Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 2 | Because of the sensitive nature of this service the pre-issuance review is necessary to give additional assurance that the firm policy is adhered to and that the firm 's report is clear and responds to the needs of the client . |
| 3 | Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ? |
| 4 | The important experimental point to remember is that dust will also scatter light and contribute to the scattering intensity . |
| 5 | Her anguished voice made her mother realise something was seriously wrong and dashed to the family home in Spennymoor , County Durham . |
| 6 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 7 | But it was old and held to the post with bits of string in proper agricultural fashion . |
| 8 | Thankfully , though , there still remained one stark difference between the two men ; because where Luther had a cruel and vicious streak in his character , David was a gentle soul , generous and accommodating to a fault . |
| 9 | She pulled her arm free and walked to the booth , lifting the receiver off the wall . |
| 10 | His fingers were sweaty , his touch proprietorial , and all at once she wrenched free and turned to the man who 'd come to her assistance . |
| 11 | But as she shook her hair free and turned to the door , she realised that Miguel was already missing . |
| 12 | Some of us decided to get into the social and talk to the men . |
| 13 | His shirt was getting wet and moulding to the hard , enticing lines of his chest . |
| 14 | Your Maria Cork [ Healthcare , Beckton ] is so helpful , charming and comes to the bank promptly and early . |
| 15 | His ideal hero was a knightly hero who besides being brave and loyal was dignified , chivalrous , compassionate and vowed to the service of a rigid standard of personal conduct , the slightest violation of which is an unappeasable torment to his conscience . |
| 16 | Such formidable economic successes gave the German people a new confidence and allowed the expansion of social services , with a major pensions reform in 1957 , when old age pensions were made universal and tied to the cost of living . |
| 17 | For this , you don a neoprene suit , boots , flippers and life-jacket and take to the water in a specially adapted inflated lorry inner tube . |
| 18 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |
| 19 | The savoury rice was bone dry , half cooked and stuck to the pan . |
| 20 | It 's square , blue and white , generally weather resistant and belongs to the genus Hague . |
| 21 | It made such stellar acquisitions as the Packard collection of Japanese art , twenty-five Chinese paintings from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties , a Bacchic group by Bernini , Monet 's ‘ Terrace at Sainte-Adresse ’ , the Robert Lehman collection , David 's ‘ Portrait of Lavoisier and his wife ’ , the Temple of Dendur , Canova 's ‘ Perseus ’ and Velasquez 's ‘ Juan de Pareja ’ ( still the most important single paintings acquisition since its purchase in 1970 ) and made the museum more accessible and inviting to the public . |
| 22 | Thus , ‘ reasonable suspicion ’ , undefined and left to the discretion of the individual constable , is the key to many of their lavish powers . |
| 23 | But the policeman turned his back to Soapy and said to a man who was standing near , ‘ He 's had too much to drink , but he 's not dangerous . |
| 24 | They are more suitable , therefore , for straighter runs and flatter surfaces , like fences , house walls and trees , than to being turned , twisted and trained to an arch or pergola . |
| 25 | He gave up flat-hunting and went to the cinema . |
| 26 | ‘ So , sometime before or during the course of Thursday evening , a ceremonial sword is taken from its place in the Infantry chapel , sharpened and applied to the head of a priest . |
| 27 | She felt then that S. Kettering 's almost military orders were appropriate and added to the feeling of security about the place . |
| 28 | First , it is important that centres put the correct start and finish dates on the Form NC5 so that is a subject assessor visits a week before the declared finish date , he will find that students are close to finishing the module — and not that the declared date was fairly fictitious and related to a timetabling convenience . |
| 29 | But in this instance , the client was more offended than the candidate , and stormed out of the meeting , leaving the candidate puzzled but generally philosophical and according to the headhunter , ‘ he was quite amused and delightful about it . ’ |
| 30 | He moulded his hands along the long , slender curve of her back , and the towel came untucked and slipped to the floor . |