Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasion was the annual dinner of the Corporation of London 's planning and Communication Committee at the Mansion House , when Charles seized the opportunity to say a few words about the plans for the redevelopment of Paternoster Square . |
| 2 | This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’ |
| 3 | My very sincere thanks to everyone involved in the Art in Nature Competition — thank you for choosing me , and giving me the opportunity to spend a little time on this magic island , which so generously allowed me to paint , and to enjoy , its special beauty . |
| 4 | I am glad of the opportunity to offer a few words of introduction to this , our latest prospectus . |
| 5 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 6 | We have also been offered the opportunity to have a former L.M.S . |
| 7 | I am grateful for the opportunity to make a few points about the environment . |
| 8 | Members of the senior management team who will be responsible for guiding and shaping the Board to meet the many challenges and opportunities of the future are … |
| 9 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 10 | Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect . |
| 11 | As we shall see , the attempt to employ the same concepts to describe quite different tasks was a common phenomenon among young nationalists . |
| 12 | ( make ) Both in the same script : the difference in the attempt to spell the same word indicates fairly clearly a weak visual memory . |
| 13 | The more times we successfully complete a manoeuvre , the more opportunity we are giving the mind to reproduce the same movements . |
| 14 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 15 | A second attractive Beckmann , ‘ Blick auf das Meer ’ from a private collection in Switzerland was withdrawn from the auction to give the former owner , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne the opportunity to buy it back . |
| 16 | When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over . |
| 17 | Keep the rudder where it is and allow the speed to increase a few knots so that both you and the student can observe the exact position of the rudder pedals . |
| 18 | On a warm day , the instructions said , it would be sufficient for the horseman to place a few drops on his perspiring forehead to call his horses from a fair distance without saying a word , or making any sound . |
| 19 | Most impressive was a demonstration of real-time speech to text , where Digital Equipment Corp 's chief tempted fate by getting the machine to translate a few words . |
| 20 | Most impressive was a demonstration of real-time speech to text , where Digital Equipment Corp 's chief tempted fate by getting the machine to translate a few words . |
| 21 | Mr McNeil said the region had tried but failed to persuade the CRE to conduct the same inquiry on a nationwide basis , and regretted its decision to proceed . |
| 22 | The A.896 road through the pass remains narrow with passing places , although a few parking spaces have been cut out of the verges to accommodate the many car owners who come to walk . |
| 23 | For the museum to attract the same visitors more than once there must be some evidence of change . ’ |
| 24 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 25 | Would it not be nice for the SRU to encourage the latter course and pick a full Scotland team to meet them , treating the match as a full ‘ capped ’ game ? |
| 26 | Both are hoping to develop the reading habit , to encourage the child to explore the many pleasures of reading ( and of the growing number of items in audio-visual format ) , and to gain practice in this essential skill as well as in discrimination . |
| 27 | Another factor causing untoward proliferation of spreadsheet files is the need to analyse the same information in different ways . |
| 28 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 29 | This would reinforce their belief in the need to help the latter group of newspapers rather than simply leaving them to market forces . |
| 30 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |