Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | By degrees the new mores spread from St Petersburg and Moscow to the provincial cities and in time affected the humblest noble homes . |
| 2 | Audit regulation , changes to the disciplinary arrangements and the continuing development of accounting and auditing standards may go some way to increasing public confidence in the profession ; and various other proposed regulations and changes to the law , such as preventing directors of public companies from exercising any influence over the appointment and removal of auditors , might have more effect than any of the steps which have been taken so far . |
| 3 | This leads to the equivalent forms and |
| 4 | More importantly , Soviet diplomats have by and large restrained from trying to cultivate political ties with groups considered unacceptable to the government in question and , when accused of doing so , have apologised and made every effort to smooth over the situation , in dramatic contrast to the vehement denials and abusive tirades which any such allegation elicited in the 1930s . |
| 5 | You have things like heredity , marriages , divorces , erm some way of life which has to do with Islamic doctrine that you do and some dispute happens , you take it to the Islamic courts and they have religious judges who take it in that context and they go according to the laws of Islam . |
| 6 | It yielded in turn to the peak or vernacular building , with a whole range of housing types carefully adapted to the varied needs and ambitions of their builders Probably for the first time , minor differentiations in social rank had a lasting impact on architectural development in Sussex . |
| 7 | From the sunlit atrium with its glass elevator to the tasteful rooms and thoughtful service , this hotel shines with refined comfort . |
| 8 | To the north and east , banks of scree rose sheerly to the rocky crags and pinnacles surrounding the permanently snow-capped mountain peak , that in other seasons loomed like a sentinel above the village . |
| 9 | The resulting pressures on children in getting to the better universities and the question of whether access is open will be considered later . |
| 10 | German industry was seen to be a major threat to the European powers and to established patterns of Atlantic trade . |
| 11 | Adversely affected in the 1970s by the United Kingdom 's entry to the European Communities and by fluctuating oil prices , New Zealand declined from a position of having the third highest standard of living ( as measured by per capita GDP ) in 1951 to 15th in 1971 and 23rd by 1991 . |
| 12 | He was impressed by the way that this new spirit had filtered through all units , down even to the junior officers and other ranks , both British and Dominion . |
| 13 | This varied between authorities according to the complex needs and resources formulae then in operation . |
| 14 | Users can listen to the spoken messages and direct facsimiles to any machine using the phone keypad . |
| 15 | Goodbye , also , to the multitudinous managers and coaches of the largest team we 've ever sent overseas . |
| 16 | Agreement on the prosecution of the war remained through 1917 and 1918 , and effective opposition to the government passed from the Unionist back benches to the Asquithian Liberals and the House of Lords . |
| 17 | Grieving parents want to know why Grantham Hospital officials failed to react sooner to the mysterious deaths and illnesses on Allitt 's ward . |
| 18 | CSR managing director Ian Burgess said yesterday : ‘ There are significant assets which are surplus to the current operations and these will be divested . ’ |
| 19 | Entry to or use of Car Parks operated by BCP is subject to the current terms and conditions of the Terminus Securities Group . |
| 20 | It meant that the Greeks expected the Jews not to translate their holy books , but to produce an account of themselves according to the current methods and categories of ethnography . |
| 21 | Periods of this order should be allocated to the major problems and decisions , protected from disturbance . |
| 22 | The extra bonus — the thing that makes me truly lucky — is that I can go home to the real friends and neighbours whose tales of burst drain-pipes , complicated recipes and domestic dramas sound every bit as interesting to me when I lack the leisure to enjoy them myself . |
| 23 | The Community Care Act was implemented as part of a major cultural shift is SSDs which has supposedly made services more responsive to the real needs and wishes of service users . |
| 24 | When the new Parish Priest arrives to take up his post he is very quickly introduced to the petty jealousies and gossip mongering of village life . |
| 25 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 26 | Instead of the 959 's computer-controlled variable front-rear power split , the Carrera 4 gets 31 per cent of the torque fed to the front wheels and 69 per cent to the rear . |
| 27 | In contrast to the established systems which simply distribute torque equally between the front and rear wheels , our good engineers have made sure that power on the Carrera 4 is delivered 31% to the front wheels and 69% to the rear . |
| 28 | They represented a common English custom dating back to the Middle Ages and were first mentioned in Stamford in 1486 . |
| 29 | Only where revolution still seemed the only plausible solution for the conditions of the labouring poor , or where — as in France — the tradition of insurrection and the revolutionary social republic was the dominant political tradition of the working people , was ‘ respectability ’ a relatively insignificant factor , or confined to the middle classes and those who wished to be identified with them . |
| 30 | By the late nineteenth century travel was available to the middle classes and , for Forster , travel played a crucial role in the struggle for personal freedom . |