Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 2 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 3 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 4 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 5 | Note that the killer was a Euro-convertible , brilliantly conceived by the company 's advisers : it proved as fatal as another financiers ' wheeze , the repurchase of 40% of IBC , which helped greatly to destroy virtually the entire value of that company 's equity . |
| 6 | Detectives praised the help they received from the public , saying the artist 's impression of Katherine 's attacker helped greatly to bring about a conviction . |
| 7 | The RHA thus sought to ‘ encourage all those Districts which have an interest in a particular large hospital to come together to determine how the service can best be developed to meet local demands within the expected financial constraints ’ . |
| 8 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 9 | Press gently to squeeze out a star of icing , stop the pressure , and pull away the nozzle tip so that the icing star forms to a point and breaks off . |
| 10 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 11 | The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes , claiming kinship with those Huns who briefly occupied the Danubian basin in the fifth century and who helped finally to bring down the edifice of Roman power in the West . |
| 12 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 13 | Publishers will need deliberately to set aside a proportion of ‘ play money ’ , which they can afford to lose , but on which they will seek to recuperate the large returns that go with true risk investment . |
| 14 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 15 | Those paralysed by panic , or who tried insanely to drag out the guns , were drowned . |
| 16 | He tried unsuccessfully to sniff back the tears as he watched Yanto race back towards the docks . |
| 17 | In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit . |
| 18 | Berti Vogts is acutely aware of how close that match was in Sweden and he knows his side has not come here to take on the equivalent of a San Marino . ’ |
| 19 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 20 | The walls seem to meet overhead to block out the sky and a chill wind blows as we approach the impasse at the head of the gully . |
| 21 | A pinch of salt is taken for granted in many cake recipes and is added simply to bring out the flavour of the other ingredients . |
| 22 | In New York , meanwhile , the UN Security Council was expected today to pass unanimously a resolution establishing the first war crimes tribunal since 1945-49 . |
| 23 | The RCM tried hard to play down the issue , arguing that all those working for refugees would achieve most if they cooperated . |
| 24 | IBM has yet to say when the new operating system will ship , but users will be able to tie in the PowerPC , providing a single operating system from the desktop through departmental servers to highly-parallel enterprise servers . |
| 25 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 26 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
| 27 | Gallery Director Mary Gardner Neill has yet to determine how the money will be spent , but she told The Art Newspaper that the $10 million will count towards the Yale campaign , a major university-wide capital drive to be announced in early May , seeking $1.5 billion by 1997 . |
| 28 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 29 | ‘ I tried agonizingly to work out the details privately but I was left with no alternative . ’ |
| 30 | The EEC structure was designed therefore to bring about a closer collaboration between the Commission and Council . |