Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pulpit , Communion area and side aisles were all carpeted and the inside of the church painted to a colour-scheme prepared by Mr Brian Jeffers . |
| 2 | Such an analysis is part of the larger long-term programme of the NRPB devoted to a geographical study of malignancy in the UK . |
| 3 | There could be 2x + y , where x is the number both of the members appointed to a board of directors by the owners of the company , and of the trade union members ; and y the number of directors to be co-opted . |
| 4 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 5 | New industries and housebuilding in the south and east of the country led to a growth rate which rivalled that of the mid-Victorian era , and apart from a minor dip in the statistics in 1937 — 8 the sustained restructuring and recovery of the economy created many new jobs and reduced rates of unemployment in all but the most depressed areas dependent on the declining staple industries . |
| 6 | Drs Smith and Bothwell appeared to represent a minority view amongst our sample ; most of the respondents appealed to a different set of work orientations which emphasised personal involvement with patients ' problems , ‘ family doctoring ’ and continuity . |
| 7 | The ever changing moods of the sea build to a spectacular storm then subside into peace and tranquillity |
| 8 | It is accepted that not every ‘ foul ’ committed in breach of the rules amounts to a crime , and it seems to be assumed that players do , and may lawfully , consent to physical force over and above the minimum permitted by the rules . |
| 9 | Many teachers recognise that examinations do not measure experience and achievement ; they reflect the ability of the individual to respond to a number of questions , drawn from a substantial syllabus , at a particular time . |
| 10 | The friends of the Queen belong to a small coterie of aristocrats , the children are educated exclusively ( one of the reasons Gordonstoun seemed a good bet was because , unlike metropolitan Eton , it was miles away in rural Scotland ) , and all are limited to a narrow circle of suitable acquaintances . |
| 11 | Expert evidence was given to the effect that the chances of the child adjusting to a new life in Spain were very slim , and that failure to adjust would have very serious consequences on the child 's development . |
| 12 | Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament . |
| 13 | They turned south at last and began heading towards Ratagan 's home as their shadows lengthened and the second day of the patrol drew to a close . |
| 14 | What is the logic that dictates that the shareholders should be entitled to the corporate surplus , instead for instance of the employees or management , with the entitlement of the shareholders reduced to a fixed return on capital ? |
| 15 | The degenerate octamer-TAATGANAT oligonucleotides A and C differ only at position 11 ( see Fig. 4A ) and compete equally well for binding to the labelled ICP4 sequence as the completely homologous TAATGARAT sequence B. The Ad2 degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motif oligonucleotide A , which contains the first four bases of the octamer fused to a perfect TAATGARAT motif , seems to be a stronger competitor than oligonucleotides B and C. In summary , the results displayed in Fig. 4B and C clearly show that the POU domain of pou[c] binds with high affinity to the TAATGARAT and degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motifs and with very low affinity ( only detectable after overexposure of GMSA signals ) to the canonical octamer motif . |
| 16 | The steps were neatly blacked , the wood of the door polished to a satin finish . |
| 17 | Some panel members felt that time spent in discussion of the documentation led to a tight schedule and that this might have been avoided by an additional private meeting on the evening or day before the event . |
| 18 | The auberge was built on a knoll and the tops of the nearest trees were below eye level , their foliage a green sea ruffled into waves by the breeze , the rugged backdrop of the mountains softened to a warm gold by the evening sunlight . |
| 19 | The Latin origins of the word refer to a course in the sense of race-course , but its current meaning in education has moved some way from that . |
| 20 | He told a senior colleague there was only one place on that particular fifteen-mile stretch of road where a lorry might be expected to run off it , at a bend where the camber of the road sloped to a ditch . |
| 21 | The sound of the river increased to a roar . |
| 22 | Such coasts are often fronted by large shingle beaches , derived from the destruction of the cliffs , and the erosion of the cliff depends to a large extent on the protection afforded to it by the beach . |
| 23 | Even so it is only a more oblique reference to the same theme , since the Avignon of the title refers to a street in the prostitutes ' quarter of Barcelona . |
| 24 | This resonant behaviour of the system leads to a loss of motor torque at well-defined stepping rates , as illustrated by the dips in the pull-out torque/speed characteristic of Fig. 4.1 . |
| 25 | Social class may well be based on the occupation of the male head of the household according to a pre-determined scale , such as , in Britain , that of the Registrar general , or the Market Research Society . |
| 26 | £0.4 million of the increase relates to a favourable movement in the US$ exchange rate . |
| 27 | The modification is a summation of the probabilities assigned to a word in each window position in which the word exists . |
| 28 | One of the revisions relates to a matter which arises in this appeal , and I shall refer to it later . |
| 29 | The sharpness of the turn led to a bitter faction fight , at the end of which most of the recent recruits had either left or been ejected on the toe of Healy 's boot . |
| 30 | Green Fields , Grey Future , finds that 80 per cent of farmers received less than 10 per cent of the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) budget in 1990 ; 37 per cent of the budget went to a small number of large industrial farms , with the rest of the money being spent on storing and disposing of surplus farm products . |