Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [art] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was away at sea for much of the following year , and frequently thereafter , on voyages to the Mediterranean and North America . |
| 2 | It was dark in front , but there were indistinct swirls of painfully bright colours to the left and right . |
| 3 | The central cable is a good one to start with and will lift a plain stocking stitch sweater but with little effort you can work two small cables to the left and right of centre and make the pattern even more interesting , especially for a ‘ V ’ neck sweater . |
| 4 | In each of the semi-roundels , adjacent to the central square , are two lotus buds linked by a fillet ( in the panels to the left and right of the lion ) and half of a sixteen-petalled flower enclosed by simple guilloche ( in the panels above and below the lion ) . |
| 5 | They could see the empty watch-towers to the left and right . |
| 6 | structural changes to the social and health services brought about by the NHS and Community Care Act and changes to GP contracts are monitored to ensure that they do not adversely affect older people ; |
| 7 | ‘ By the fifth decade of the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution had completely dislocated the traditional structure of English society , bringing riches to a few and misery to the many . |
| 8 | Adapted in their different ways to the dry and cold of the tundra , musk-ox and opposite-leaved saxifrage . |
| 9 | He shows the typical standard of human forgiveness and in so doing mirrors exactly the attitude of the Pharisees and Scribes to the poor and outcast of Jesus ' day . |
| 10 | In addition to virtually dissolving the Army — a measure described by contemporary witnesses as " completely crazy " — the Prime Minister , Casares Quiroga , refused to distribute arms to the political and trade union organizations of the Left , evidently more afraid of the Republic 's supporters than of its enemies . |
| 11 | British flights to the Caribbean and South America , and across the Pacific , could now use American airports and pick up traffic there . |
| 12 | The wealth of the west depended absolutely on colonial domination , territorial expansion and the import of cheap commodities , including , when it required them , human beings , whether as slaves to the Caribbean and North America , indentured labour in the plantations of Malaysia and Africa or migrant workers to Europe . |
| 13 | DIPLOMA , the electronics and building components group , is buying 90 p.c. of Anachem , a Luton-based distributor of liquid chromatography systems to the pharmaceutical and research sectors , for £10.4m in cash . |
| 14 | The needles crossed begin with the two centre stitches , then every fifth and sixth stitches to the left and right of centre 0 . |
| 15 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |
| 16 | Each database may contain hundreds of thousands of references to the scientific and patent literature ( see table 4.1 ) . |
| 17 | it was er , at a time when this an African district committee sent representatives to the central and visa versa |
| 18 | This latter period saw the creation of a labour code ( 1943 ) limiting the functioning of unions to a local and plant level and bringing them tightly under the control of the Ministry of Labour . |