Example sentences of "[vb base] to [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz wanted to get on to the exciting bits , in which Job demanded why light was given to him that was in misery , and life to the bitter in soul : in which Job desired to argue with his God : in which the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind : but she knew it would be cheating to miss out the she-asses and skip to the livelier parts , so she plodded dully on with the dull narrative . |
| 2 | Friction may also occur when staff managers report to a higher authority in the scalar chain of command . |
| 3 | Only gradually did the commercial preoccupation with the projector and the venue shift to a greater interest in the films themselves and then very much the same kind of people who had struggled to control the machines and theatres began to make and distribute the films . |
| 4 | A special class of prose-speakers for whom verse-speakers descend to the lower level are clowns , who may sing lyrics or speak verse for satiric purposes , but who are almost invariably addressed in prose the moment they appear . |
| 5 | The importance that we attach to the further education of adults will be clearly demonstrated through this debate . |
| 6 | Christians believe that the soul goes marching on — they hope to a better world , and atheists in eternal sleep . |
| 7 | In such a case , climb to a higher altitude . |
| 8 | The answer , of course , depends upon the quantity rule that firms employ , in particular how they react to a higher level of demand than they were expecting . |
| 9 | A further formulation might come from those who hold to a wider sense of the mission of higher education . |
| 10 | Qualitative assessments depend to a greater extent than quantitative scoring on the skills of the person administering and interpreting the test . |
| 11 | In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience . |
| 12 | Here you will need to reduce the airbrake to continue the float and then , as you get to the better ground , to re-open them to make the landing . |
| 13 | Though they more usually refer to a later distinction of Hume 's , between ‘ relations of ideas ’ and ‘ matters of fact ’ , recent philosophers have commonly distinguished cases where we proceed , in Locke 's words , by ‘ the contemplation of our own abstract ideas ’ from those where , because there is no ‘ discoverable connection ’ between our ideas , we have to fall back on observation and experiment . |
| 14 | Recordings of different people talking give learners access to a wider range of voices and accents . |
| 15 | Regional managers for northern , central and southern Europe have also been appointed to ensure that managers look across national boundaries for specialised services if they are needed , giving customers access to a broader scope of expertise . |
| 16 | Try using a paler shadow at the inner corner of the lids and blend to a deeper tone on the outside . |
| 17 | If the judge makes a mistake by imposing too severe a sentence , then the accused can , and often does , appeal to a higher court . |
| 18 | Thus by referring to such values as ‘ our country 's values ’ , business men appeal to a higher loyalty than obedience to the law and thereby free themselves from its moral constraint . |
| 19 | So perhaps their disappearance was a brave bid to shake off that old image ( two years is long enough to be forgotten in teen land ) and appeal to a broader church . |
| 20 | Instead , Cecil King , who had pledged the TUC he would keep the paper alive till the end of the decade ( providing its obvious description as King 's cross ) , tried to take it up market and appeal to the younger voters , better off but ‘ socially radical ’ , whose support had just helped elect Harold Wilson into office . |
| 21 | ‘ At length I yielded … in obedience I believe to a higher Power . |
| 22 | Talk to an older Christian about your experiences . |
| 23 | Various other costs such as administration , legal accountancy fees , as well as paying off any debts of the individual band members , could all amount to a further £20,000 . |
| 24 | We are therefore of the opinion that the faster two components seen in the SDS-sequestration technique correspond to a weaker subset of GC sites and possibly other non-GC sites as well . |
| 25 | Those with oily or normal complexions may need to change the kind of face creams used and those whose skins have always been dry will need to take even more care and possibly change to a heavier cream . |
| 26 | I should warn you , the customers tend to the rougher side . |
| 27 | HAVING considered the tort of nuisance , we now turn to a further tort which had its origins in nuisance but which has developed in such a way that it is now quite distinct from it . |
| 28 | Once the poachers have killed off the big male tuskers , they turn to the younger males for ivory . |
| 29 | Thus , let me leave the Command and the Pathfinders and turn to the darker side of morale — the lack of moral fibre . |
| 30 | I turn to the further question concerning an order for possession of 100 , Gurney Road with a view to its sale . |