Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As a result of this special interest he made a topographical index to the drawings in the Soane Museum .
2 Many commented that the concentration on child abuse skewed their professional response to the needs of children and families more generally : Finally , one study ( McGloin and Turnbull , 1986 ; 1987a ; 1987b ) has focused on the much more restricted issue of the effects of parental participation at child abuse review case conferences .
3 Reflector boards shone light up into the subjects ' faces to refine the modelling ( reflections give a certain hooded look to the eyes in the portrait here ) .
4 Surely the way of transgressors is hard , and stands out in striking contrast to the ways of the Lord , which are experienced by those who walk therein to be pleasant and peaceful .
5 Central Council would like to record its grateful thanks to the members of the Medical and Legal Panels .
6 The need to halt Pakistani aid to the insurgents in Afghanistan indicated the regional dimension to any neutralisation of this country .
7 Urging Congress to approve the package of economic aid to the republics of the former Soviet Union totalling US$24,000 million , proposed by the Bush administration in April , he described this aid as essential to revive the Russian economy .
8 Similarly , in My Secret Life sexual pleasure was signified in total opposition to the norms of bourgeois married life and sexual relations with one 's wife :
9 In England , belief in the uniformity of time was greatly influenced by the Puritans in their strong opposition to the practices of the Roman Church , in particular to the idea of special days in the ecclesiastical calendar .
10 His almost total indifference to the trappings of conspicuous wealth or consumption proved a subtle , yet powerful , role-model , and a disincentive to the usual gripes about status and salary .
11 All we would do is transfer people from rural districts to the ranks of the unemployed in urban ones .
12 He firmly allied himself with the forces of change , but was careful to give due weight to the arguments for staying put , the detail in which he did this adding impressively to his reputation for grasp .
13 Any assessment of the significance of the Glorious Revolution , therefore , must give due weight to the ways in which the tensions between the Church and Dissent interacted with the constitutional conflicts that shaped Restoration politics , and once we do this , the Revolution appears in a fundamentally different light .
14 Now the British response to the makers of those velvet revolutions will be an iron hand that signals ‘ Keep Out ’ .
15 On 18 October 1260 , however , the ‘ last symbol of English resistance to the conquests of Philip Augustus ’ disappeared .
16 The French proved to be a highly motivated and very brave addition to the ranks of the SAS , but in some ways they were a mixed blessing .
17 Although innovation in particular cases had fostered very high population densities , it was the absence of population growth resulting from both the slave trade and the incidence of disease that provided little general incentive to intensify systems which were an adequate response to the difficulties of the environment .
18 A different response to the issues of " relevance " , and perhaps the more common one within higher education from the 1960s , was to take the degree of " adequacy " of literary awareness to be the measure of the individual student 's " intelligence " or " maturity " .
19 The French government is holding out an olive branch to the drivers by offering to negotiate how the new traffic laws are applied .
20 Even if all of these funds are taken into account , total direct funding to the Partnerships in the late 1970s has to be regarded as small .
21 Nevertheless , it must be supposed that there were economic as well as social inducements to the policies of expansion beyond the West Frankish frontiers pursued by the dukes of Normandy , Aquitaine , and even Burgundy , as well as by the counts of Toulouse , Flanders , and for brief periods Blois and Anjou .
22 Care Assistants are employed to provide direct support to the residents with such matters as toileting , dressing , washing and so on , supervised by a Senior Care Assistant .
23 Not only is notation important in providing an ordering in both of these contexts , but it also frequently acts as the vital link between any of the following : the schedules in a classification scheme , the printed and published index to the schedules of the classification scheme , the classified sequence in a catalogue or index , and the classified order adopted for document arrangement .
24 The leading Opposition party organizes a ‘ shadow cabinet ’ to provide for a considered and specialized response to the activities of the government .
25 The talks , inevitably , were overshadowed by public demonstrations of support for the Soviet leader which in turn contributed to a wave of public resistance to the policies of the Chinese government itself .
26 Jonathan Thornton , managing director of HSI , said yesterday : ‘ It will clearly be a very different course to the others in St Andrews .
27 This condition can be corrected by temporarily propping the floor , cutting out the rotten joist-ends , treating the sound timber to be retained with preservative and restoring support to the joists through a bracket or joist-hangers ( Fig 32 ) .
28 A decision to make a marginal increase in the school 's contact ratio , in order , say , to purchase administrative and clerical assistance in the recording of assessments ( probably a sensible response to the demands of the new curriculum ) will affect the conditions of service of every teacher .
29 The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ .
30 ‘ The present gaols are really beautiful penal toys ’ , wrote a complaining correspondent to The Times in 1863 , ‘ the perfection of lodging-houses-for-single-men architecture … in a better situation Pentonville would sell well as ‘ chambers ’ ’ for Bank clerks and MPs of limited income' .
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