Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latest outbreak of sectarian fighting , momentarily stilled by a government-mediated ceasefire on July 21 , came as Sunni groups voiced opposition to the government 's apparently conciliatory approach to the Shias ( who accounted for about 20 per cent of the country 's population ) . |
| 2 | In contrast , other metaphors make reference to an animacy which seems to threaten by its very absence . |
| 3 | In the first two years , the post ‘ A ’ level language programmes introduce students to a wide range of social , political and economic registers , with an emphasis on oral as well as written skills . |
| 4 | Konstantinos Mitsotakis Prime Minister Tzannis Tzannetakis Deputy Prime Minister Athanassios Kanellopoulos Deputy Prime Minister Miltiades Evert Minister to the Prime Minister 's Office Antonis Samaras Foreign Minister Yannis Varvitsiotis National Defence |
| 5 | And if this is true , the sooner the mainstream cosmetic houses make changes to the way they sell make-up , the better off we 'll all be . |
| 6 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 7 | However , special arrangements have been made for coaches bringing people to the Tattoo and your cooperation is sought to ensure that your drivers are fully conversant with the information given below . |
| 8 | Henry the bunny keeps disappearing and reappearing in a top hat , paper flowers blossom from a seemingly empty vase and handkerchiefs change colour to the call of Abracadabra . |
| 9 | He spent ten minutes attaching markers to the map , then sat back to look at the result . |
| 10 | The Group recognises the importance of continuing to invest in research and development programmes bringing improvements to the Group both in products supplied to the consumer and in production techniques . |
| 11 | There have been a number of published attempts to provide solutions to the cross-area aggregation , or ‘ areal interpolation ’ problem ( Goodchild and Lam 1980 ; Lam 1983 ) . |
| 12 | It is the function of local authorities to provide services to the public at a reasonable cost ( ie : giving the community charge payer value for money ) and not to prop up ailing businesses due to their own mismanagement . |
| 13 | Earlier Mr Yeltsin had appealed to the 1,000-odd deputies to accept amendments to a hardline resolution and save the power-sharing compromise struck at the last Congress in December . |
| 14 | Their $400m share subscription allowed PW to give a clean audit opinion , although a note to the accounts drew attention to the fact that the bank was now owned by Abu Dhabi . |
| 15 | Their symbolic political struggle is in defence of a cultural order in which there exist strong moral rules to provide solutions to the problems of the appropriate constituents and roles of the family . |
| 16 | He failed in three attempts to secure election to the Trades Union Congress 's parliamentary committee , but he represented the vellum binders at the foundation conference of the labour representation committee in February 1900 , and was elected to its executive . |
| 17 | The arched openings provide access to a lightweight stair which takes visitors to a mezzanine level linking with the ground floor office space . |
| 18 | ‘ As chief executive of a large local authority , I employ solicitors to provide advice to the departments on many matters including child care , planning law , and negotiating with building contractors . |
| 19 | The Jacobite threat , which until the middle of the century seemed to all British statesmen very real , led to intensified efforts of this kind , with attempts to obtain keys to the cyphers used by foreign governments and to gather information from postal centres on the continent such as Danzig , Brussels , Leyden , Antwerp and Hamburg . |
| 20 | Not only did the occupiers introduce gin to the island , which remains one of the locals ' most popular drinks , but in 1813 cricket was recorded as having been first played in Menorca by the surgeon of HMS Scipo — a match which received the patronage of Admiral Lord St Vincent , the Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet . |
| 21 | Probably some of these birds moved east to the sandstone cliffs . |
| 22 | Maurice Melloul 's guidelines for the success of the purchasing agent in Dow corning sum up the professionalism that lies behind the words : ‘ The agent must : exercise close cost control build long term relationships bring negotiations to a ‘ win-win ’ conclusion promote and sell the best image of his company be knowledgeable about the supplier 's market and end-use applications . ’ |
| 23 | Adding this to the second suggestion , it follows that the change of context produced by introducing reinforcers in the conditioning stage will have little effect on subjects given pre-exposure to the context but will limit the degree to which latent inhibition is shown by subjects not given pre-exposure . |
| 24 | Apparently the CS-US association must have been formed relatively normally , even in subjects given pre-exposure to the CS , because appropriate conditions of testing ( i.e. the use of a long retention interval ) were able to reveal the existence of a strong aversion . |
| 25 | Subjects given pre-exposure to the CS in the test context ( group LI same in the figure ) acquired the CR slowly compared with the control group for whom the CS was novel and with a group of subjects ( LI diff ) that had experienced the CS previously in a different context . |
| 26 | Kalat and Rozin ( 1973 ) suggested that subjects given exposure to a novel flavour are capable of learning that the flavour predicts no aversive consequence , that the taste is ‘ safe ’ . |
| 27 | All these considerations make changes to the functions performed by the system , and the alteration of processing features , undesirable . |
| 28 | The Guidelines issued to schools make reference to the SCOTVEC Module ( ‘ The Road User ’ which is targeted at the 16–18 year old age group . |
| 29 | To worship the moon , as queen of heaven , they also sacrificed burnt offerings and made cakes , while the Jews made vows to the moon . |
| 30 | This November should see some of the works in the new galleries , from the ‘ Primitives ’ to Poussin , transferred to a suite of twenty rooms on the second floor of the Richelieu wing , which will be reached by escalators and lifts bringing visitors to the galleries of French paintings directly from the Pyramid . |