Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal . |
| 2 | Accept this and the gateway to other worlds will slowly swing wide for you and each day will bring forth new wonders , so that you become once more as a child , absorbed and enchanted by all there is of which to learn . |
| 3 | Then the rejection of a reading where ‘ him ’ is bound to the dog will cause CLE-1 and the reasoner to cycle through all of John , Bill , Fred , and the vet as candidate referents for ‘ he ’ before a change to the ‘ him ’ binding is considered . |
| 4 | Some who are still young enough plan a baby without a husband , but the cost to the mother will be high and the cost to the child , who has no choice in the matter , may be even higher . |
| 5 | However , an improvement in the economic environment is still expected in 1993 and an end to the decline in total construction work available , so bringing about an expected modest growth in our workload towards the end of 1993 . |
| 6 | But the rope was wet and the hook to which it was tied was wet and heavy and her hands had little strength in them . |
| 7 | He would have turned down millions if the woman had been ugly or ill-bred or disagreeable He liked Anna ; he thought she was charming and a credit to himself , and he meant to look after her . |
| 8 | There was a long delay between the pupils ' arrival and the commencement of the displays and chanting , during which Miss Cackle and the teachers greeted friends and acquaintances , and the girls all stood to attention , being neat and well-behaved and a credit to the school . |
| 9 | Work done in 1881 included the addition of a gallery and the church was restored in 1879 and an addition to the churchyard was consecrated in 1901 . |
| 10 | The worst of the teaching offered in theological colleges occurs because the staff are few and the ground to be covered enormous . |
| 11 | Other successful events included a visit to AEA TECHNOLOGY at Risley on 10 April 1991 and a visit to MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT on 6 September . |
| 12 | A study of simple programmes that encourage oscillation between growth and decline can be both instructive and a spur to the imagination . |
| 13 | Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’ |
| 14 | A Guide is friendly and a sister to all Guides . |
| 15 | In a whole variety of ways , the novel shows conventional Western modes of thought and behaviour to be absurd and an obstacle to that goal . |
| 16 | On the Yacht Policies the excess may go as high as $1000 so care should be taken to apply the Policy excess to each and every claim to which it is appropriate — refer to the Excess Guide and the underwriting risk screen on the Polisy system for full details . |
| 17 | Radial under-frames ceased to be manufactured from around 1891 and the conversion to automatic vacuum brake was completed in 1892 . |
| 18 | I only wish that the House had listened to the present Minister of State , the right hon. Member for Plymouth , Sutton ( Mr. Clark ) 10 years ago when , in March 1981 , in a highly prophetic speech against the views of his Tory colleagues , he said that far from being strong and a threat to the world , the Soviet Union was in the process of retreat and disintegration . |
| 19 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 20 | The area around the mill pond has also been landscaped , the whole site now looking magnificent and a credit to its new owners . |
| 21 | By carrying out thorough and painstaking research , we were able to make informed and positive comment on the disaster in Caithness and Sutherland — the threats to wild birds in the Flow Country from large-scale planting of alien conifers in places where the economic justification was questionable and the damage to the environment immense . |
| 22 | The movement revealed her face as it might have been when she was young , comely and a temptation to coachmen . |
| 23 | Next , the xy coordinates of the points making up each line segment were read from the map and recorded manually , together with the identifier of the country to the left and the country to the right in the direction of digitizing ( as illustrated in the 2D encoding and USGS DLG examples of data structures in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 24 | Microsoft Corp has launched its largest reseller promotional campaign yet , a $7m 60-day programme dubbed ‘ upgrade your world , ’ which it says will reach at about 28m customers : the promotion will include an ‘ unprecedented ’ purchase of US national print and broadcast advertising and direct mail , offering a no-cost version upgrade to each customer that spends a minimum of $350 on Microsoft software between April 1 and May 31 , and is coupled with promotional sale prices of $570 against the usual $750 on Microsoft Office for Windows and users of Excel , Word or PowerPoint can receive an additional $50 rebate from Microsoft until July 15 ; MS-DOS 6 will be offered at a promotional price until May 31 and the upgrade to Windows 3.1 will also be on sale from now until April 30 . |
| 25 | I can take you all and the luggage to Applewick . ’ |
| 26 | Given this , we should not expect that the relationship between one cause among many and an effect to be perfect . |
| 27 | There is no legal limit on the number of ministers but there is a limit on the number who can sit and vote in the Commons ( House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 , s.2(1) ) , presently 95 and a limit to the number of ministerial salaries which can be paid ( Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 ) . |
| 28 | Each superbly finished home is unique , exclusive and a tribute to the connoisseur of fine art and fine living . |
| 29 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 30 | But by focusing on a particular selection of empirical evidence , the book seems to shift the blame from the poor and the underclass to women and to their lack of available , acceptable marriage partners . |