Example sentences of "[art] [noun] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my neck of the woods a boat to Ireland for a stay with the Dublin cousins was quite often handy . |
| 2 | Peterborough 's PS 2000 absence management system provides instant access to detailed information on all absence , giving the user an opportunity to effectively control and monitor the heavy costs and increase profitability . |
| 3 | An article in the Jewish Chronicle last year , in which Wesker wrote that all he wanted was enough money to give the play a chance to be seen in London led to a benefactor , who wishes to remain anonymous , phoning him up and offering to underwrite the venture to the tune of £13,500 . |
| 4 | The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division granted the applicant a declaration to the effect that the Director was entitled to ask him questions after he had been charged but only after administering a fresh caution and that the fact of such a caution would be reasonable excuse for a refusal to answer within section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 . |
| 5 | Two shots into the snow a metre to the right of his legs , tiny puffs in the snow . |
| 6 | In the dark a stranger to the house could think they were walking into a room . |
| 7 | All these orders are made after an application by summons or notice , giving the defendant an opportunity to be heard . |
| 8 | Sometimes the plates were even in a different format from the text , coming in a great atlas volume and making the work a nuisance to shelf . |
| 9 | Two prizes will be offered at each show , the first a £50 voucher to be used at the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's sale in August and the second a voucher to the value of £25 . |
| 10 | In this respect it is worth asking whether it is a mere coincidence that neo-colonialism produces for the bureaucracy a reversion to pre-bureaucratic ( e.g. medieval ) forms of compensation for service to the state . |
| 11 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 12 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 13 | In broadcasts monitored in London , they have told their listeners that ‘ the centres and actions of Moral Re-Armament must be destroyed , because the absolute standards of honesty , purity , unselfishness and love which they present , taken singly or together , offer to the workers an alternative to the class struggle as a means of transforming society ’ . |
| 14 | The Vendor is not in relation to the Business a party to any agreement , practice or arrangement which contravenes or is subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Resale Prices Act 1976 or the Competition Act 1980 or which contravenes the provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or which would or might either result in a reference to a ‘ consumer trade practice ’ within the meaning of Section 13 of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or to the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee under Part II of that Act or contravene any of the provisions of Articles 85 or 86 of the Treaty of Rome or any other anti-trust or consumer protection legislation . |
| 15 | In the event of the Publisher receiving from other parties payments for exploitation of the Work in any other form or manner then the Publisher shall pay the Author a portion to be based on the Publisher 's net receipts from such other parties . |
| 16 | In view of the disadvantages of the husband having a fixed sum tied up in property at a time of depreciating money values , practitioners might be advised to consider including in the mortgage a provision to the effect that any capital sum received by the wife during the currency of the mortgage ( for example , by way of inheritance or pools win ) should be paid to the husband by way of reduction of the mortgage debt . |
| 17 | He continued : ‘ In the absence of a claim to a defined privilege as to the validity of which your Lordships could make a determination , it would not in my view be right to withhold from the taxpayers a decision to which , in law , they are entitled . ’ |
| 18 | In the absence of a claim to a defined privilege as to the validity of which your Lordships could make a determination , it would not in my view be right to withhold from the taxpayers a decision to which , in law , they are entitled . |
| 19 | He then gave the thief a lift to nearby Worthing . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) Where premises are let under a tenancy which puts on the landlord an obligation to the tenant for the maintenance or repair of the premises , the landlord owes to all persons who might reasonably be expected to be affected by defects in the state of the premises a duty to take such care as is reasonable in all the circumstances to see that they are reasonably safe from personal injury or from damage to their property caused by a relevant defect . |
| 21 | She had from the beginning an immunity to other people 's opinion of her , which is n't a characteristic that is much liked in women . |
| 22 | The shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , was given a polite , if muted , response when he called the sackings an affront to decency and justice but stopped short of endorsing a call for a national strike . |
| 23 | In the foothills of the Himalayas an answer to the destruction of valuable trees by mistletoe has been found — in the form of a second mistletoe species capable of hyperparasitising the destructive parasitic form . |
| 24 | He pulled into his drive as the church clock at St Juliot was striking eight ; a perfect summer evening with the waters of the estuary a mirror to the sky . |
| 25 | Was the carnyx a sacrifice to some unknown gods , 2000 years ago ? |
| 26 | By all means give the , give the kid a chance to , to put his side of the story if you like , but there must be er |
| 27 | The art of making hand-marbled paper with oil paint and water is fascinating to watch , the results a treat to won . |
| 28 | Was the gesture a tribute to an old woman facing with dignity and courage a last tragedy ? |
| 29 | McAggott rose wearily from his desk and smote the sergeant a blow to the skull . |
| 30 | Even within the bounds of their overwhelming devotion to Gothic they showed by the end of the century an openness to new styles which other denominations were not as quick to learn . |