Example sentences of "[noun] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rider does n't just lean the bike into the corner — he knocks the machine on to its side , pushing heavily on the right handlebar to turn the front wheel to the left and drop the machine to the right . |
| 2 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 3 | Papyrus enabled the ancients to spread their religion to a wider audience . |
| 4 | This is the main appeal of religion to the vast majority of believers , who may or may not have the ‘ oceanic ’ feeling of the more mystically inclined . |
| 5 | By uncovering the contribution made by ‘ serious ’ religion to the wider Ulster society by c1900 this study will make more comprehensible many neglected aspects of life and custom in the twentieth-century Ulster . |
| 6 | He was also a key factor in transplanting New England religion to the newer Northern states , especially Ohio . |
| 7 | Now we find in fact for the levels radiation that used , the risks to the individual patients are very very low indeed er generally less than one in a thousand chance of some adverse effect . |
| 8 | For women , this again means another medical reason for interference in our fertility and pregnancy , and it also begs questions about risks to the resulting children , and the ethics of having scientists make such profound changes to human beings . |
| 9 | Edward Hudson of Country Life enlisted her services in making that periodical the exponent of culture and the arts to a wide public . |
| 10 | The newly appointed Minister for National Heritage , David Mellor , ( left ) presents a £50,000 cheque on behalf of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts to the new president of the Lord 's Taverners , Leslie Crowther , at the charity 's St George 's Day concert at the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 11 | Arts Council officers are understood to be considering changing the practice of handing out separate information about the arts to the different political party conferences . |
| 12 | The CDU and FDP , as legal successors to the former " block parties " which had been ancillary to the SED , declared that they would transfer assets belonging to those East German parties to the Treuhand trustee agency . |
| 13 | Ukraine put forward a proposal making all members of the CIS successors to the former Soviet Union and dividing its property abroad between them , in proportion to their original contribution . |
| 14 | Many will be the writers who composed on early Amstrads , and how will we ensure that their working discs , successors to the invaluable rough note-books and diaries of writers like W H Auden and Graham Greene or campaigners like Marie Stopes , which we already possess , can be used as readily by future generations of scholars ? |
| 15 | Ten of these are the successors to the regional water authorities and they also provide sewerage services . |
| 16 | Publishers were not slow to realize the potential of the new market , releasing a spate of books and magazines which were the successors to the elitist Victorian guide book and the predecessors of the glossy coffee-table number for contemporary leisure motorists . |
| 17 | With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels . |
| 18 | The successors to the old skins tended to side with the teds , who were pro-British and for the Union Jack , whereas the punks were anti-royalist and happy to stick safety-pins into pictures of the Queen . |
| 19 | Gun-mikes are generally restricted to outdoor use ; indoors , sound reflections off walls defeat the directional characteristics to a large extent . |
| 20 | The duties of the deacon were specified as ‘ to administer baptism solemnly , to be custodian and dispenser of the Eucharist , to assist at and bless marriages in the name of the Church , to bring viaticum to the dying , to read the Sacred Scriptures to the faithful , to instruct and exhort the people , to preside at the worship and prayer of the faithful , to administer Sacramentals , and to officiate at funeral and burial services ’ . |
| 21 | Balfour , directed by the pistol 's point , moved with speed but dignity from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office . |
| 22 | One man alone remembered his forgotten humanity , and the Spirit of God flared within him with the brightness of Eden , and against the crowd , with the dignity of a true son of God , he offered some unrefined wine on a sponge to the dying king . |
| 23 | The Institute bankers were being changed from Lloyds to the Royal Bank of Scotland in order to obtain better interest rate bands on cash deposited . |
| 24 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 25 | He can not alter a departmental decision or award compensation but may suggest an appropriate remedy to the appropriate Minister . |
| 26 | One teacher I interviewed in my middle school study , for instance , felt she had not been well treated in the reorganization to a middle school set-up and had resisted the head 's attempts at change ‘ We do n't , some of us do n't change so easily ! ’ |
| 27 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
| 28 | The development of Mosley 's economic ideas in the 1920s showed a gradual transition from a socialist to a nationalist Perspective . |
| 29 | Perhaps there is a hidden agenda here — a desire for mainstream success in America , a need to introduce old songs to a new audience , a bid for Radio 2 playlisting — but I doubt it . |
| 30 | The full glory of Chuck Prophet 's twisted Telecastering is definitely best savoured live , but the latest release from Green On Red sees the errant duo of Prophet and Dan Stuart re-writing the same old songs to the same good effect . |