Example sentences of "[art] [noun] and [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please take the money and speak to these people , as a favour to me . ’ |
| 2 | However , they were later taken off the case and transferred to other duties . |
| 3 | ‘ Hombre , hombre , hombre , ’ they chorused , urging her to take her man , and ‘ Que lenta , ’ they screamed when she failed to catch up with her number four , and he went up the field and scored to loud cheers . |
| 4 | Most of them left the ministry and moved to other evangelical outlets for their vocation . |
| 5 | This deficiency is linked in some way to the death of nerve cells that arise in the forebrain and connect to many regions of the cerebral cortex . |
| 6 | Athelstan , however , had to stand outside the protective ring of steel watching Cranston bow at the foot of the steps and fall to one knee . |
| 7 | Such time was expensive — ‘ not just in costs to the parties themselves ’ but in the provision of a court and the expense and inconvenience to 12 jurors . |
| 8 | Export credit agencies provide insurance against certain defaults to the exporter and guarantees to specified banks against which the banks advance the appropriate currency at a preferential interest rate . |
| 9 | you know , so I rang up to Anglia television last night in the programme and objected to this , |
| 10 | If we do , we can banish one of the parties and return to one-party rule . |
| 11 | Initially the TDR was set at 8 per cent in the mid-1960s and raised to 10 per cent in 1969 The rate was reviewed in 1972 but not changed . |
| 12 | I had it in big letters — ‘ Father ’ Arrien ( the father in inverted commas ! ) will preach on the blasphemy of the Roman Mass on such and such an evening — and the priest of the town , he went up to the council and objected to this and said that Wylie 's a trouble maker . |
| 13 | In patients with blood group A , circulating anti-B antibody will bind to B antigen in the liver and lead to decreased detection of this epitope by the mouse anti-B antibody . |
| 14 | Opportunities for continuing education in adulthood are increasingly recognised as desirable , but when people are put in a position of having an obligation to learn with no prospect of ever quite passing the test and graduating to full citizenship , this may not be so desirable . |
| 15 | ‘ Thanks , David , but I 've bent the rules enough ; I really ought to get on to the village and see to this wretched food distribution . |
| 16 | reverse the order of the columns and listen to each pair of sentences ( helps flexibility and keeps you from getting into a rut ) |
| 17 | It is 30–45 m ( 100–150 ft ) thick near the mountains and thins to 1–3 m ( 5–10 ft ) 8 km ( 5 miles ) away . |
| 18 | Non-fiction texts should include those closely related to the world of the child and extend to those which enable children to deepen an understanding of themselves and the world in which they live , eg books about weather , wildlife , other countries , food , transport , the stars . |
| 19 | In bringing the discussion to a conclusion , the Chair drew attention to the following resolution which had been prepared by the organising committee prior to the conference and circulated to all participants on registration ( see Appendix 3 for full text ) : |
| 20 | Apart from the embarrassment and harm to industrial relations when the wrong worker is blamed , this approach may obscure the true reasons which may originate at management level . |
| 21 | In 1941 Kosovo was occupied by the Italians and annexed to Italian-controlled Albania . |
| 22 | Richard had not lost his sense of fun — his ability to push aside the vexations of the moment and look to better things ahead . |
| 23 | Released from the constraints of both shareholders and any market , managers are free to become public servants , ‘ a purely neutral technocracy , balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 24 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 25 | C.6.2 if so required by the Vendor in writing within 60 days following it being notified , retain solicitors chosen by the Vendor to proceed on behalf of the Purchaser in accordance with the instructions of the Vendor and give to such solicitors all and every assistance and information as they may require . |
| 26 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 27 | The America First Committee was formed , dedicated to keep the nation out of the war and opposed to any further changes in the Neutrality Laws . |
| 28 | So , with a bit of luck I shall be leaving the Midlands and returning to grubby old Gateshead or Sunderland , thanks be to God . ’ |
| 29 | Van loads of youngsters , each child properly labelled with name and destination , are brought to the station and dispatched to various places on the Great Western system … |
| 30 | Last month a group from Samaritans travelled to Middleton-in-Teesdale to publicise the service and speak to some of the people who regularly deal with the depressed . |