Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 2 | One of the few clues to Joan Main 's whereabouts appeared to be a birthday card she 's sent to her mother from Newport . |
| 3 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 4 | As Fidel Castro 's revolution entered its 33rd year this month , shortages of food and consumer goods were the most obvious of the many challenges to Cuba 's Caribbean version of socialism . |
| 5 | A book published in 1935 , A century of municipal progress ( edited by Laski , Jennings and Robson ) as the title implies , had a tone which was optimistic and self-confident — in sharp contrast to the many threats to world peace at that time , indicative of a breakdown of effective law and order elsewhere : the Japanese invasion of Manchuria , the rise of Hitler , the failure of the Disarmament Conference , the progressive decline of the League of Nations , the assault on Abyssinia and the Spanish Civil War . |
| 6 | This it manifestly does , but it is aware that it is not unique in doing so ( whence the many references to Tristam Shandy and Jacques le fataliste , archetypes of the novel that undermines its own stated project of telling a story ) . |
| 7 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 8 | This is a suitable metaphor after the rain pouring from leaden skies which greeted the All Blacks to training yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ We already have the latter thanks to Sister Meek and Dr. Gillian Baird . ’ |
| 10 | The former leads to tests which are congenial to 3 year olds , the latter to the identification of variables whence functional changes in the child 's ‘ theory of mind ’ can be modelled . |
| 11 | Conner Peripherals Inc has reorganised around four market groups — an OEM products group to market disk drives , tape drives , storage management software and storage systems to computer manufacturers , a distribution products group to market the same products to distributors and resellers , a storage systems group , formerly Maynard Electronics , will market bundled hardware and software primarily to corporate end users , and a software products group will market storage management software to personal computer users and network administrators through retail and OEM channels and build on its product development relationships with major operating system companies . |
| 12 | He blamed the European Community being preoccupied with keeping farm gate prices down without applying the same rules to pubs and shops . |
| 13 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 14 | Residents of these homes should have the same rights to choice of general practitioner and to NHS care as any other person . |
| 15 | China had , of course , supplied the same missiles to Iran . |
| 16 | China had , of course , supplied the same missiles to Iran . |
| 17 | By combining information on ships and shipowners found in the Liverpool Plantation Registers with material on the voyages of the same ships to Africa and the Americas gleaned from other trade and shipping records , it is possible to reconstruct in considerable depth a major port 's involvement in the Atlantic trades at this time , and to begin to assess their impact on economic change in its hinterland . |
| 18 | Try to depart from your model trial just sufficiently to prevent counsel using the same speeches and the same questions to witnesses . |
| 19 | If only one could apply the same tests to people , she thought , and of course in a way one did ; but as life went on this kind of choice came to be a luxury — one took what came one 's way . |
| 20 | No one has ever done anything after he got it " , and he described the prize in the same terms to Geoffrey Faber . |
| 21 | Under these a relief , similar to that given to prisoners for debt , was afforded on the same terms to traders owing less than £300 and to all other insolvents . |
| 22 | Abadia emphasized , however , that port calls and repairs by US warships would be conducted on a commercial basis and would be available on the same terms to vessels from other countries . |
| 23 | The ideal schedule is one which can be used by a team of interviewers and yield the same stimuli to informants with their responses being recorded in the same way . |
| 24 | Can we take it Mr that you would therefore apply the same comments to sector six on this criterion , as you did to the freestanding criterion ? |
| 25 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
| 26 | In the case of Peru , initially the departments that contributed the most migrants to Lima were Ancash , Junín , Ica , La Libertad and Arequipa . |
| 27 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 28 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 29 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 30 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |