Example sentences of "[noun] to [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel Trovoada , an independent opposition leader who had returned from exile to the islands in May 1990 [ see p. 37674 ] , was elected President on March 3 , 1991 . |
| 2 | The interests of commerce sometimes have a nationalistic tinge : in a recent decision a United States court referred in its reasoning to the interests in maintaining New York as a leading commercial centre . |
| 3 | ‘ If I die abroad in exile , let my body rest in a temporary grave until my mortal remains be transferred to our dear homeland , ’ said the Montenegrin President , Branko Kostic , reading the royal will and testament to the crowds in Cetinje Square , who carried flags and portraits of Nicholas and his queen , Milena . |
| 4 | The prosecution tried to rebutt this defence by offerring evidence of a statement made by the defendant to the police in which he inferred that he wanted to get rid of the person he attacked . |
| 5 | To combat it , he made a series of important trips to the provinces in the autumn of 1944 . |
| 6 | May we open our eyes to the problems in the world around us and may we do whatever we can to make other people 's lives happier . |
| 7 | At present , it 's still safe to lift one 's eyes to the hills in that quarter . |
| 8 | However , his voyages as supercargo on ships in the ‘ country trade ’ between India and China opened his eyes to the opportunities in Singapore and Canton . |
| 9 | Natural selection was not the only scientific manifestation of this spirit , but Darwinism supplied useful catch-phrases such as ‘ the survival of the fittest ’ , which could be used by those seeking a scientific justification for their indifference to the losers in Nature 's great race . |
| 10 | Adopting the theology of liberation , the main body of the Salvadorean church therefore became identified with opposition to the regimes in power during the 1970s . |
| 11 | Belgrade was returned to the Turks in exchange for minor territorial concessions to the Austrians in northern Bosnia . |
| 12 | In his absence the regents made concessions to the magnates in return for grants of taxes in aid of the war with Scotland . |
| 13 | However , in the light of the importance of this decision to the United States ' court , to the parties to the proceedings in that court and in clarifying the law of England , we announced our intention of expressing our full reasons in writing to be delivered at a later date . |
| 14 | Prejudgments should stand or fall according to whether they pass the statutory test of section 2(2) by causing a substantial risk of serious prejudice to the proceedings in question . |
| 15 | Any assessment of the significance of the Glorious Revolution , therefore , must give due weight to the ways in which the tensions between the Church and Dissent interacted with the constitutional conflicts that shaped Restoration politics , and once we do this , the Revolution appears in a fundamentally different light . |
| 16 | He strengthened the forces holding the gateway fortresses and initiated the system of rotating units to the forts in succession so that the forces holding these valuable citadels would always be fresh and near to full strength . |
| 17 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 18 | This is not how it appears in practice to the workers in the bureau . |
| 19 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 20 | I am just writing to recommend Central American Cichlids to the beginners in the hobby . |
| 21 | The peasantry on a manor or seigneurie paid rent to the lords in money and in service . |
| 22 | This Liverpool evidence — the patronizing condescension and occasional bullying by the middle classes and the supplicant individual contact from the occasional member of the lower stratum — is congruent with the overall profile of class relationships to the police in Britain . |
| 23 | It seems to me appropriate and indeed perhaps essential that one should offer a brief biographical sketch of Proust on an occasion like this , but I shall try to avoid the unbalance of which I 've spoken , by at least relating the biography to the circumstances in which the novel was written , and I shall in any case spend the major part of the time that remains on an examination of the novel itself . |
| 24 | The Teacher 's Book contains additional ideas on how best to exploit the Student 's Book , photocopiable progress tests , tapescripts , and a key to the exercises in the Workbook . |
| 25 | A strip on the left-hand side of the screen provides a key to the symbols in use and a square for issue date and approval . |
| 26 | 1816 " The meeting have now to relieve Shawfield of the sums now payble. to the Schools in Islay , charge themselves with the said sum , as a provision for four Schoolmasters , at the rate of £16:13:4 Sterl. to each . " |
| 27 | Sue Baring continued : ‘ The Liberal Democrats are the only credible alternative to the Conservatives in this constituency . |
| 28 | It would be appropriate here simply to give a brief outline of events , and then limit any review to the ways in which it is relevant to John Howard and his cause . |
| 29 | At the council of Gumley in Leicestershire two years later , possibly as a response to some of Boniface 's criticisms , Aethelbald issued a grant of privileges to the churches in Mercia , conceding immunity from royal food-rents and from all works and burdens except the building of bridges and the defence of fortresses against enemies ( CS 140 , 178 : S 92 ) . |
| 30 | To examine the effects of PSL , SASP , and 5-ASA on ADCC activity as well as on natural and lymphokine activated killer activity , those drugs were added at various concentrations to the cultures in all three kinds of assays already described . |