Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater , I watched the pastel purple of the Tanzanian dawn slowly change to a golden red . |
| 2 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 3 | It may be that some of the produce offered to the temple for the gods and goddesses was discreetly diverted to the royal household ; it may also be , as with many later monarchies , that the royal authority depended on the religious establishment for validation . |
| 4 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 5 | The announcement of the bride 's sister 's engagement would be acceptable , but only if the bride herself knows in advance and gladly agrees to the public announcement being made at her wedding . |
| 6 | When you say , " Do you understand me ? " , you are really asking if you have successfully communicated to the other person what you had in mind . |
| 7 | In truth it does not denote any single right , but rather refers to a disparate group of immunities , which differ in nature , origin , incidence and importance , and also as to the extent to which they have already been encroached upon by statute . |
| 8 | In many cases this has involved rewording of Learning Outcomes but little change to the basic philosophy of the module . |
| 9 | In the summertime , it is alive with hot fumes and rampant dogs and fashionable bathers crawling up Highgate Road on their way to the Heath , where they claim respective ponds and languor till the sky slowly turns to a soothing summer gold . |
| 10 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 11 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 12 | It suggests that of the subjects that usually comprise the humanities , philosophy need not necessarily be identified with the humanities at all , literature and the other arts are defined by their concern with art-objects and history arguably belongs to a broader conception of ‘ human sciences ’ . |
| 13 | The journals and correspondence of Verney Lovett Cameron , mostly relating to the unsuccessful attempt to relieve David Livingstone and the subsequent crossing of the African continent from east to west , were deposited by Major H. P. Lovett Cameron . |
| 14 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 15 | It remains constant up to a CO coverage of 0.05 monolayers before starting to fall , eventually returning to the clean surface value at a fractional coverage CO =0.35 . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 17 | France successfully objected to a proposed severing of air-links . |
| 18 | Haemoglobin , a scavenger of NO which is presumably confined to the extracellular space , also blocks the induction of LTP r141–143 , implying that NO ( or another haem-binding molecule , such as CO ) is released into the extracellular compartment . |
| 19 | Paisley accused Craig of proposing UDI and seemed most committed to the complete integration of Ulster with the mainland if the old majority-rule Stormont could not be reintroduced . |
| 20 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 21 | By 1917 Unionists had more cause to fear than to rejoice , for the Labour movement had been greatly strengthened by the war in both its aspects ; increasing membership and growing militancy in the trades unions , growing confidence in the Labour party , the arrival of organized revolutionary extremism in the shop-stewards " movement all pointed to a grim future . |
| 22 | In all metric measures and their direct phi-based equivalents only the 25th , 50th and 75th percentiles are used , so that attention is only given to the central half of the grain population present . |
| 23 | The Z2 Carbonate is also widely known as the Hauptdolomit ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Rhys 1975 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Wagner et a/. 1978 ) but strictly speaking this name only refers to a particular part of the formation . |
| 24 | So , so , I believe it 's alright to say well people will migrate in the presence of , it 's rational for a person to migrate in the presence of , of high unemployment if high unemployment only refers to the formal sector , but it 's not rational if it implies that it refers to informal and formal . |
| 25 | Was her voice loud enough to carry to the next table ? |
| 26 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
| 27 | A further risk is that the smaller Fellowships become so , " special and different " that they may lose the wider identification with all sufferers from addictive disease and they may therefore be less exposed to the common humility that is the essential basis for recovery . |
| 28 | The hypothesis that Sabat and Harré advance is that although AD can lead to disruption in memory recall , impairment of linguistic performance , and deficiencies of information processing , it does not result in the loss of ‘ self ’ and only contributes to the possible loss of ‘ selves ’ . |
| 29 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 30 | Antiracists have rightly pointed to the limited nature of multiculturalism 's focus on prejudice and attitudes , and its strategy of prejudice reduction by teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ . |