Example sentences of "[noun] to [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , the arts briefly hit the headlines when President Bush unedifyingly threw the Head of the National Endowment for the Arts to the wolves of the right–wing electorate because the NEA had sponsored some difficult , and , in particular , sexually explicit arts projects in recent years . |
| 2 | I must offer my condolence to the families of the victims . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The tragedy which caused the deaths of six people at Sowerby Bridge brought tremendous grief to the families of those who died and was a tragedy to the community itself . ’ |
| 4 | The Smiths are acknowledged as writing with sensitivity , depth and intelligence and the suggestion that they are cashing in on a tragedy at the expense of causing grief to the relatives of its victims is absolutely untrue . |
| 5 | This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot . |
| 6 | This idea of the innovative power of movements obviously owes a great deal to the events of the 1960s when there appeared quite suddenly large-scale movements expressing profound discontent with , and opposition to , the existing social and political order . |
| 7 | Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million . |
| 8 | A similar boost to the imports of Eastern Europe ( excluding the Soviet Union ) would be worth some $7.5billion a year for five years . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , a slot on the Underground can be a big boost to the careers of unknown painters . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , a slot in the Underground can be a big boost to the careers of unknown painters . |
| 11 | Now firmly established as the most prestigious forum for recognition of excellence and innovation in Irish music and radio , the Smithwicks Hot Press Awards provide a useful benchmark in the progress of established acts and an invaluable boost to the careers of newer acts . |
| 12 | He was not acting illegally , as no Act of Parliament gave statutory force to the terms of the Charter of 1844 . |
| 13 | Both these latter points , though Macdonald does not connect them , appear to lend some force to the arguments of Edinburgh employers that by the end of the century , they were not so much drawing extra work to Edinburgh as desperately trying to stem an inexorable decline of the Edinburgh trade , occasioned both by its geographical distance from London ( incurring freight costs and inconvenience , which would have affected bookbinding equally ) and by its comparatively high rents and cost of living ( as compared to country towns like Frome ) . |
| 14 | This applied with special force to the discoveries of medical science ; life and death were no longer defined in terms of ‘ the Lord giveth , the Lord taketh away ’ . |
| 15 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 16 | On this the evidence is conflicting , some studies finding that take-overs were value-creating , others that target shareholder gains were more that off-set by losses to the shareholders of the acquiring companies . |
| 17 | Others ascribe the weakening of community consciousness to the failures of the churches to inculcate a sense of moral responsibility into the population , to the fashion for ‘ permissiveness ’ in education in the 1960s and 1970s which undermined respect for authority , and to the failures of parents to control their children . |
| 18 | His chief importance to Edward was that he was a substantial landowner in Normandy and was at odds with John II over the succession to the counties of Angoulême and Mortain . |
| 19 | JESUS CHRIST ! ’ when he should n't feasibly be capable of breathing — a testament to the levels of punishment Sugar inflict upon themselves , at the very least . |
| 20 | This monument is a worthy testament to the men of the RCAF , who flew from Croft . |
| 21 | The two published a number of works together and , after Moseley 's death in 1661 , Herringman purchased from Moseley 's estate copyrights to the poems of Abraham Cowley , Richard Crashaw , Sir John Denham , John Donne , Sir John Suckling , and Edmund Waller [ qq.v. ] , as well as some of the plays of Ben Jonson and Sir William Davenant [ qq.v . ] . |
| 22 | From now on you will listen with increased appreciation to the speeches of others . |
| 23 | The emancipation of the poor and oppressed is thus made part of a civilizing process , which is often seen to be conditional on assimilating their demands to the discourses of humanism and rationalism . |
| 24 | All we would do is transfer people from rural districts to the ranks of the unemployed in urban ones . |
| 25 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 26 | The parallels , such as they are , between 511 and 561 , together with the arrangements made to cope with the death of Charibert , lend a spurious uniformity to the divisions of the Merovingian kingdom , but one which is , at first sight , supported by the events of 595 . |
| 27 | 1987 ) the court held that the police had wrongly considered the theft of 28 dogs owned by a Hunt as a serious arrestable offence as the loss to the members of the Hunt could not be considered a serious financial loss . |
| 28 | There were some departures from the norm : just after the First World War several tour operators organized trips to the battlefields of France and Belgium . |
| 29 | Free time now means catching up with the things they have missed out on in the past : novels by Michael Moorcock and Toni Morrison , the new Australian cinema , opera cassettes borrowed from the public library , gardening and fishing , weekend trips to the landscapes of their respective childhoods . |
| 30 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |