of ideas and cultural practices trading under a conception of the postmodern condition to an inadequate and escapist politics : the claim , as one of his own critics has had it , that ‘ the conditions that sustain oppression can be altered piecemeal ’ ( Patton , cited , p. 85 ) . |
| 5 | There was sand in front of her , sand behind her , sand to the left and sand to the right . |
| 6 | Through this process of the return to the mean or average , the superbly intelligent , highly motivated race remains an illusion . |
| 7 | Bukharin was warning that there should not be such a fundamental revision of policies as would mean a return to the arbitrary and commandist methods of ‘ war communism ’ , This meant that , for Bukharin , industrialisation should proceed within the established framework . |
| 8 | John Rawls , in A Theory of Justice , seeks to arrive at abstract principles of justice by means of a device which strips the procedure of arriving at principles bare of all reference to the particular and concrete . |
| 9 | The European Court held the refusal was a breach of his right to a private and family life , since the file was the major record of his childhood , and there should have been an independent body which could override an improper refusal of consent . |
| 10 | There is , of course , a major difference between people who hold most of their wealth in land , or stocks and shares and government bonds , or even gold , compared with those whose ‘ wealth ’ is predominantly bound up in their right to an occupational or state pension . |
| 11 | Discover the wonderful Ionian Islands on one of our flotillas tailored to give confidence to the inexperienced and freedom to the expert . |
| 12 | It is about a guy struggling from one crisis to the next and part of the appeal is that he is not particularly likeable , so you do n't mind seeing him get a rough deal , but like an awkward Grandfather you hopethings will turn out OK . |
| 13 | This is a gift to a loving and understanding heart . |
| 14 | To do that you must use a variety of clubs for chipping , from the sand wedge to the 5 or 4-iron . |
| 15 | Hale 's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer , a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture . |
| 16 | He was master mason to the prior and chapter of Canterbury by 1496 , but was also active in Cambridge , where he worked at King 's Hall and on Great St Mary 's church . |
| 17 | The records of both these types of court are of use to the local and family historian . |
| 18 | Their biographies provide us with access to the professional and class alliances which fed into the politics of mid-Victorian social reform . |
| 19 | The placement of a text to the left or right of the network , for example , involves judgements based on textual factors such as the narrative point of view ( Fowler 1986 : 127 – 46 ; Simpson 1990 ) , the presentation of verbalisation ( Leech and Short 1981 : 318 – 51 ) , the degree of non-actualised propositions ( Leech 1981 : 154 – 6 ) , as well as the form in which metaphors are realised , and so on . |
| 20 | She was the strongest of us all , the wisest and the kindest — she gave hope to the sad and courage to the weak . |
| 21 | Scarcity limited its purchase to the wealthy and quinine did not become available generally for the treatment of malaria for another two hundred years , when the Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies . |
| 22 | The scornful response to the latter and silence about the former soon gives the game away . |
| 23 | There was free distribution of milk to the poor and broth to the sick in the villages nearby , and an almshouse was established , modelled on those which Nicholas had seen in Holland . |
| 24 | The nineteenth century had brought mass production in the wake of its industrial revolution , and this reversion to the home-made and hand hewn was a natural reaction . |
| 25 | Yet he had to bend that independent character of a man to the urgent and cropping world of the educational imperative . |
| 26 | Many even carry their host specificity to the generic or family level , with quite a few genera of Laboulbeniales restricted to specific genera or families of arthropods . |
| 27 | It was difficult to believe that they had a life to the left or right of that stretch of wire . |
| 28 | The statistical approach follows on from the Lorenz curve type information but recognizes that , for example , studying the income share of the bottom 10 per cent does not indicate how they are doing in relation to the mean or median of the distribution . |
| 29 | Earlier , in the first systematic exposition of his new conception , Marx ( Marx and Engels , 1845–6 ) indicated four stages of development in the division of labour and the forms of property , in European societies , from tribal property to the communal and state property of antiquity , then to feudal or estates property , and finally to modern capitalist property . |
| 30 | But there is also a practical and political problem , since it is difficult to see how such a theory could speak in any way to the practical or material concerns of women . |