Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Most Rev. George Carey , the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior cleric of the Church of England , on May 18 — in the week before he was due make an official visit to the Pope — criticized the Roman Catholic church 's policy on " artificial " methods of contraception , as contained in the Humanae Vitae encyclical of 1968 [ see pp. 24239-41 ] . |
| 2 | It found that the cost of building the required plants was too high and the sales of pellets too low to provide a viable solution to the country 's manure surplus problem . |
| 3 | However , the level of both permissible earnings and of increments on deferment was too low to provide a significant disincentive to retirement — an indication of the Labour government 's ambivalence on the issue . |
| 4 | While Conservatives have proposed the Council Tax as an alternative to the poll tax , Labour want a temporary return to the rates . |
| 5 | It is usual to write a short title to each memo in order that the reader can see what it is about at a glance |
| 6 | Whether it is something as special as a wedding bouquet or as simple as a few flowers gathered on a picnic outing together , knowing where and when the flowers were picked or used adds a great deal to the meaning of the picture , and the recipient will be very touched at your thoughtful and generous gesture . |
| 7 | Diana 's decision to quit Highgrove leaves Charles free to drive the short distance to Middlewick whenever he likes . |
| 8 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |
| 9 | The Treasury defeated this proposal , but the Cabinet was prepared to initiate a new approach to Liverpool 's difficulties — the task Force . |
| 10 | Manpower constraints , often found in industry , make it impracticable to allocate a single person to using online services . |
| 11 | Milgram found that twenty-six of his forty volunteers — 65 per cent — were prepared to administer the maximum shock to a stranger in these circumstances . |
| 12 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |
| 13 | Geologists and civil engineers who have worked for the Cardiff Bay development corporation as consultants have in general been willing to give the green light to the package . |
| 14 | He advised the French to send a powerful embassy to Scotland . |
| 15 | Considering the moment propitious to pursue the Spanish claim to Gibraltar , he and Carrero Blanco mounted a press and radio campaign for the return of the Rock . |
| 16 | The aristocracy have found that out to their cost and that 's why they 're often willing to turn a blind eye to the occasional by-blow , provided it 's handled discreetly . |
| 17 | However much Cnut may have played the Christian king , he was , like other rulers , willing to turn a blind eye to church teaching when it suited him . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ answered Raffaella and then went on to tell Julia with no self-consciousness at all that she became a prostitute in Rome , where the dollar-rich American soldiers were prepared to pay a small fortune to a good-looking , elegant girl . |
| 19 | It has also become involved in the Work-out scheme in London , which aims to help the young unemployed take an active approach to life . |
| 20 | THE Soviet parliament last night imposed a ban on all strikes in industries essential for the smooth functioning of the economy this winter , and authorised the use of troops if neccessary to guarantee an immediate end to the rail blockade by Azerbaijan , which is crippling neighbouring Armenia . |
| 21 | This is an important reason why the old have a high propensity to be poor . |
| 22 | I am a pensioner , but would be prepared to make a reasonable contribution to any costs involved . |
| 23 | CNP hopes to develop the Japanese approach of partnering , where a customer is prepared to make a heavy commitment to a single supplier in return for guaranteed quality , service and delivery . |
| 24 | Nat West Chief Executive Tom Frost said : ‘ We are prepared to make a public commitment to supporting small businesses . |
| 25 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 26 | It is therefore not possible to set a theoretical limit to society 's power to use law to enforce moral rules , i.e. it is not possible to define an area of morality into which the criminal law may not under any circumstances intervene . |
| 27 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 28 | If , as it currently appears , it is correct that Western countries have almost no legal means to recuperate stolen works of art from Japan , and as long as Japan refuses to join the Unidroit convention , it will remain impossible to find a conclusive solution to art theft . |
| 29 | Fortunately it turns out to be impossible to give a simple answer to this question and possible to give a more complex answer allowing both possibilities . |
| 30 | Idiotic and dangerous to send an untrained man to Moscow … inadequate preparation on East Europe desk … incompetence … and now the turned bloody ankle of embarrassment . |