Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Frederick Herzberg ( 1968 ) put forward the two-factor approach to motivation after an extensive study of job attitudes among engineers and accountants .
2 In Germany the total return to capital is shown by areas 9 + 10 , and areas 6 + 7 + 8 are the payments to labour .
3 The total cost to car makers of employing labour is lowest in Britain , at $15.80 an hour .
4 Although this might be reinforced by the suggestion , earlier in this chapter , that vision and the ideals fostered by a head can shape the total approach to school management , it is the contingency model and its capacity to take account of turbulence which seem to fit the description of several management approaches in this final decade of the century .
5 The share of means accorded to this construction work , calculated in percentages of the total allocation to industry , has increased steadily .
6 Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day
7 For example , although Text Processing 5 is named as the module which forms part of the SVQ in Business Administration ( Secretarial ) at Level II , in the case of trainees without previous experience , the normal route to Text Processing 5 would be as follows :
8 Andrew Wingate comments : " Where this comes from I do not know , but it is a very surprising story for a Muslim to tell , considering the normal attitude to idol-worship " ( Wingate 1988 : 28 ) .
9 These regional ministries operate as a normal part of the Whitehall machine except that they are located in Scotland and Wales , and they have the normal right to membership of any Cabinet committees dealing with matters for which they take responsibility in their areas .
10 Tempera is the normal alternative to oil for overpainting gold , but you may be able to use a thin layer of tempera or even saliva rubbed into the surface as a preparation for acrylics .
11 The core of Hindess 's argument concerns the differential orientation to politics according to the definite zones of living conditions within the city .
12 The graves lacking amber beads also had smaller numbers of disc brooches , earrings , bracelets and bags , implying that the differential access to amber also extended to other objects .
13 A survey of 35 countries with interim reporting regulations indicated that of those requiring only semi-annual interim reports , the average maximum period permitted from the interim date to publication of the interim report was 108 days .
14 ‘ Stone one of the junior ticks to death ? ’
15 Laurence Tribe , Professor of Law at Harvard University , said he thought the session would continue to chip away at the broad right to abortion .
16 I wonder if it is because the prevailing attitude to life in the Eighties in Britain seems to be to look after number one , to get on , to make money , and not to bother about anyone else ?
17 The castle commands the estuary of the Gwendraeth Fach on the route of the Norman road to West Wales .
18 Sharp rock in hand he cuts steps , balanced unroped above the hideous bumslide to oblivion .
19 After all , the Church also teaches that most people bring the divine image to completion within the context of marriage .
20 On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available .
21 Academics from France , Spain , Britain , and Germany gave papers about different aspects of the Community : European law versus the constitutions of member states , monetary union , the European approach to world trade policy .
22 Hurd , who was entertaining members of the European Parliament to lunch at the Grand , murmured something to the effect that they would all meet Margaret soon enough , that evening at Jeffrey 's great party : ‘ The three ‘ Bs ’ : Beluga , Bollinger and bullshit . ’
23 Furthermore , by virtue of Article K.9 , ‘ the Council , acting unanimously on the initiative of the Commission or a Member State , may decide to apply Article 100C of the Treaty establishing the European Community to action in areas referred to in Article K.1(1) to ( 6 ) ’ , although it is envisaged that such a decision would require national ratification .
24 It might be that it was the incessant closeness to blood , death and suffering that brought out these sentiments in men who had , on the whole , been raised in an education system that rejected such responses as feminine and unmasculine , and that promoted an abstract conception of justice and a stern morality of obedience to rules .
25 The acute response to nicotine in these chronically treated rats was a significant decrease in gastric secretion .
26 For those nurses relocating from the acute sector to community services , training will be needed to prepare them for new ways of working .
27 He knew about Lamarck 's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics , but dismissed this as a secondary process that could not account for the whole range of adaptations ( he must also have been aware of the strong opposition to Lamarckism from Owen and the conservative forces in science ) .
28 The Communist Party was preparing to take advantage of the strong reaction to Nazism which was sweeping the Left .
29 Racing : Cumani 's Career to take the low road to success
30 Nor , it was argued , could medics pursue a mere blind materialism , for the absorbing devotion to material progress , without the subordination of that pursuit to the highest interests of humanity , had generated a crisis of the utmost gravity for morality .
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