Example sentences of "[art] run [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 2 | He claimed it would allow Heseltine to avoid mentioning that Britain was lagging behind Europe in curbing carbon emissions in the run up to the general election . |
| 3 | FEW company directors are keeping quiet about their political affiliations in the run up to the General Election . |
| 4 | Now , in the run up to the general election , he is talking more modestly of its showing a ‘ progression in votes . ’ |
| 5 | In the run up to the Great Exhibition of 1851 he produced sample sheets with a watermarked light and shade portrait of Queen Victoria : later these exquisite watermarks became part of his stock-in-trade and were described as a ‘ degree of perfection … the quintessence of the papermaking craft ’ . |
| 6 | This is both in respect of the run up to the seventy fifth birthday and also with the increase in responsibility to take on the remit for the development of our work in relation to the European Community , central and Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | Indeed , in the early stages of the contest much was made of the lightweight nature of the public support Heseltine received ( it was not until the run up to the second ballot , when Mrs Thatcher was out of the race , that he received public support from Lawson and Howe ) . |
| 8 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 9 | In the run up to the Conservative Party conference it is hardly surprising if Mrs Thatcher swallowed her intellectual objections to intervention and backed the Chancellor 's expensive efforts to defend the pound in the hope of avoiding or postponing a further increase in interest rates . |
| 10 | The depression in the art market , and a growing diffidence among gallery owners where fairs are concerned , evident in the run up to the FIAC fair in Paris , looks set to turn the Cologne fair into a predominantly home-grown event . |
| 11 | We intend to use a good number of the shots for promotional and exhibition uses in the run up to the 1993 Year of Railways . |
| 12 | Party Politics , a 16–1 chance , is in ‘ great shape ’ in the run up to the big race according to trainer Nick Gaselee . |
| 13 | During the run up to the 1911 strike Wilson had been advised by his doctors to take three months rest but had been determined to " remain on the bridge and direct the fight " . |