Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 2 | The full supply voltage is applied to the winding and the current is rapidly boosted to slightly above rated . |
| 3 | The writers of the four Gospels show their awareness of this strategy by the emphasis they place on his relationship to the twelve and the teaching he shares with them . |
| 4 | But it remains to be seen whether NFC is a throw-back to the 1970s or a model for the 1990s . |
| 5 | Organisational reforms have tried to help them find a voice : through positive discrimination in the form of reserved seats on committees at all levels ; through National Women 's Officers ; through Women 's Advisory Committees which run parallel to the decision-making committees of the unions and have free access to the latter but no voting rights . |
| 6 | It was returned to the latter and the purchaser brought an action against the seller under section 12 . |
| 7 | Presumably the employee would have led evidence as to the latter if the employer 's accounts had indeed contained such information . |
| 8 | The Whigs favoured the accession to the throne , on the queen 's death , of the Elector of Hanover , the later George I. They demanded that England should give effective support on the continent to the Dutch and the Emperor against Louis XIV during the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1702–13 ) . |
| 9 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 10 | In relation to the disclosure to the defence of material in the possession of the prosecution , the key is fairness to the accused but the practice varies between different jurisdictions in the common law world . |
| 11 | If the answer turns out to be by a ‘ dock identification ’ ( i.e. the witness is identified for the first time in court ) then it must be remembered that this procedure is potentially so unfair to the accused that the court of trial retains a discretion to prevent it ( Horsham JJ. , ex p . |
| 12 | For the past weeks Edouard had had to force himself to look at newspapers : all he saw there when he opened them was confirmation and repetition : accident , sickness , violence and sudden death , handed out evenly to the guilty and the innocent . |
| 13 | The keeper of Natural History was Ramsay Traquair , an authority on fossil fishes from the 1890s to the 1920s and the museum became a Mecca for Stan always hungry to learn more . |
| 14 | I ca n't swear to the following but the headmaster said Basil was undoubtedly a gentleman , but he 'd rather not have his brother in case he turned out the same . |
| 15 | There are many parts of greater energy in Jane Eyre , than , none equal to the following and the quotation is the death of Helen Burns . |
| 16 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
| 17 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 18 | Colin our man at Lane as always , comprehensive coverage of that game throughout the evening , including some second half commentary as well , we 'll be sharing that second half commentary certainly as things stand at the moment with the game at er in the Coca Cola Cup third round replay where there could be a shock , third division Shrewsbury against premiership Blackburn , although at the moment the premiership team are doing pretty well , Blackburn already a goal to the good and the goal scorer now confirmed as Mike after six minutes . |
| 19 | Held : Upon an appeal by Mr Stone 's widow it was held that an occupier who intended to permit another person to enter and use the premises for a limited period of time had to give a clear indication to the other that the permission was subject to a time limit . |
| 20 | At the lower levels their aim was to promote aid from less unfortunate households to the poor and the starving . |
| 21 | My conclusions are that work which looks to family law as instrument is inadequate ; the ‘ school-rules concept ’ of law overlooks law 's part in representing and naturalizing ‘ the way things are ’ ; law 's self-denying ordinance in relation to the personal and the private is a cultural construct and not an inevitable element of ideas of law or justice . |
| 22 | Not only is the relation in the latter between Homeric ‘ myth ’ and modern novel one of irony and transformation ; in it the ‘ myth ’ , oddly enough , is given a higher and more assured status as something less sophisticated , more archetypal , closer to the holy and the divine . |
| 23 | All these conservatives sit at their conference saying what they 're going to do to the unemployed and the fraud and what have you ! |
| 24 | Keep to work and sanity and open air — to the cheerful and the matter of fact side of things . |
| 25 | Force a keyboard input to signal to the CLI that the command file EE.CLI has terminated . |
| 26 | His style of preaching is clearly seen in his books such as A Call to the Unconverted and The Saint 's Everlasting Rest which were prepared from sermonic material . |
| 27 | The Earth 's magnetic flux is , therefore , from Antartica to the Arctic and a compass needle aligns itself with this . |
| 28 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 29 | I found in Subject B the greater sciatic notch to be wide and shallow and the ischial tuberosities to be everted , the ilia inclined to the vertical and the brim of the pelvis almost circular in outline . |
| 30 | It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’ |