Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bad news is that the posting to Estudiantes de la Plata . |
| 2 | Three of the studies in which she has been involved — that described here , a follow-up of normal young black men , and a follow-up of Vietnam veterans — have supported her contention that deviant behaviour of various types in childhood or adolescence forms a syndrome which tends to continue in about half the cases to adulthood . |
| 3 | THE WORLD 'S highest auction price for a work of art , the £30.2m paid for Van Gogh 's Irises , was achieved after the auctioneers , Sotheby 's , had advanced half the money to Alan Bond , the Australian entrepreneur , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 4 | Would Desmond Seymour-Strachey have honoured any agreement his mother had come to with Hilda , would he have considered himself obliged to pay half the royalties to Rose ? |
| 5 | In some HAs only half the referrals to district nursing services comes from GPs . |
| 6 | Is this a return to dualisms ? |
| 7 | Jack Berry 's colt , backed from 6–4 to 13–8 on before finishing third to Touch Silver in the Brocklesby Stakes at Doncaster , then ruined his chance with a slow start when going under by half a length to Key To My Heart at Hamilton Park last time . |
| 8 | Miles , who has already conceded half a point to Ian Rogers , had a lucky escape when he was held to a draw by the New Zealand champion Martin Dreyer . |
| 9 | On 5 May UK bank base rates were cut by half a point to 10% , but further falls in interest rates may have to wait until Germany begins to cut its rates . |
| 10 | The pound had a good day , and gained 1.5 pfennigs to Dm2.4138 and almost half a cent to $1.4491 , encouraged both by the prospect of no further cuts in interest rates and the evidence of a modest UK economic recovery contained in the retail sales figures . |
| 11 | The May sunset was red in clouds , and there was still half an hour to twilight . |
| 12 | And when Phil Newport was run out for seven Worcestershire were well down the road to their 90 all out — extras top score of twenty one — and it was still half an hour to lunch . |
| 13 | It took Paul , Kate , Helen and Michael about half an hour to wolf down the lot . |
| 14 | The clerk listened with half an ear to Ranulf 's chatter about the banquet and the Prince 's open display of affection for Gaveston . |
| 15 | Athelstan , now listening with half an ear to Sir John 's recitation , looked out of the window and wondered what had happened to Benedicta and Lady Maude . |
| 16 | The Department of the Environment has circulated a small leaflet : ‘ How to help prevent it ’ dealing with the winter-time pollution which is such a threat to road usage . |
| 17 | The Universal card is such a threat to banks because , unlike Sears ' six-year-old Discover card , it has been linked to the Visa and MasterCard networks from the outset . |
| 18 | Is this because the construction of racialized identities depends on the existence of the Other , while at the same time it is this ‘ alien presence ’ which is seen to be such a threat to identity that its total annihilation is required ? |
| 19 | Such a call to arms was , in fact , a necessity for a band in their career situation . |
| 20 | The relevance of such a test to works of art , particularly literature , which deals with private , not public behaviour , is hard to see . |
| 21 | It seems that the publication of these reports has by and large not proved such a worry to schools . |
| 22 | They can hardly have come as such a surprise to Daum . |
| 23 | For such a system to work , it is argued that ‘ systems politics ’ is required . |
| 24 | The advantage of such a system to trainees building a career lies in the complete flexibility with which they can gain qualifications . |
| 25 | After such a blow to belief in the government 's honesty and in its all-seeing ability to fix things , the leap to anti-communist opposition was all the easier to make . |
| 26 | He was talking rather too much , he knew , but her appearance in the dress of silver lame — like some kind of armour remembered from childhood play-acting it looked to his inexperienced eyes — was quite startling and such a contrast to Ianthe 's sober blue wool dress . |
| 27 | Her infectious enthusiasm was such a contrast to James 's indifference , Christina wondered what they could have in common . |
| 28 | ‘ Aye , if you want to , lad , ’ Pat said , his calmness such a contrast to John 's excitement that Anne began to laugh . |
| 29 | The news was such a shock to Mark that he dropped his celebratory drink . |
| 30 | So long as there is the prospect that a majority Labour government can be elected to a position of absolute power at Westminster then our unionist wing is content not to question the democratic credentials of such a route to power . |