Example sentences of "[art] [adj] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Urban Survival Handbook by John Wiseman ( Harvill , £10.99 ) — John Wiseman 's follow-up to The SAS Survival Handbook is a paranoic 's charter , drawing the attention of the unwary to the dangers of everything from extension ladders to Japanese wisteria and providing useful hints on how to combat them . |
| 2 | A detective-sergeant told Belfast Magistrate 's Court that when Hill was formally charged he replied ‘ no ’ to all four charges , but he said he believed he could connect the accused to the offences . |
| 3 | The detective chief-inspector said he believed he could connect the accused to the charges . |
| 4 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 5 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 6 | During the two-hundred-year period from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth-centuries plague swept Europe , different countries reacting in different ways . |
| 7 | He discards the assumption to which most of us still cling ( if only because the ground seems to melt under our feet if we think otherwise ) that we can clearly distinguish the literal and metaphorical uses of a word , fix the literal by definition , and leave the metaphorical to the poets . |
| 8 | The former related to the quest for spiritual happiness , the latter to the sciences which , in their practical application , helped to constitute a third category of ‘ artificial ’ knowledge . |
| 9 | Much of the attack on the slave trade from as early as the end of the 1780s to the debates of 1806 could equally have been , and was , an attack on slavery . |
| 10 | That the White Revolution was massively acclaimed by referendum in 1973 did not commend it any the more to the clergy . |
| 11 | He sent out the Twelve to the towns and villages of Israel with this charge , ‘ Go and preach , ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven is near ! ’ ’ |
| 12 | The Sandals , Mother Earth , Diana Brown & Barrie K Sharpe are among the entertainers hoping to introduce the Dutch to the joys of corduroy . |
| 13 | Accordingly , the 5 refers to the 50MHz chip , the 1 to the machines ' 1Mb cache and the 2 and 4 to the number of processors . |
| 14 | Traditionally , the connection between the police and the party in power locally has been very close , and the susceptibility of the former to the wishes of the latter has been much greater than in Britain . |
| 15 | The physical properties of objects revealed in the natural sciences may well have an important bearing upon discussions of the technological constraints on manufacture and utility , but these studies do not differentiate , as a prime dichotomy , between the artefact and the natural substance , and indeed are largely concerned to reduce the former to the properties of the latter . |
| 16 | Nobody believes that is going to happen , least of all Jack Charlton , who says taking the Irish to the finals will give him as much satisfaction as he drew from winning the competition with England in 1966 . |
| 17 | Having scraped through against Ballymoney in the first round , the Bannsiders proceeded to shock everyone by doing the same to the Ports and Glens . |
| 18 | ( 6 ) Any lease or underlease , at a rent , or in consideration of a fine , for life or lives or for any term of years determinable with life or lives , or on the marriage of the lessee , or any contract therefor , made before or after the commencement of this Act , or created by virtue of Part V of the Law of Property Act 1922 , shall take effect as a lease , underlease or contract therefor , for a term of ninety years determinable after the death or marriage ( as the case may be ) of the original lessee , or of the survivor of the original lessees , by at least one month 's notice in writing given to determine the same on one of the quarter days applicable to the tenancy , either by the lessor or the persons deriving title under him , to the person entitled to the leasehold interest , or if no such person is in existence by affixing the same to the premises , or by the lessee or other persons in whom the leasehold interest is vested to the lessor or the persons deriving title under him … |
| 19 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 20 | It 's all the same to the shops . |
| 21 | Now if they could just do the same to the beers themselves , and improve the taste , more people might be inclined to drink them . |
| 22 | ‘ Post modernism ’ will be extended to ‘ post-modernization ’ as a way of describing the development beyond ‘ modernization ’ , the characteristic objective of state intervention in the localities and region with which this book is concerned from the 1930s to the mid-1970s . |
| 23 | But the way in which the New Critics developed Eliot 's axiom did not entirely do away with the author : instead , by shifting his position from the outside to the inside of the text , they merely justified a shift in methodology from the biographical to the words-on-the-page approach . |
| 24 | We shall be coming back in this chapter and the next to the problems that occur when choice is based on too much of ‘ I love me ’ and ‘ I love the me in you ’ , but first we need to look at the basic capacity to realize some love for another , with its mix of self-regard and altruism . |
| 25 | I increased the size of the outlet on this filter from a 1.5 to a 2″ pipe , the intention being to continue to use it , but make a connection from this into the 4′ filter I would build . |
| 26 | to my mind they 're no different to the constraints that one would experience in any other planning area . |
| 27 | As a jailbird he knows he is no different to the cons he has to live with night and day — reputations mean nothing here . |
| 28 | This is no different to the Christians that lived back two thousand years ago . |
| 29 | Assuming that Sophronia is an upper servant , the poem draws no closer to the owners than a description of the room where Biron sleeps and where , Timon-like , he keeps his unread books . |
| 30 | Bearwood is so designed that the ladies get no closer to the offices than the door between the transverse and the butler 's corridor . |