Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 2 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 3 | WHEN Capenhurst employees raised money 16 years ago to send cerebral palsy sufferer Alan Barnes to America for treatment , they little realised the heights to which he would rise . |
| 4 | Eric was going to do a trip around the world when he left Mayall , which eventually became a trip to Greece . |
| 5 | So what has to happen , ideally , is that your detective must learn piece by piece things which will eventually make the answer to the fundamental puzzle clear . |
| 6 | Only when the means of production are communally owned will classes disappear , thereby bringing an end to the exploitation and oppression of some by others . |
| 7 | If these manoeuvres were successful , the whole might of Russia could then be redeployed for an attack on central Germany , thereby bringing the war to an end . |
| 8 | The reason for this is quite simply that these aspects of deixis mostly make no difference to truth conditions . |
| 9 | The opportunities for successfully re-using a structure to which it is necessary to make major modifications in order to suit it to its new task are small , even with ironwork of exceptionally good quality . |
| 10 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 11 | An ‘ ideator ’ is a prolific idea generator who , by definition , does not like to ‘ reduce ideas to practice ’ ( i.e. make a prototype ) , but would rather restrict the ideas to the realm of mental gymnastics . |
| 12 | Someone had earlier likened the whole sorting process to sifting sand for gold , so we hoped we had struck gold in the Afghan desert , but sadly , a scholar at the National Library eventually pronounced the signature to be that of another Churchill ! |
| 13 | The participants talked in abstract and theoretical terms , rarely relating the subject to the listeners ' experience . |
| 14 | Dulles precipitated the crisis by peremptorily withdrawing US financial aid for the Aswan Dam , thereby opening the door to the flow of Eastern Bloc arms and influence into the Middle East — the very situation that he had feared British colonial obduracy would create . |
| 15 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 16 | I put the mink coat on a chair and retraced my journey , locking the door again and eventually returning the key to Mercer who nodded without speech and put it in his pocket . |
| 17 | They overwhelmingly reported the roads to be more difficult to cross than five years previously , the change being ascribed to increased volumes of traffic ( 89 per cent ) and faster traffic ( 28 per cent ) . |
| 18 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 19 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 20 | Every Hellenistic hymn to Apollo came naturally to include an allusion to the god 's triumph over the Celts . |
| 21 | It was Aggie who now rose first from her chair and so bringing the conversation to an end by saying , ‘ Well , ma'am , I thank you for your hospitality , and also for your kindness to the child . |
| 22 | The main consideration with envelopes is that they should be large enough and strong enough to accommodate the material to be contained within them . |
| 23 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 24 | Initially it was planned to have two mid-mounted eight-cylinder 1,000 hp automobile engines driving two scimitar-shaped multi-bladed pusher propellers located aft of the tailplanes , but this arrangement has been dropped in favour of mounting the propellers on pylons above the wing trailing-edges apparently to enable the racer to be float-equipped for an attempt at the six-decades-old world airspeed record for seaplanes . |
| 25 | The head of an agency can not typically ensure that his subordinates behave in a way that is exactly specified ; he can only design a policy to which they respond , and his perception of their response shapes the design . |
| 26 | A story is told of a water bull who valiantly fought an Each-Uisge to the death in order to save the life of a servant girl who tended the needs of fairy cattle . |
| 27 | Each day , while you are bathing , soap the pumice stone and gently rub the area to be treated . |
| 28 | I ask it to do so to enable the Bill to be revived in the form — |
| 29 | The Government should be fighting hard , especially given the importance to the economy generally , and of jobs in particular , to ensure that the bank 's location is established even as the European monetary institute is established . |
| 30 | Leading lights in the EISA bus world have come together to agree an extension to the specification called EISA with Enhanced Master Burst Addendum , which defines enhancements compatible with existing EISA products that enable the input-output performance needed for emerging high-end server applications . |