Example sentences of "[noun] to [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking for a written statement is often a prelude to presenting an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 2 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 3 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 4 | The transport union TGWU yesterday claimed the last hope of reviving the Manchester docks had been jeopardised by the Manchester Ship Canal company 's indifference to obtaining a new shipping service which union officials valued at £1.5million annually . |
| 5 | And she made clear only last week the depth of her opposition to giving the European Parliament more power . |
| 6 | While the ecclesiastical commission was deliberating , the government put its mind to resolving the complex set of problems which had arisen in the universities . |
| 7 | Today we have arranged an early morning boat excursion on the holy river Ganges to seen the Bathing Ghats and the cremation sites . |
| 8 | CONSIDERATION is being given by Powys ' highways department to providing a right turning lane for traffic on the A483 trunk road in Newtown , following concern expressed by Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council for the safety of pedestrians crossing the road between the Do It All superstore and the Safeways supermarket . |
| 9 | I shall give some space in this chapter to considering the single threads , the first strands , how they are chosen and set into place . |
| 10 | Arafat committed the PLO to supporting the Iraqi invasion of Aug. 2 , 1990 , despite objections from Egypt that this would undermine the PLO 's long-standing opposition to the acquisition of territories by force , and would also rule out any immediate prospect of resuming the US-PLO dialogue [ see also p. 37637 ] . |
| 11 | There is a useful analogy here with Monte Carlo significance testing which could be used to add a further degree of inferential screening to assessing the descriptive significance of the uncertainty bands in the context of a particular application . |
| 12 | Inland Revenue employees discovered this when they took a claim — that the Revenue 's requirement that they transfer from manual methods to using a computerised system was in breach of contract — to the High Court . |
| 13 | Your generation will be the key to shaping the new Europe and seizing the new opportunities that could not be imagined during the Cold War . |
| 14 | Training is also the key to unlocking the vast , untapped potential of individual women and men . |
| 15 | Slavery is the key to unlocking the third chamber of Kane 's theorem about why blacks excel in sport : ‘ Of all the physical and psychological theories about the American black 's excellence in sport , none has proved more controversial than one of the least discussed : that slavery weeded out the weak ’ ( Kane , 1971 , p.80 ) . |
| 16 | The key to enjoying the martial arts is perseverance . |
| 17 | Central to this team is the ward sister , and she is the key to creating a good learning environment . |
| 18 | Whether you 'd like to improve your existing bathroom or install a completely new one , careful planning is the key to creating an attractive and comfortable room . |
| 19 | The sound knowledge of local living costs obtained from BI/COL will help provide the key to achieving the right renumeration package . |
| 20 | The key to selecting the appropriate assets is as follows : ( 1 ) First , understand what the business is that the purchaser wishes to buy . |
| 21 | The key to understanding the religious function of these images is found in the gun motif . |
| 22 | This time the key to understanding the changing pattern is the starkly contrasting geographies of decline and of growth . |
| 23 | This tension between change and continuity is the key to understanding the inner meaning as opposed to the outward form of working-class sport . |
| 24 | And this , as we now proceed to discuss , is the crucial interaction which we see as the key to understanding the penal crisis and responses to it . |
| 25 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 26 | However , it is this latter point that holds the key to understanding the different views , and , although a full analysis is beyond the scope of this book , it is worth exploring briefly . |
| 27 | The key to finding a good paper is to look for those which are acid-free and firm enough to withstand your own drawing technique . |
| 28 | The software is the key to finding the right computer these days . |
| 29 | The Conservatives returned to their panacea of imperial protectionism and even the Liberals , the historic party of free trade , began to question the dogma , influenced by Lloyd George 's experience in running the war economy and Keynes 's argument that deficit budgeting behind temporary import restrictions was the key to triggering a domestic economic revival . |
| 30 | The way in which culture is itself understood provides the key to grasping the extraordinary convergence between left and right , antiracist and avowedly racist over precisely what race and racism add up to . |