Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An active suspension system is designed to keep the McLaren glued to the track by reading the bumps ahead and a radio link enables engineers to tweak the car 's operating systems during the race . |
| 2 | The NME succumbed to The Smiths success by parading a lengthy Smiths interview by Biba Kopf , a writer not known for his enthusiasm for the Smiths . |
| 3 | Thus last year , the council of ministers of the EEC agreed to a £20 million research programme in materials , parts of which should boost recycling techniques and produce substitutes for the strategically important metals . |
| 4 | ‘ This is him , Fagin , ’ the Dodger said to the old man . |
| 5 | The faction of the SPLA opposed to the leadership of Col. John Garang and led by Lam Akol and Riek Mashar Teny-Durgon [ see p. 38426 ] was now known as the Nasir group , after the eastern Sudanese town in which it was based . |
| 6 | The CMR applies to every contract for the carriage of goods by road in vehicles for reward , when the place of taking over of the goods and the place of delivery , as specified in the contract , are situated in two different countries , of which at least one is a contracting country , irrespective of the place of residence and the nationality of the parties . |
| 7 | The £11 million fetched by the Turner trumps the previous highest price for a work by British artist : in 1990 Constable 's The Lock went to a Swiss collector for £10.78 million . |
| 8 | The lack of an appropriate exchange rate adjustment may well inhibit the ability of members of the CU to adjust to the changes induced by increased competition . |
| 9 | The Popes appealed to the Franks for help and they responded by invading Lombardy to administer a sharp lesson . |
| 10 | There was much argument on semantics here , and the DoE responded to the Environment Committee 's report in part by changing the terms , but not the substance , of the draft circulars . |
| 11 | In the UK it remains for the CAA to revert to a voluntary incident reporting system in place of the current mandatory one . |
| 12 | In the fifteenth century , when Christian Europe was threatened by the Turk , the Bogomils turned to the Crescent rather than the Cross , and many eventually accepted Islam . |
| 13 | The MCC reported to a council of resident representatives . |
| 14 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 15 | In Martin Peters Bauunternehmung G.m.b.H . v. Zuid Nederlandse Aannemers Vereniging ( Case 34/82 ) [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , 991 the Supreme Court of The Netherlands referred to the Court of Justice the following question : |
| 16 | On the other hand , given the importance the Netherlands attached to the Convention , the 1985 amendment was interpreted as not displacing the application of the Convention , and so the requirements of Article 15 had to be complied with . |
| 17 | Changes in the longer term included ( i ) the halving of the number of armed forces to about 31,000 over two years ; ( ii ) electoral reform ; ( iii ) land reform ; ( iv ) the creation of a consultative body , comprising representatives of government , employers and workers , to set policy for economic and social development ; and ( v ) the creation of a mechanism to allow the FMLN to contribute to the national reconstruction plan . |
| 18 | The EPA relates to the fumes going into the atmosphere . |
| 19 | Scotch if you 've got it — or are you waving the emerald flag for the benefit of certain up-and:coming Irish politicians of the lineage of the closest thing we in the States have to a royal family ? ’ |
| 20 | From the airport the Sadats and the Pahlavis drove to the Oberoi Hotel , which is secluded in a man-made island in the Nile . |
| 21 | Its expressed view , that the Uprising was part of that violence which the United States now wished the PLO to bring to an end , indicated it wished to eliminate the source of the new political reality , against which it had laboured so long through its preference for negotiations through Jordan . |
| 22 | Long after nationalization of the pits , the end of the butty system , and the handing-over of the colliery company villages to the NCB , it seems , there was a coalfield culture in Nottinghamshire ( especially the Dukeries ) which differed substantially in its politics — Waller ( 1983 , p. 130 ) refers to ‘ the lack of conventional industrial and political organization in the new mines [ which ] provides one more example of the challenge the coalfield of the Dukeries offers to the established view of mining life and community . |
| 23 | The Mercedes slid to a halt outside a fair-sized , 1930s detached house set back from the road by a small garden which had thoughtfully been concreted over . |
| 24 | The currency reform followed a series of economic sanctions initiated by the interim government depriving the rebels of fuel , alcohol , tobacco and other items , in order to force the NPFL to conform to the demands of the peace plan brokered in Yamoussoukro , Côte D'Ivoire , in October [ see p. 38518 ] . |
| 25 | At times Slavonia in the north and parts of Bosnia in the south were detached , and in the sixteenth century the whole inland area south of the Sava fell to the Turks . |
| 26 | Aye show you people you 'll see in the Loch not last July but the July came to the States . |
| 27 | Tei and Owen provide no breakdown of their data in terms of the angular separation between adapting and test stimuli on their " different " trials so it is net possible to see whether adaptation is effective over a greater range of orientations in the LVF compared to the RVF . |
| 28 | The argument was that if the right hemisphere can store a representation of the auditory set and compare it with the visual probe letter then there should be an advantage in reaction time to letters presented in the LVF compared to the RVF . |
| 29 | Given Piatakov 's views and his official position , the Bolsheviks of the Ukraine seemed to the Rada indistinguishable from both the Kadets and the Petrograd Soviet . |
| 30 | The Feldwebel pointed to the entrance to the station and the mousy man signed to me to pick up the case . |