Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 2 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 3 | And indeed , Tarpy and McIntosh ( 1977 ) , using a procedure likely to be more sensitive ( involving , among other things , a weaker US and prolonged testing ) , were able to demonstrate substantial latent inhibition in rats given exposure to a variety of flavours before conditioning . |
| 4 | Kalat and Rozin ( 1973 ) suggested that subjects given exposure to a novel flavour are capable of learning that the flavour predicts no aversive consequence , that the taste is ‘ safe ’ . |
| 5 | At the age of twenty-two he returned to Ireland and on his father 's advice sought admission to the National Deaf Mute College in America for a degree course . |
| 6 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 7 | The narrator himself — the subject of his poem — joins in , and offers sympathy to the defeated party . |
| 8 | Coldness , blueness , or numbness of the injury , or the part beyond the injury , suggesting damage to the blood or nervous supply of that area . |
| 9 | He became Clerk to the Governors after Ellis 's death in 1957 , a Governor in 1962 when Gilchrist was appointed Bursar and Clerk , Vice Chairman in 1973 , and Chairman on the retirement of Lt. Col. Christie-Miller in 1975 . |
| 10 | They had three sons : one became clerk to the Goldsmiths ’ Company , one an entomologist , and the third was killed in the war of 1914–18 . |
| 11 | Contracting may be effective because it makes evasion difficult , facilitates communication , and offers rewards to the patient . |
| 12 | Special designs , trial runs and samples were all part of winning the order as the production unit and design studio lent support to the sales effort . |
| 13 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 14 | With several modifications , such varied anthropologists as D. Forde [ 1948 ] , M. Fortes ] 1953 ] , and M. Sahlins [ 1961 ] have given support to the view that segmentary systems , the modern anthropological equivalent of Morgan 's ‘ gentile systems ’ , seem to occur in societies with similar technologies and they are by and large of the type postulated in The Origin . |
| 15 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 16 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 17 | He is scathing in his attacks on those French politicians , journalists and writers who " have collaborated in word and deed with the policies of Hitler " , and who " at critical moments have given support to the guiding principles of these policies : antisemitism , anti-communism , anti-democracy , hegemonic mission of the Reich in Europe , national-socialist " pacifism " . |
| 18 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
| 19 | In addition to the emergency grants to individuals and small teams , the foundation has also given $500,000 to the Komarov Botanical Institute in St Petersburg for the preservation of one of the world 's largest herbaria , Some $80,000 was awarded to a popular science magazine Chemistry and Life and $4,000 was given to a special high school in Moscow that maintains high standards for teaching physics and mathematics . |
| 20 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 21 | Adding some hormone rooting powder to the wound can help the plant establish new roots . |
| 22 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 23 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 24 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
| 25 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 26 | Both stylolites and solution seams transect the cemented sediment and develop perpendicular to the axis of maximum stress , which may be either overburden pressure or tectonic stress . |
| 27 | Bye-law 76 makes members liable for disciplinary action when they enter an IVA , but whether the Investigation Committee refers cases to the Disciplinary Committee or not will depend on a member 's attitude to the arrangement , rather than on its causes . |
| 28 | They also want the station to expand in order to be able to transmit programmes to a wider area . |
| 29 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
| 30 | And many pests have developed resistance to the most commonly used pesticides . |