Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 2 | It would not be too extreme to ascribe insanity to a headmaster with no pupils ringing a long-silent bell in an empty school . |
| 3 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 4 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
| 5 | The deposed Kuwaiti government established its base in the Saudi mountain resort of Taif , although the Amir and his ministers spent much of their time travelling the world to bolster opposition to the invasion . |
| 6 | As soon as he knows about it he goes into automatic " crisis mode " , remaining cool and placing top priority on obtaining the key facts and assessing the options to minimize damage to the company and its people while resolving the problem . |
| 7 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom failed to secure re-election to the Commission for a further three-year term , for only the second time in the Commission 's history . |
| 9 | ( ii ) It may not be possible for the occupier to exclude liability to a person who enters under a right conferred by law . |
| 10 | However , a court might be prepared to accept ( for instance ) that it would be unreasonable for a manufacturer to exclude liability to a retailer who could not exclude liability vis-ρa-vis its customers . |
| 11 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 12 | Former mayor Marion Barry , who had recently been convicted of cocaine possession [ see pp. 37647 ; 37769 ] , failed in his attempt to secure election to the city council , winning only 17 per cent of the vote . |
| 13 | At Straiton , however , a combination of the grout injection method and the placing of a heavy-duty geotextile membrane at rockhead level was used to provide support to the road embankment over the limestone and Pentland oil shale workings . |
| 14 | The team , led by Margit Laimer , injected a gene into apricot tree cells which earlier work had shown to provide resistance to the plum pox virus which causes Sharka disease affecting , among others , apricots , peaches and plums . |
| 15 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 16 | I think that many of his readers would be prepared to bear witness to the sense that somewhere in there among the changing shapes is the usual nonpareil . |
| 17 | A SCOTLAND-WIDE effort to provide aid to the starving in the famine-stricken countries of Africa was begun yesterday by the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund , writes Gary Duncan . |
| 18 | The former Mayor of Thornaby and Stockton has been chairman of the planning committee for 16 years and was founder-director of the Northern Development Company , which aims to attract investment to the area . |
| 19 | Since the characters that helped the individual to succeed in the battle were the traditional Protestant virtues of enterprise , initiative and thrift , Spencer could project his philosophy as a new foundation for traditional morality , despite its tendency to encourage indifference to the suffering of those who still needed to be taught a lesson by a wise but harsh Nature . |
| 20 | One of these was Tom Potter , a colliery director from Nottinghamshire , whose evidence seem to contain reference to the seed that grew into Foxton Lift . |
| 21 | ‘ It is unlikely that the store could be operational before around 1990 but it should be available in time to provide flexibility to the timing of the reprocessing plants that will be needed in succession to THORP . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Hunt made a good effort to attract business to the state , but his political reforms floundered . |
| 23 | Plans are now in motion to stage exhibitions featuring paintings from the collection in the Museum and Art Gallery in the city centre , where they are certain to attract attention to the University 's artistic riches and forge a new link between town and gown . |
| 24 | This will cause approval listings not to be produced when users prepare a package for approval using option 1.5.2 — Prepare package For Approval and will enable them to grant approval to a package immediately if they feel able to do so . |
| 25 | The nominated approver must use this routine before being allowed to grant approval to a package but need not prepare the listings to deny approval . |
| 26 | The user has attempted to grant approval to a package before the approval listings have been prepared . |
| 27 | You have tried to grant approval to a package using option 1.5.3 , without having the privilege QUALITY ASSURER . |
| 28 | You have tried to grant approval to a package before the approval listings have been prepared . |
| 29 | If , however , the landlord has absolute discretion to grant consent to the tenant 's exercise of a right , the reimbursement of the landlord 's costs is not part of the consideration for the landlord 's supply under the lease or licence to the tenant . |
| 30 | As a formal procedure , this is today rare and serves mainly to attract publicity to the cause in question . |