Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat up , naked and at ease , handing the swiftly discarded T-shirt to her from the floor , watching while she scrambled self-consciously into her clothes with an expression that Robyn did n't dare to read . |
| 2 | The same applies to the so called accident to two Hungarians who were drowned in the Danube . |
| 3 | Failing eyesight which left writer and poet Joan Rimmer blinded for three months , delayed publication of the long awaited sequel to My Formby , Formby Remembered . |
| 4 | The long awaited guide to the Ormes , by Steve Meyers , has appeared , but one marvels at the arrogance of a publisher who can not be bothered to credit in full the first ascent teams . |
| 5 | News from Whitbread that it will make extra provisions of £37m , alongside another £10m considered ‘ normal ’ , to cover bad debts on free-trade loans in the hard-hit south of England knocked 19½p off the already weakened shares to 358½p . |
| 6 | The continuous administration of such compounds at the normally recommended doses to elderly patients , therefore , may result in unnecessarily elevated and potentially harmful plasma levels ’ . |
| 7 | The best established approach to social differences in pronunciation and grammar is the quantitative sociolinguistic survey . |
| 8 | The electrical phase angles at 1,585Hz , the nearest measured point to the frequency used in the main measurements , were -2.83° , -1.76° and -0.15° for A1 , A2 and B1 respectively . |
| 9 | The most fundamental reason was evidently that Hitler was proving incapable of bringing about the fervently desired end to the war , either victoriously or even through a creditable compromise peace . |
| 10 | Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police . |
| 11 | Not for him the carefully charted route to the top . |
| 12 | However , the internationally recognized rights to freedom of expression and to peaceful association fully encompass peaceful actions such as those carried out by Abie Nathan . |
| 13 | Now , as she hurried into the dimly lit tunnel to the ground-floor area where they all parked their cars , she quickened her pace , uneasy as always about the poor lighting and the feeling of being cut off if she should need help . |
| 14 | He walked across the dimly lit room to the sideboard on which a number of candlesticks stood . |
| 15 | ‘ Love ’ ( in all its aspects ) is the theme of most of Hardy 's fiction and poetry , and the well known poems To Lisbie Browne , and The Dark-Eyed Gentleman are excellent contrasting examples . |
| 16 | Initially Mitterrand pressed for a rejection of the Senate 's amendments on the grounds that they amounted to an attempt to elevate the powers of the indirectly elected Senate to those of the directly elected National Assembly . |
| 17 | Very good indeed : The Language of Truth , Art of the Calm , and the horrendously titled Ode to the Time our Memories forgot . |
| 18 | It will allocate them in descending order from the highest priced bid to the lowest . |
| 19 | The borrower passes the newly created deposit to the seller of the goods who is willing to take it in payment . |
| 20 | It was Dr. Joseph Thackeray , the newly appointed physician to the infirmary who took up the burden . |
| 21 | Council member Robin Radley , president of the Surrey/Hampshire branch , backs the call to the newly elected government to : |
| 22 | Much of the savings , in the official view , will arise from the new structure 's needs for fewer managers , but even that is less than convincing for there is great scope for an increase in bureaucracy , from the need to dispatch the business deriving from the newly acquired functions to the formation of twice the number of existing education , roads and social work departments . ’ |
| 23 | So had the cheerful chat and bustle that had formed the barely noticed background to our conversation . |
| 24 | Various scientists have pioneered contact lens research but a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci is widely believed to be the earliest known reference to the principle of a contact lens ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 25 | THE EARLIEST known reference to this tradition is in the Stamford Mercury of October 1825 , at the time of Henry Fryer 's bequests for the foundation of a hospital , and was copied by later writers . |
| 26 | Geoffrey Elton has consistently argued that this revolutionary new strategy was the brainchild of the recently appointed secretary to the privy council , Thomas Cromwell , who should thus be seen as the sole architect of the Henrician Reformation . |
| 27 | There are also small inter-island car ferries including the recently opened routes to Eriskay and Berneray . |
| 28 | But Cleo had only laughed at his insults , and later added the scornfully thrown coins to her collection in the stocking drawer . |
| 29 | The commonly promoted answer to these problems is more research into the decisions and practices of users ( UN Desertification Conference , Nairobi 1977 ) . |
| 30 | From the beautifully groomed hair to the dark intensity of his eyes he spelled wealth , power and hauteur . |