Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 6 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 7 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 8 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 9 | Between that date and 11 February 1987 the plaintiffs succeeded in raising a sum sufficient to meet the liabilities , the maximum amount of which had been quantified in the course of proceedings by Mr. Shamji who had sought unsuccessfully to set aside the appointment of the receivers . |
| 10 | Fleury turned away , sickened , for Chloe had wasted no time in bounding forward to eat away the sepoy 's face . |
| 11 | The rally was attended by over 3,000 deputies to soviets at all levels ( from rural soviets to the USSR Supreme Soviet ) , and these met subsequently to adopt overwhelmingly a declaration calling on the USSR Supreme Soviet to enter into negotiations " on the restoration of Estonian state independence " . |
| 12 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 13 | O'Neill 's minor reforms or , as Utley perceptively describes it , his ‘ government by gesture ’ i served only to politicize further the frustration of the Catholic population , without making it any more committed to the Northern Ireland state . |
| 14 | That dominance began significantly to diminish once the superpowers started to negotiate arms controls . |
| 15 | As it was , after an excellent first 10 miles , Swanson pulled away to win both the race and the overall challenge . |
| 16 | I will not attempt here to develop further the complicated arguments about God as Trinity . |
| 17 | This error is common enough in the literature , but it is disturbing here to find even a hint of support for such thinking . |
| 18 | Sheringham crossed low towards the unmarked Clough but the opening disappeared as quickly as it appeared , Schmeichel diving bravely to whip away the ball . |
| 19 | Space does not permit more than a summary of the aspects the would-be consultant needs to consider jointly to ensure both a good beginning and optimum development for such a group , and readers are therefore referred to the guidelines offered in detail elsewhere ( cf Hanko 1985/7 ) . |
| 20 | Skippers will have either to throw away the haddock or risk prosecution by bringing them ashore . |
| 21 | It will serve only to complicate further an already very difficult situation . |
| 22 | There is a very special reward , however , for those who suffer the rigours of this journey when the cliffs end suddenly to reveal ahead an inviting and welcome crescent of golden sands curving around a lovely bay . |
| 23 | ATTEMPTING to bring order to a recent meeting of the Socialist group at the European parliament , Jean Pierre Cot managed inadvertently to produce quite the opposite effect , according to a story emanating from the mouth of David Martin , the Lothian MEP who glories in the high falutin' title of vice-president of the assembly . |
| 24 | A reader " trained " in reading according to conventional interpretation ( by means , typically , of an English degree in an institution of higher education ) would probably be more disposed towards resolving invisible metaphors than someone reading simply to pass away a boring train journey . |
| 25 | Simmons seemed saved shots from Herbert and Aries and did well to turn away a goalbound shot from Appleton . |
| 26 | There 's enough drive and bite here to satisfy even the most cynical that Carter have n't worn themselves thin just yet . |
| 27 | I had been intending to return there to visit again the marvellous art galleries , in particular to see the Whistlers and the oriental art in the Freer Gallery . |
| 28 | If you write primarily to see then the style becomes an expression of your personality . |
| 29 | They must also record their position in the limb , and this may mean that they have both to measure accurately the concentration of a morphogen , and measure time . |
| 30 | Subsequent experimental work has failed both to clarify fully the exact mechanisms involved in frost weathering and to define precisely the climatic conditions under which the process is likely be most effective . |