Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to a letter from the Law Society , the Revenue states that it is not possible to set hard and fast rules to determine whether a payment made to an employee who intends to seek further employment will be treated as made in connection with retirement . |
| 2 | As their search became more frantic they found themselves aided by Bismarck , who in February 1869 gave his support to a Prince belonging to the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 3 | Then , to add a chart linked to the table into your document , just choose Add Chart from the Options menu , tell the package where you want it , and away you go . |
| 4 | The inspector from the education department who could be such a trial came to the opening ceremony . |
| 5 | But for many having a racehorse belongs to the world of rolls royces and luxury yachts … |
| 6 | The power lift appears to have worked with a cable attached to the rear of the plough , which was raised as the other end of the cable was wound on to a shaft . |
| 7 | You will be asked whether you want an S or a P trap , which often causes amusement : an S trap fits to a soil pipe in the floor , and a P trap to a soil pipe which goes out through the wall . |
| 8 | The point had been successfully made that such a case belonged to the Church 's jurisdiction , not to the Crown 's . |
| 9 | Tiring of the distant ceremonies and speeches and festivities , so at odds with the gangrenous suffering inside the city — climax to so much other death on Stalinvast — Jaq opened a case keyed to the electronic tattoo on his palm and removed a small package of flayed , cured mutant skin . |
| 10 | I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more . |
| 11 | If you always have , have to be careful , you know you 're a bit used to a temper , you know . |
| 12 | This must be written at a level suited to the expected readership . |
| 13 | Although the Eleventh Directive does not define ‘ branch ’ , it is assumed that a European Court would interpret a branch according to the definition in the Bank Branches Directive , which is much narrower than ‘ a place of business ’ . |
| 14 | Projected changes in the type and nature of work available in the economy render urgent both the investigation of occupational choices made by young people , and the attempt to influence these choices in a direction related to the realities of the changing occupational structure . |
| 15 | A runner went to the prince half an hour since — by now he knows better than you . |
| 16 | First , it should be clear that the idea of higher education being developed here is not opposed to a curriculum oriented to the worlds of action , of work and of the professions . |
| 17 | They defended the entitlement of teachers , by virtue of their education and training if not their professional standing , to shape the learning experience of pupils and to devise a curriculum suited to the characteristics of their own pupils . |
| 18 | In the full orchestra such doubling is frequently a necessity owing to the tremendous swamping-power of the heavy brass . |
| 19 | smaller like a bug on a thread tacked to the sky 's |
| 20 | The Progressive Policy Institute , a think-tank allied to the right wing of the Democratic Party , the Democratic Leadership Council , makes the point that ‘ working-poor Americans are not vastly different from everyone else who works . ’ |
| 21 | We got a geezer come to the door you know yeah , and he took a few particulars you know . |
| 22 | It indicated a willingness to descend to the political arena in circumstances other than those of national crisis . |
| 23 | Women writers are less likely to identify with the existential plight of the lone male , but even so , a willingness to conform to the narrative conventions of realism is evident in the fiction of a number of writers who are now viewed as innovative . |
| 24 | Such judgements were based upon a willingness to comply to the full with the turning of sports into a ‘ media event ’ . |
| 25 | Someone had been thoughtful enough to provide a felt lining to the bottom of the box so that there would be no noise from the falling coins . |
| 26 | As a course to steer to the DF station . |
| 27 | ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take . |
| 28 | Each student registered on a course leading to a formal qualification is automatically eligible for Students ' Union membership . |
| 29 | Each student registered on a course leading to a formal qualification is automatically eligible for Student Union membership . |
| 30 | George Watson , responding to this proposal , asserted that such topics were inappropriate for a course leading to a degree called " English " , and in any case dismissed both marxism and structuralism as outmoded " intellectual dinosaurs " : " No doubt a university is the place to study discredited intellectual systems ; but we risk derision if we propose them to the exclusion of others . " |