Example sentences of "[noun] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we find in fact for the levels radiation that used , the risks to the individual patients are very very low indeed er generally less than one in a thousand chance of some adverse effect . |
| 2 | For women , this again means another medical reason for interference in our fertility and pregnancy , and it also begs questions about risks to the resulting children , and the ethics of having scientists make such profound changes to human beings . |
| 3 | With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels . |
| 4 | The successors to the old skins tended to side with the teds , who were pro-British and for the Union Jack , whereas the punks were anti-royalist and happy to stick safety-pins into pictures of the Queen . |
| 5 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Miss Lowe remembers her kindness to the smaller children , her love of animals and general helpfulness but not her academic potential . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But although nurses had acquired heightened managerial opportunities they were ill-equipped by tradition or training to take advantage of them and often simply managerially incompetent ( Strong and Robinson 1990 ) , an ineffective counterweight to the medical members . |
| 10 | Pressing our itching ears to the caressing fingers . |
| 11 | Avoiding their curious glances , she walked round to the hardware section and tried to shut her ears to the whispered conversations that suddenly broke out as soon as she was out of sight . |
| 12 | And Mr Gorbachev was far too late in proposing a new deal to the various republics . |
| 13 | We owe a great deal to the United Nations Secretary-General and to Mr. Picco who have worked tirelessly with others to secure the release of the hostages . |
| 14 | The decisions on how much to spend , on what , and where , are made in Congress itself , through the mosaic of committees and subcommittees of the Senate and the House of Representatives which both legislate for and make appropriations to the particular programmes operated by the more than 30 separate departments of the Federal state apparatus . |
| 15 | Finally , we are resolving the Baltic gold question , in a prompt and effective manner , which will give an important boost to the Baltic economies . |
| 16 | Madness , who attracted 65,000 fans to the two concerts netted over £100,000 in merchandising sales and now plan a full-scale British tour . |
| 17 | Before my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State makes the order giving statutory force to the 1992 schoolteachers ' pay and conditions document , he is required under the 1991 Act to consult interested parties on the review body 's recommendations on the Government 's proposals for implementation . |
| 18 | These changes provide an opportunity for the ‘ mode of thought ’ of the rational model to act ‘ as a countervailing force to the well-documented tendencies within organisations and departments to perpetuate existing policies and resist innovation and change ’ ( Leach 1982:7 ) . |
| 19 | The same argument applies with even greater force to the parliamentary candidates — Jones , Thorne , Davis and Gardner . |
| 20 | Figures in italics indicate the implications of the transfer of part of the pre-1971 outer ring to the Metropolitan Districts of Newcastle and North Tyneside . |
| 21 | Heath immediately proposed a coalition to the 14 Liberals who had been returned . |
| 22 | On March 10 Roman attributed the NSF losses to the economic difficulties in the cities , which had thus far borne the brunt of economic restructuring , and to the divisions within the party . |
| 23 | As soon as the Conservatives came into office , there had been some signals to the nationalised industries that financial disciplines were likely to displace physical controls on investment . |
| 24 | Somare , however , maintained his strong anti-separatist position on Irian Jaya by threatening to hand over any guerrillas found in PNG to the Indonesian authorities [ see also p. 37577 ] . |
| 25 | Her status as a separate kingdom was guaranteed ; and if there were no heirs of the marriage , succession to the respective thrones would diverge , leaving Mary 's Scottish heir to inherit her crown . |
| 26 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 27 | Only sixteen Unionist MPs were baronets ( less than the number of Liberals , a testament to the eight years of Liberal government ) , and these were the owners of new wealth rather than old titles . |
| 28 | Across the river from my house , hanging over the road to Honeydew from Petrolia , in far northern California , six hours drive above San Francisco , is a cliff face some 300 feet high , whose face is a constantly changing testament to the subterranean upheavals that make this region the most seismically active on the North American continent . |
| 29 | And they are a perfect testament to the canny Victorians ' sense of foresight . |
| 30 | The second capacitor is connected through a ganged switch to the one-tenth tappings of the same windings and so on . |