Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Augustine 's world had still contained blocks refractory to the light of the gospel . |
| 2 | The church was built in 1876 to the designs of Henry Woodyer ( 1816–96 ) , an accomplished church architect who designed many ecclesiastical buildings , a large number of which are located in Surrey . |
| 3 | ‘ They are unsociable to the quality of life we enjoy within our village . |
| 4 | He deserves most of the credit for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 ; and from 1895 to the end of his life he was president of the University College at Aberystwyth , to which he regularly contributed £1,000 a year . |
| 5 | These mathematical concepts are obviously rather well suited to represent the physical idea of superposition , which involves adding a bit of this to a bit of that . |
| 6 | But what substance makes him produce answers such as this to a question about extending unemployment benefits : ‘ If a frog had wings , he would n't hit his tail on the ground — too hypothetical . ’ |
| 7 | It helps if you can fix this to a clipboard for your survey . |
| 8 | To do something as cruel as this to a member of your own family can not be something a fair and just woman would do . |
| 9 | The surface will initially be scraped by a small bulldozer , and the volunteers will then bring in the foundations , consisting of highway planings , on dumpers , and lay this to a depth of about 8 inches . |
| 10 | ( The seller will generally try to restrict this to a warranty of specifically identified information : the acquirer will want a warranty of all information but not if the consequence is that all information is to be treated as a disclosure ) . |
| 11 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 12 | He revealed this to a group of Irish journalists who were visiting the Zionist Terror State . |
| 13 | Each circuit can feed up to 12 lighting points , but in practice it is wise to restrict this to a maximum of eight , to allow for some to contain more than one bulb . |
| 14 | If you wish to give small amounts regularly , e.g. monthly , you could accumulate the money in a separate account and then convert this to a gift to ACET every time the amount reaches £600 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd wear this to a meeting at Radio One — it 's rare for me to look very smart but to be taken seriously you really do have to dress seriously ’ |
| 16 | Minton bought him a motorbike and he was travelling on this to a match with the All Blacks when he had an accident . |
| 17 | Observation of historical states is affected by the limitations of the database , and we can liken this to a situation in which the object is viewed from a distance . |
| 18 | CW to add this to a list of jobs which DCS to carry out in the near future . |
| 19 | If the students are workers , for instance , not raw material , then it makes sense to ask what products they ought to be producing and for whom ; it is possible to work back from this to a process for delivering those products . |
| 20 | ‘ Say no word of this to the household at present . |
| 21 | He attributes this to the rise of the modern office , mass literacy , the recruitment of growing numbers of clerical workers from manual backgrounds , and the increasing employment of female labour in these jobs . |
| 22 | Sew this to the back of your knitting . |
| 23 | Compare this to the golfer in diagram B. He has not taken such a positive approach to the same tee-shot , and has failed to stand behind the ball-to-target line before addressing the ball . |
| 24 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
| 25 | The relevance of this to the concerns of a chapter on land lies in the way in which location and style are the core of much of the development process . |
| 26 | The government attributes this to the improvements in efficiency achieved during the course of the country 's intensive reactor building programme . |
| 27 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 28 | When police investigations began to point towards the culprits , they addressed a petition to King George VI appealing for the stone 's formal return to Scotland , and fastened this to the door of St Giles 's cathedral in Edinburgh . |
| 29 | Linzey rather lamely consigns this to the problem of evil . |
| 30 | ( We might compare this to the way in which , in Sartre 's later text , the synecdoche of the singular-universal insistently slides into the singularity of the event ) . |