Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Increase in value of asset The receipt or accrual of the income operates to increase the value to the individual of any assets held by him or for his benefit . |
| 2 | Sometimes he could feel as if this were a frontier post , with everything out there just waiting and passing time until the opportunity came to grab the territory back . |
| 3 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 4 | Secondly , the opportunity exists to reassess the rational or political approaches to resource management practice . |
| 5 | One minute , your students are ploughing through a set of grammar exercises with apparent ease ; the next , when the opportunity arises to use the same language in a real context , dreadful mistakes occur . |
| 6 | At the same time she can take the opportunity to try to build the esteem of those class members who lack confidence and are finding the work slightly embarrassing . |
| 7 | When he sought to do this from the pulpit of St Paul 's on 5 November 1709 ( the anniversary of the gunpowder treason plot , when preachers usually reserved their invective for Catholics ) , and combined it with a defence of the doctrines of passive-obedience and non-resistance , the Whig ministry of the day decided to use the opportunity to try to discredit the Church in Danger platform . |
| 8 | As well as the company brochure , employees were given documentation on the five counties surrounding the relocation area so that they had the opportunity to get to know the areas before visiting them . |
| 9 | Until 13 October visitors will have the opportunity to get to know the Austrian painter Alois Riedl as a draughtsman . |
| 10 | This exhibition displays the principles of a worthy craft until the opportunity returns to construct the flights of fancy . |
| 11 | The majority failed to understand the motivation of some of the characters . |
| 12 | The majority preferred to believe the picturesque stories passed down by parents and grandparents , which were , of course , accepted as the gospel truth . |
| 13 | With gliders which have a front wheel or main skid , a main wheel just behind the c.g. and a tail-wheel or skid like the K13 , Grob 103 , ASK21 , Puchazc , Schweitzer 233 and most of the older single seaters , it may be necessary to ease back a little during the take-off run to raise the front wheel or skid . |
| 14 | At the right moment , the American dropped his flaps , the Yak banked to avoid the collision and ploughed straight down into the forest at three hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 15 | In the truncated finale , for instance ( given a puckish rather than a trenchant slant by Kun ) , I was all too conscious of moments when the speed of articulation and lively nature of the acoustic conspired to widen the distance between soloist and woodwind , making for an uncomfortable out-of-phase sensation in their exchanges . |
| 16 | She was still crouched in the niche where the upright descended to join the girder . |
| 17 | The Bore likes to hear the sound of his own voice and jumps into each debate at the earliest opportunity , whether he has anything to offer or not . |
| 18 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 19 | For people like my daughter there is also the ethical dilemma to be faced on the funding needed to support the research work . |
| 20 | The direction , to your left , or to your right , in which the RC is displace from 0° to 180° , is the direction to turn to reach the track . |
| 21 | On the other hand , lifting a genuine wineglass a few feet in the air by sheer mental energy required several hours of systematic preparation if the wizard wished to prevent the simple principle of leverage flicking his brain out through his ears . |
| 22 | Oakeshott argues that the positivist fails to identify the essentially abstract character of science as a mode of experience . |
| 23 | Working on corpora of North American conversational data , they proceed very much from the bottom-up trying to establish the smallest units first . |
| 24 | The Scotsman chose to acknowledge the event by printing a colour photograph of three women in a fashion show . |
| 25 | The Reverend offered to forgo the proceedings , and Boswell advised Johnson of the ‘ over-delicate scrupulosity of our host ’ . |
| 26 | But to work out how successful a campaign has been , the retailer needs to balance the profit made against the amount of money he spent on the campaign . |
| 27 | In deciding where to put his units and counters , the retailer needs to consider the ‘ flow ’ of people through his shop — from the entry to the checkout point and exit . |
| 28 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise seasonal goods — eg camping equipment will be promoted in the spring , ready for the summer . |
| 29 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise … goods . |
| 30 | There is no way of knowing that the writer intended to write the word books , but by a lexical substitution error wrote boots instead . |