Example sentences of "[noun] to [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 2 | Last year 58 groups in Wales received grants of up to £750 towards practical projects ranging from the creation of a wildlife pond to setting up a community recycling scheme . |
| 3 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 4 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 5 | Discover the payoff and you unlock the key to affecting how a person can be influenced . |
| 6 | This gave them the key to predicting both the location and approximate intensity of the earthquakes , with a delay of between 7 and 11 hours from the prediction to the event . |
| 7 | It was the historic moment when the rule of the people , the idea of democracy , was seen as the only legitimate form of government and as the key to sweeping away the rule of individual despots and arrogant oligarchies , and when articulate voices were not afraid to proclaim their faith in the virtues and good judgement of the people as a whole . |
| 8 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 9 | As an aid to training both the new and upgrade user , Adobe have repeated their inclusion of a video which both demonstrates features and provides a basic tutorial . |
| 10 | To teach a list of ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention . |
| 11 | To teach ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention . |
| 12 | To teach ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention |
| 13 | Federal law was always superior to Länder law and the Länder were restricted in many areas to carrying out the policies of the Bonn government . |
| 14 | The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture . |
| 15 | Whatever the reasons for their change from their nautiloid ancestors , the ammonoids were an enormously successful group : thousands of different species have been described , and their variety is so bewildering that many specialists devote their lives to studying only the ammonoids of a particular , short time period . |
| 16 | As an aside , the need to drawn up a will becomes particularly pressing if there are children to be considered , and do n't forget that marriage revokes the will of either partner , unless that is , it was drawn up in anticipation of the wedding . |
| 17 | An added incentive to tracking down the railways is that they are invariably in rural France , away from the speeding motorway traffic . |
| 18 | Further , there is a significant grief reaction to giving up the substance or process of addiction itself . |
| 19 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 20 | And bamboo is such a vigorous grower , a visit here can bring a whole new meaning to picking up a pot plant . |
| 21 | Third , the particular reputational approach used by Hunter presupposed that which remained to be proven — that there is a group of forty people in whose hands power in Atlanta is concentrated — by devoting all his efforts to finding out the names of people who appear to belong to this elite . |
| 22 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 23 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) criticised me for not giving a clear commitment to setting up a funding council . |
| 25 | And the final year of the company 's three-year commitment to cleaning up the Alaskan coast is about to begin . |
| 26 | One barrier to giving even a provisional answer is the fact that we , as historians , have very little idea what is actually out there . |
| 27 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 28 | A more detailed , step-by-step guide to setting up a bookshop — written by the Hammersmith & Fulham Group — appears in the new Amnesty International Fundraising Guide . |
| 29 | These are average changes within the normal speed operating range , but , using this method , you will have a reasonable guide to setting up a certain performance . |
| 30 | Join us for a step-by-step guide to setting up an Amazon tank , an in-depth guide to breeding the large but well-mannered cichlid , Theraps nicaraguense , a look at the marine stunner , the Emperor Angel and winter pond management . ’ |