Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Balfour , directed by the pistol 's point , moved with speed but dignity from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He can not alter a departmental decision or award compensation but may suggest an appropriate remedy to the appropriate Minister . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The development of Mosley 's economic ideas in the 1920s showed a gradual transition from a socialist to a nationalist Perspective . |
| 15 | Four members of the FMLN high command ( Jovel , Villalobos , Shafick Jorge Handal and Eduardo Sancho ) had returned from exile to an emotional welcome at San Salvador airport on Jan. 31 , accompanied by leading members of Latin American political parties including the Cuban Communist Party ( PCC ) and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) of Mexico . |
| 16 | Trompf also cites examples of reenactment in Hebrew historiography , such as the crossing of the Jordan in Joshua , which was consciously likened to the traversing of the Red Sea in Exodus , and the similarity of the Babylonian exile to the earlier Egyptian bondage . |
| 17 | Again , I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been . |
| 18 | SARAH MADDOCK turned in a five star show to help the Liverpool and District Association to a comfortable win in the north west inter-association age group competition at Everton Park . |
| 19 | The debt which never appears in any balance sheet or account is that owed by the Association to the fund-raising efforts of its supporters and the generosity of the public . |
| 20 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 21 | The mechanism of action of the ASFV protein similar to the eukaryotic TFIIS and to the vaccinia virus protein rpo30 could shed light on this matter , considering that the eukaryotic protein is an RNA polymerase-associated transcription factor , while rpo30 is considered a true enzyme subunit due to its tight association to the viral enzyme ( 10 ) . |
| 22 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 23 | Here Gabriel said to the eldest brother , " Because of your kindness to the poor traveller , you can make any wish and it will be granted . " |
| 24 | ‘ I see , ’ Craig said in amusement , ‘ so your kindness to the young lady was n't entirely for my benefit . ’ |
| 25 | Miss Lowe remembers her kindness to the smaller children , her love of animals and general helpfulness but not her academic potential . |
| 26 | His kindness to the old lady had been completely disinterested . |
| 27 | She twisted her head to catch the coroner 's eye as he scowled across at the innkeeper who was busy gossiping to the other customers around the great wine barrels . |
| 28 | And the mining communities , for decades the only real counterweight to a coup-prone army , are disappearing . |
| 29 | De Michelis freely admitted that the Italians now also saw in the Pentagonale the means to create a counterweight to the political and economic power of a united Germany . |
| 30 | Taken at face value their evidence was a powerful counterweight to the tenuous defence of accident and the defence needed all the information it could get in order to decide how best to attack the Crown case . |