Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 2 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 3 | And indeed , Tarpy and McIntosh ( 1977 ) , using a procedure likely to be more sensitive ( involving , among other things , a weaker US and prolonged testing ) , were able to demonstrate substantial latent inhibition in rats given exposure to a variety of flavours before conditioning . |
| 4 | Coldness , blueness , or numbness of the injury , or the part beyond the injury , suggesting damage to the blood or nervous supply of that area . |
| 5 | Contracting may be effective because it makes evasion difficult , facilitates communication , and offers rewards to the patient . |
| 6 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 7 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
| 8 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 9 | With several modifications , such varied anthropologists as D. Forde [ 1948 ] , M. Fortes ] 1953 ] , and M. Sahlins [ 1961 ] have given support to the view that segmentary systems , the modern anthropological equivalent of Morgan 's ‘ gentile systems ’ , seem to occur in societies with similar technologies and they are by and large of the type postulated in The Origin . |
| 10 | Adding some hormone rooting powder to the wound can help the plant establish new roots . |
| 11 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 12 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 13 | Both stylolites and solution seams transect the cemented sediment and develop perpendicular to the axis of maximum stress , which may be either overburden pressure or tectonic stress . |
| 14 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |
| 15 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 16 | It would not be too extreme to ascribe insanity to a headmaster with no pupils ringing a long-silent bell in an empty school . |
| 17 | It may be , however , that the dictum is an overstatement of the true position and that the agency principle does not require that the act of one partner be that of all for all purposes , but merely deems that to be the case for the limited purpose of attaching liability to the firm for the acts and omissions of one of its members . |
| 18 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 19 | The Group recognises the importance of continuing to invest in research and development programmes bringing improvements to the Group both in products supplied to the consumer and in production techniques . |
| 20 | Under the scheme , a building society would lend money to a housing association at a low interest rate to buy homes , whose former owners would become tenants of the association . |
| 21 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 22 | The conference centre is receiving its finishing touches and will be bringing income to the college in 1991 , and the adjoining area has been planted and landscaped with the help of the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden . |
| 23 | Caught unprepared by East Germany 's explosion of discontent , West Germans fear that the regime 's stubbornness could provoke a revolt and bring chaos to the country , threatening the stability of Europe and pose immense problems — including the question of German reunification — which they and their neighbours are not ready to face . |
| 24 | ‘ But they are not producing programmes to the extent that we would like . |
| 25 | Apart from the view that the narrow roads around Oakhanger are inadequate to take a frequent pounding from dustcarts , villagers fear damage to the environment from pollution . |
| 26 | We put a selection of the latest beauty and grooming products to the test |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the fact that he sought re-election to the legislature was widely interpreted as indicative of a desire to use his influence — he was thought to have maintained an overall majority in the new House — to secure the presidency for his friend and colleague , Vice-President Teatao Teannaki , the elected member for Abiang . |
| 28 | Reporters handed their just completed text to the news editor , who edited the stories and telephoned any alterations in the programme to the newscaster : ‘ Scott , kill story four from Moscow — something better 's come in , so we are n't going to run it ’ … |
| 29 | The Land Rover does n't belong to me and I 've got to make sure that those who 've given money to the trust do n't have it wasted . ’ |
| 30 | Any person who offers skills to the organisation should be given careful consideration ? |