Example sentences of "to [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are close to mastering the slow pirouette , you may find this to be easier since the model is always pointing into wind . |
| 2 | It sanctioned the sexualization of women by men , making them ‘ a thing , an instrument devoted to appeasing the sexual passion of the man ’ . |
| 3 | In contrast to filtering the single-copy hybridisation data , false negatives have a higher effect on the correct determination of patterns . |
| 4 | Through these companies , GDA is committed to realising the economic potential of the priority regeneration areas of Castlemilk , Drumchapel , the East-End , Glasgow North ( Springburn ) , Gorbals , Easterhouse and Govan . |
| 5 | Ian Storey is arranging transport of the tender to his works at Morpeth where the tank will be removed and renovation of the chassis can proceed , prior to building a new tank . |
| 6 | But the commissioned research does flag up a number of interesting pointers to building a bigger core support . |
| 7 | Acts of seemingly disinterested friendship , reinforced by regular social contacts , were in fact the only sound approach to building a powerful county interest . |
| 8 | Practical PC brings you three state of the art computer cards that will get you well on the way to building a multi media computer . |
| 9 | Courtaulds ' attitude to the training of employees is embodied in a set of ‘ people principles ’ , which the company sees as essential to building a winning team . |
| 10 | With the collapse of the Leveller movement in 1649 Chidley turned his energies to building a separatist congregation in London , promoting social reform , and enriching himself on the spoils of revolution . |
| 11 | I urge you to join the campaign , to read this leaflet and to take the opportunities it offers you to make your contribution to building a greener world for yourself and your children . |
| 12 | Five hundred quick miles over the Alps in tandem with a thoroughbred rival proved just how far Chrysler has still to go to building an effective contender . |
| 13 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 14 | Taligent Inc , the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp venture devoted to building an object-oriented operating system environment plans to deliver a complete 32-bit object-oriented operating system around the middle of 1995 and will be looking well beyond its masters ' horizons for custom . |
| 15 | Taligent Inc , the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp venture devoted to building an object-oriented operating environment , is aiming to provide chunks of its technology for inclusion in other companies ' systems . |
| 16 | Taligent Inc , the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp venture devoted to building an object-oriented operating system environment plans to deliver a complete 32-bit object-oriented operating system around the middle of 1995 and will be looking well beyond its masters ' horizons for custom . |
| 17 | Matthias ' father , János Hunyadi was voivode of Transylvania and devoted his considerable talents to halting the Turkish advance into Europe . |
| 18 | The amount of insulin released into the bloodstream by the pancreas in response to eating a standard amount of glucose is less in the afternoon and evening than in the morning , and this suggests that there is a rhythm in the sensitivity of the pancreas to raised blood glucose . |
| 19 | Many residents were reduced to eating a crude bread made from grinding down the cores of corn cobs , mixed with buds from tree branches and berries from which tea was brewed . |
| 20 | For example , most people will be quite content with a two-ounce portion of prawns , because they have become accustomed to eating a modest quantity of an expensive food , while with many fish — cod , for instance — six ounces would be a more usual serving . |
| 21 | Therefore when you finish a diet , returning to eating an average amount , the amount you used to eat to maintain a constant weight , will result in you putting on fat . |
| 22 | The letter filled Lucy with indignation , and although she answered it politely she longed to ask whether the writer would agree to allowing a similar number of plants to be dug from her own property . |
| 23 | Up to now , the republics and provinces ( or at least the more prosperous ones ) have shown a strong resistance to allowing the federal government to enter the field of income tax . |
| 24 | The RSFSR , Ukraine and Kazakhstan had objected to allowing the federal government to impose taxes , demanding that the union budget should be financed from taxes collected by individual republics . |
| 25 | The methods and their paraphernalia are all ‘ stageprops ’ , aids to contacting the same force and channelling the mind in that direction . |
| 26 | I had n't come to any grief by not having a comprehensive view of that crocodile pool , ignorance really was bliss that day ; but when it comes to organizing a major event , failure to see the overall picture from the start can blight the whole business . |
| 27 | Haig was made an earl in 1919 and after the war devoted much of his time to organizing the British Legion and to work on behalf of disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 28 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 29 | She admits to touching the Black Prince , so its suitability as a weapon could well have occurred to her then . |
| 30 | When imported cloth became more difficult to obtain from the mid 1980s tailors and seamstresses reverted to using a higher proportion of home-spun cloth woven on handlooms . |