Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident also appeared to provide a pretext for the government to institute harsher measures against the student demonstrators . |
| 2 | Cameron 's father began writing plays again , and managements competed for the rights to stage each new mature masterpiece . |
| 3 | Quite a phenomenal achievement for the party to pool that number of quite diverse opinions together , professional , Country Landowners Association , all the District Councils , have done an excellent job of unity and cooperation , and I think that 's very , very welcome indeed . |
| 4 | Indeed , for this reason one can usefully add Mozart 's Don Giovanni and Bizet 's Carmen to the above list : the use ( in land-locked , mountainous Salzburg ) of a nocturnal seascape as the backdrop to Act III of Carmen was one of Karajan 's strangest and yet most haunting intimations of eternity . |
| 5 | The second paragraph goes on about the report to council Environmental Services Committee by the District Chief . |
| 6 | Few standard conveyancing textbooks mention , let alone discuss , the covenant implied in a conveyance made under " an order of the court " and there is a suggestion by reason of the heading to Part VI that such a covenant is only to be used where the court orders a conveyance on behalf of a person suffering under a disability . |
| 7 | There is a row of pews on either side of the chapel to seat two in each pew . |
| 8 | My hope and at this stage it can only be a hope , is that if consultations are held with presbyteries , a consensus will emerge as to the nature of the changes to Act seventeen that are required and that that consensus will enable the Act to be successfully amended . |
| 9 | Concern has been expressed in many quarters about recent apparent changes in the attitude of the police to Charity Sponsored Walks , etc. on public highways . |
| 10 | These two entered this room ethereally , drawn by the evil and the existence of the portal to location 64 inside this room ; they seek the evil magic within the Great Tower . |
| 11 | The accumulator vanes within the hood energize the conductors and insulators of the capacitor to power this incandescent discharge . |
| 12 | To begin with , the local followers of the Methodist creed met in each others homes , then , in the ‘ hungry forties ’ when their members numbered about a score , they undertook the building of a chapel to seat 120 . |
| 13 | To assist in the development of an approach to school internal evaluation in Strathclyde Catholic schools that considers the distinctive philosophy of the Catholic school as a basis for review and development . |
| 14 | But observers were sceptical about the prospects of an end to rebel military activity in El Salvador and the call for a larger United Nations role in verifying compliance with the accord and aiding in the disarming of rebel forces . |
| 15 | Cheltenham 's Tony Allcock has taken to grass like a duck to water this week … he won his first national title on the green stuff in the Ulster Games singles . |
| 16 | Kreig passed the woman without a sound , without a breeze , climbing like a rocket to Exit 347 , where she hung , waiting for the woman and Ardamal to catch up . |
| 17 | Dutch proposals to include two tropical hardwood tree species under CITES listing provoked the angry Malaysian response that CITES " should not be used as a tool to straitjacket international trade in timber " , for which the International Tropical Timber Organization was already responsible . |
| 18 | Dutch proposals to include two tropical hardwood tree species under CITES listing provoked the angry Malaysian response that CITES " should not be used as a tool to straitjacket international trade in timber " , for which the International Tropical Timber Organisation was already responsible . |
| 19 | THE famous Nurburgring in Germany last night emerged as a contender to stage next year 's ‘ cancelled ’ French Grand Prix in the latest crazy saga surrounding the race threatened by the French anti-smoking brigade . |
| 20 | This serves as an introduction to Part II , and more particularly as a prelude to Chapter 6 , because it deals with the subject of fiction itself : something which is strictly not a matter of style , but which is presupposed by the study of style in fiction writing . |
| 21 | I did n't exactly run up the steps to No. 9 , but I did n't hang about either . |
| 22 | With the baby on her arm and the little girl only half awake , stumbling behind , she splashed up the path to No 129 , knocked , was admitted . |
| 23 | I sneaked up the stairs to Flat 3 , tiptoeing by the door of No. 2 so as not to disturb Lisabeth and Fenella , the two dragons who inhabited that particular dungeon . |
| 24 | Behind the screen Wycliffe looked down at the dead man : middle or late forties , probably above average height , bony , but with a tendency to corpulence sedentary : the disease of modern man . |
| 25 | The licensed teacher scheme could be a major breakthrough but apart from teaching community languages in the secondary phase there is no provision again in this scheme to teach specialists with a view to reach these languages in the primary sector . |
| 26 | Presently , various representatives of the GCR have already visited South Wales with a view to purchase such examples during late June . |
| 27 | The position has been held to apply to an insurance agent , who was under no duty to hand those notes and coins to the company ( Robertson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) ) , and to a person in receipt of housing benefit , who was under no legal obligation to use the money to pay off rent arrears ( DPP v Huskinson [ 1988 ] Crim LR 620 ) , even though that was the purpose for which the accused received the benefit . |
| 28 | In total , the potent little amendment reads , as an addition to clause one : ‘ … after Community , insert , with the exception of the Protocol on Social Policy … ‘ |
| 29 | certainly in a far worse position than any other English claimant alleging erm any of the courses of action which are permitted as an exception to section fourteen |
| 30 | This serves as an introduction to Part II , and more particularly as a prelude to Chapter 6 , because it deals with the subject of fiction itself : something which is strictly not a matter of style , but which is presupposed by the study of style in fiction writing . |