Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was just ten minutes to nine , and Richard walked by on his way up to World 's End to catch a bus to the office .
2 Exposure of the small intestine to cow 's milk antigens causes a lesion to the gut mucosa and increases its permeability , permitting the entry of antigens through the impaired host barrier .
3 He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants .
4 Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs .
5 Jones had won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London .
6 At the age of 98 he contributed a preface to the biography of Col De Lancey Forth , of the Imperial Camel Corps .
7 At this time Henry contributed a poem to the fund-raising campaign for the construction of Salisbury Cathedral , and also wrote for patrons in Cologne .
8 He was a lively and stylish writer , and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living .
9 Conservator Nathan Stolow , who contributed a chapter to the National Gallery 's own guide to art transport , has called for public accounting of the way in which the paintings were prepared and restored for travel and attacked the National Gallery for creating an exhibition advisory committee composed of officials from the tour 's participating institutions .
10 She contributed a paper to the first congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Birmingham ( 1857 ) .
11 Elected FRS on 19 November 1772 , Jackson contributed a paper to the Philosophical Transactions for 1773 , stressing that over forty tons of isinglass had been processed from fish in the Great Lakes resembling those imported expensively from Russia .
12 Greece contributed a frigate to the coalition forces in the Gulf war and participated in the trade embargo against Iraq [ see pp. 37935 ; 37942 ] .
13 A FLURRY of takeover rumours together with promise of a breakthrough in the GATT talks provided a kickstart to a dull market going nowhere fast .
14 Its immediate effect was the flight of Adminius , another son of Cunobelinos , and who had been installed as King of the north-east tip of Kent to control the main port of entry at Richborough and the Wansum Channel which provided a short-cut to the Thames .
15 It is in this inherited conception of the equality of all human beings that the people of the Lake District provided a contrast to the rest of England ; Wordsworth therefore believed that ‘ humble and rustic ’ men were not yet corrupted .
16 UNESCO-sponsored research , particularly associated with the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems , led to the publication of Many Voices , One World ( MacBride Commission , 1980 ) , which set the agenda for the 1980s and provided a spur to the creation of World Communications Year ( 1983 ) , continuing World Conferences on Strategies and Policies for Informatics , and other initiatives .
17 This exercise provided a guide to the logical roles and activities of each group and the relationships between them , which , in conjunction with other background documents , was used as a basis for interviews with representative staff .
18 We provided a note to the committee in January ninety three about this .
19 In turn , the way in which different product lines were structured within divisions provided a key to the complex origins of job losses .
20 The years 1931 , 1951 and 1970 each provide evidence of such a movement ; notably in the early fifties the Bevanites provided a challenge to the Labour leadership .
21 A male Couch 's spadefoot calls to attract a female to the pond .
22 The introduction of the card was a further extension of that aim but it required the establishment of a network of businesses which would accept the cards and provide a service to the cardmember .
23 The letters provide a clue to the answers .
24 Thirdly , these regionally based programmes of initial training also provide a route to the obtaining of a professional qualification for an increasing number of people outside the formal further education sector , such as nurse tutors , education staff in the armed forces and in prisons , and industrial trainers .
25 The names on its files provide a gazetteer to the map of much of this Unknown Land .
26 While he and Holly are exploring the caves and valleys of Ayesha 's African kingdom , Leo loves and is loved by Ustane , whose human warmth and generosity provide a contrast to the exalted claims and petulant jealousies of Ayesha .
27 Also available from the same authors : This atlas is designed to test the postgraduate 's knowledge of commonplace infections and provide a challenge to the more experienced physician who is likely to encounter unusual and exotic infections in travellers .
28 Baroque altars and pulpits of great ornateness provide a foil to the severe grey and white Medieval interior ( 522 ) .
29 And while the teams will not be selected until next month , the results in last weekend 's All England championship finals provide a guide to the likely names who will feature in the minds of those selecting the teams .
30 Although I can now see the inherent sense in glueing a book to a table , then the point was just beyond me .
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