Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre of activity by mid-December was Shanghai , where students listened eagerly to the VOA reports about Wuhan and elsewhere . |
| 2 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 3 | King John , for example , undertook a payment of 1000 marks annually to the Roman see from 1213 onwards , when he became a vassal of the Roman Church . |
| 4 | Guests who were not already close enough to the bar to reach for fresh glasses of wine edged nearer . |
| 5 | Lord Bellomont 's position as Governor in New York , Massachusetts , and New Hampshire , and military commander in Connecticut , Rhode Island , and New Jersey was similar enough to the position held by the Governor of the Dominion of New England to show that unification was not just an eccentric idea launched by James II . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Faye mouthed a discreet , ‘ Thanks ! ’ to Belinda , and the latter guessed that Marise was not close enough to the Hamiltons to know of Faye 's diabetic condition . |
| 7 | Mr. Armitage [ junior counsel for the plaintiff ] suggested that clause ( b ) applies only to a mistake made by the officials in the Registry and not to a mistake made or induced by one or other of the parties . |
| 8 | Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . |
| 9 | It is important to emphasize that the discussion thus far has been developed , and the above conclusions have been reached , within the framework of the traditional account , which rests upon certain crucial assumptions common not only to the writers connected with the traditional account but to certain others not connected with the tradition as well . |
| 10 | They were of course no different from good maintained grammar schools and owed their survival after 10/65 only to the anomaly created in 1926 and perpetuated in 1944 . |
| 11 | ‘ However , an unregistered company is not , except in the event of its being wound up , deemed to be a company under the Companies Act , and then only to the extent provided by this Part of this Act . |
| 12 | Tax is deducted from all interest payments at a ‘ composite rate ’ which rate is calculated to yield that amount of tax which would have accrued to the Exchequer had the standard rate been applied only to the interest received by those liable to pay tax . |
| 13 | He suggests that authenticity can be understood as relating not only to the language selected to be taught but the task on which the learner is engaged and the social setting which is created in the classroom . |
| 14 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
| 15 | One , around the parish church , was Bishopstone proper ( with Throope ) , but the agglomeration of buildings I kilometre ( 2 mile ) away to the west consisted of four separate settlements . |
| 16 | Further , if one looks at the picture for some time , one generally finds , involuntarily , that what one sees changes frequently from a staircase viewed from above to a staircase viewed from below and back again . |
| 17 | … ( 6 ) In this section ‘ costs ’ means costs as between party and party , and includes the costs of applying for an order under this section ; and where a party begins to receive representation after the proceedings have been instituted , or ceases to receive representation before they are finally decided or otherwise receives representation in connection with part only of the proceedings , the reference in subsection ( 2 ) above to the costs incurred by the unassisted party in the proceedings shall be construed as a reference to so much of those costs as is attributable to that part . |
| 18 | It was Freeth 's custom to write songs — setting his words to popular tunes — about remarkable events in local and national news , and to sing them nightly to the company assembled at his Coffee House . |
| 19 | Additionally , although the cars must conform broadly to the standards required for full Type Approval , the need for physical tests of door hinges and latches , protective steering and anti-theft devices will all be waived . |
| 20 | I was listening engrossed to the woman I was walking to work with , who the night before had found two night-screws stretched out on the desk in a passionate embrace when she 'd gone downstairs to the office to ask for a Tampax . |
| 21 | The availability of work at terminals just to the north led to a much greater increase in construction workers ( 82% compared with 18% ) in the western sector ( KW14.7 ) than in the eastern sector ( KW 14,8 ) , so that by 1981 their levels had become similar . |
| 22 | If isostatic compensation is local , that is if vertical adjustments of the lithosphere in response to the removal of a load are confined just to the area covered by the original load , then isostatic uplift simply reduces the rate at which a land-surface is lowered by denudation ( Fig. 4.7(A) ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most convincing argument for the reality of species is that the kinds of animals and plants recognized by pre-literate peoples have been found to correspond almost exactly to the species recognized by modern taxonomists in the same area . |
| 24 | This is quite understandable if the non-specified version of the infinitive 's support corresponds to a " generalized person " : since this person is the virtual sum of all persons ( first , second or third ) , if to snow is not explicitly referred to it , the infinitive is felt as having a possible reference to " me " or " you " , which corresponds exactly to the impression produced by the sentence above and explains why it does not make sense . |
| 25 | Through you , Mr. Speaker , I wish to apologise unreservedly to the families involved in Friday 's bombing , to those who represent them in this House , and to all those in our wider society who would have taken wholly justified offence . |
| 26 | When the light went out , Rain had the suspicion they were not alone on the stairs , that someone was watching them , perhaps they actually passed close to a figure pressed into the shadows . |
| 27 | The new pope was enthroned in the most sacred place in the basilica of St Peter , in front of the confessio or altar of St Peter , close to the mortal remains of the apostle to whom Christ had committed the government of His Church on earth . |
| 28 | On the second day of their slow ride up the river they found traces of Morthen , a snail-shell hair net , slung from the branch of a tree close to the cold remains of a fire . |
| 29 | Cuts of this size would bring the US close to the target sought by many other industrialized countries to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 30 | Among the results was a mixture close to the leaf waxes from cabbage ( or possibly turnips ) , indicating what the Saxons ate . |