Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [indef pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stairway brought one to a first-floor lobby , a vast room of chandeliers and mahogany panelling and bentwood chairs with velvet cushions . |
| 2 | Such readings of the text lead one to the conclusion that patriarchal presuppositions are woven into the writing in such a way that they can not be extricated . |
| 3 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 4 | The general appearance of the cars owed something to the American inter-urban , almost the only example of this type in Britain . |
| 5 | This is because the crime of indecent assault requires the defendant to do something to the victim . |
| 6 | Rather than ‘ structuring tasks for collaboration ’ , it was more a process of ‘ structuring a learning environment for collaboration ’ , with each of the elements contributing something to the whole and therefore needing to be understood in relation to the whole . |
| 7 | A hearing may be adjourned if either you or the Council say anything to the Committee , or produce something in writing which the other did not know about beforehand , and it is so important that you or the Council want time to think about it before proceeding . |
| 8 | Not only does the picture add nothing to the text but it also does n't convey as much about the incident as the text . |
| 9 | The man in the booth did something to the turnstile , then we all pushed in . |
| 10 | But the name meant nothing to the visitor ; obviously his fame had not penetrated the student community . |
| 11 | The foreman yelled something to the ceiling in another language and stomped toward the door saying , ‘ The whole world is crazy , I tell you . |
| 12 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |
| 13 | At his first approach to man-machine conversation , the system analyst often tends to think of the man as originating each part : the man says something to the computer and the computer replies . |
| 14 | ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing . |
| 15 | Thus the illustration contributes nothing to the text , which runs ‘ Edward [ actually Edgar ! ] lightly sprung aside and avoided the cut aimed at him , and then delivered a blow with all his force just in front of the ear , and the man dropped again as if shot . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The Mamelukes did nothing to the hurt of Kyrenia , because the King stopped them . |
| 17 | A loud gong from the house summoned everyone to the driveway to greet the master . |
| 18 | Indeed , many authors expect and require the reader to bring something to the text . |