Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 2 | Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years . |
| 3 | And the club is also firmly committed to the next generation . |
| 4 | So his foot went down two steps , and sure enough down came the wardrobe onto his toe and did n't do any damage and then just bounced to the next step down . |
| 5 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |
| 6 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 7 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |
| 8 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 9 | Neath , who have failed to match last season 's title-winning form , mainly because the younger players have required time to adjust to the First Division , scored three tries during an eight-minute period in the second half . |
| 10 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 11 | Last term , he took the Quakers into Division Three by storming to the fourth division championship . |
| 12 | As I expected , the hon. Gentleman responded to the last intervention by saying that a Labour Government would simply reintroduce rates . |
| 13 | All of these initiatives as well as the day to day work that goes on with safety representatives at the workplace , supported by officials all of these initiatives are aimed at improving standards at the workplace and we are also contributing to the fourth action programme in Europe where they are setting out their action programme which will take them into the next |
| 14 | Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary . |
| 15 | This estimate of classical unemployment , when added to the first estimate of natural unemployment , will determine the magnitude of the Keynesian component of observed unemployment . |
| 16 | The genitive suffix is always added to the last element of a word group : the Prince of Wales 's birthday ; a day or two 's rest . |
| 17 | It should be added to the last rinse in both machine and hand washes , and is suitable for all kinds of fabric . |
| 18 | The project is also incorporating existing machine-readable data files , relating to the nineteenth century , into its relational database . |
| 19 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |
| 20 | In my view , when the truth of representations is being considered , no objection can be taken to the request relating to the first audit , nor to the second audit since the latter may well reveal material relevant to the conduct of the company 's business before acquisition and after acquisition in a way which reflects on the earlier conduct of the business . |
| 21 | In addition to its involvement of the country 's most famous political family , the case also acquired constitutional implications — relating to the First Amendment 's guarantee of freedom of speech — when charges were also filed against The Globe newspaper , a national supermarket tabloid , for having violated a 1911 Florida law by publishing the name of the woman . |
| 22 | Lambeth Palace Library MS 51 , Peter 's personal manuscript of his Liber Revelationum , is an immense collection of visions relating to the next life , compiled between 1200 and 1206 . |
| 23 | A list structure joins a sequence of data elements by including along with each data element a pointer , which is itself a field , relating to the next data element in the list . |
| 24 | 5.5 Decoration [ As often as may in the [ reasonable ] opinion of the Surveyor be necessary in order to maintain a high standard of decorative finish and attractiveness and to preserve the Premises or In each of the Decorating Years ] and in the last year of the Term to redecorate the Premises in a good and workmanlike manner and with appropriate materials of good quality [ to the [ reasonable ] satisfaction of the Surveyor ] the tints and colours and patterns of such decoration to be approved by the Landlord [ provided that the covenants relating to the last year of the Term shall not apply where the Tenant shall have redecorated the Premises less than [ 18 ] months prior to the expiry of the Term ] Most tenants would not wish to be under an obligation to redecorate the interior or exterior of the premises more frequently than every five years , although this is a matter for negotiation . |
| 25 | Note also an error in the text relating to the last set of transactions which should relate to l months 8 to 12 , not 6 to 12 as shown in the text . |
| 26 | DECADENCE has come to the Third Rome . |
| 27 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 28 | Things do , of course , indeed they seem to succumb to The Second Law of Thermodynamics at a rate that must occasionally surprise even the most paranoid of entropy theorists . |
| 29 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 30 | In Joanna Russ 's The Female Man , Janet , returning to the twentieth century from an all-female future , visits the Pentagon , and asks , ’ where the dickens are all the women ? ’ ( 1985 : 8 ) . |