Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] or [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To the 40,000 or so employees , the further 50,000 employed by their distributors , and some tens of thousands more employed by their suppliers I would say that I am delighted that Rover is part of British Aerospace . ’ |
| 2 | Despite the recent re-issue of Rewald 's classic monograph , we still lack a true catalogue raisonné , bringing together all the visual and documentary material and engaging with the fundamental issues ; for example , after the sensational exhibition of the Mellon waxes at the National Gallery in Washington in 1991 , there is an even greater need for a study of the relationship of the waxes to the 1,500 or so bronze casts scattered throughout the world ; more understanding of Degas ' techniques and the reproductive processes used by his founder is urgently required ; a consideration of the images themselves , and their place in contemporary sculpture , is conspicuous by its absence ; and , the biggest question of all , the role of these wax figures in the wider oeuvre cries out to be examined . |
| 3 | The statutory requirement should no longer apply to the 250,000 or so companies that are below the VAT registration threshold of £36,600 , and those companies which meet the VAT cash accounting limit requirements ( £300,000 ) should be allowed to opt out of the audit provided there is unanimous agreement among the shareholders . |
| 4 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
| 5 | In addition to the 40 or so institutions in Scotland known to have collections of foreign ethnographic material , otherwise referred to as ‘ material culture ’ or ‘ tribal art ’ , it is certain that there are a far greater number of such collections in private and public ownership which have not been made known . |
| 6 | It was home to a million or so settlers of European origin , the so-called " pieds noirs " . |