Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it .
2 The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade .
3 The emphasis of paraprofessional training needs to build upon and extend the qualities and skills that these workers bring to the team rather than to concentrate on socializing them to professional or organizational ways of doing things .
4 Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’
5 His project is to discover the series of computations that the visual system performs on the input-pairs so as to arrive at an interpretation of the ( 2-D ) array in terms of ( 3-D ) replacement , motion , or change .
6 While he pretends to foster it loyally all the while so as to stay in contact with it ? ’
7 He had been invited either to refute the allegations publicly or to withdraw from the elections , and reportedly chose to take the second option .
8 However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ .
9 Is he aware that anyone placed in that predicament today , and who decided to go on the dole so as to look after his sick parents , would not receive a single penny piece ?
10 It would be inappropriate for us to dwell on the matter unnecessarily or to attempt to second-guess the decisions of the Lord Advocate in Scotland on the matter .
11 In the Undercroft was the Guild 's now famous Baking Stall ( £643 ) kept supplied for the 6 days by our indefatigable cooks , who , it was noticed , were anxious to get away in the afternoons so as to return to their stoves !
12 They should discuss the best way of monitoring loan arrangements within the company so as to put in place a control system to avoid these problems .
13 After travelling around the continent to a constellation of cities linked by who her father knew , it was a relief to cross the Channel alone and to arrive at a place where it was not generally such a struggle to make herself understood .
14 The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court .
15 It was a toss up whether to try for acceptance in the front row ranks , or work towards qualifying for the back row .
16 The courts will , however , avoid constraining a statute so as to dispense with a hearing completely .
17 There can be no alternative now but to press for guaranteed and unrestricted verifications , backed up by tougher international penalties against violators and greater pressure on all nations to accede to the treaty .
18 IF you like to feel at one with nature when you are having a tipple , you could do a lot worse than to make for the upstairs bar in the Shaftesbury Inn on Belfast 's Antrim Road .
19 Again we see how much easier it is to be absolute in allegiance to a doctrine rather than to enquire into the beliefs upon which it is founded .
20 He had no option now but to speak to his landlady in the morning about letting this homeless female have his bed for the night .
21 ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class .
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