Example sentences of "to [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the corrosion-proof aerodynamically-styled bonnet to the extra wide turf tyres designed to prevent lawn damage . |
| 2 | This arcane dispute contributes to the electorally damaging impression that the Prime Minister is willing to hammer the country on the anvil of her dogmatism . |
| 3 | Certainly the tendency of a number of planning studies to equate the vitality of a village with the number of organizations it contains reveals a decidedly middle-class bias and fails to give sufficient weight to the overwhelmingly informal basis of rural working-class association . |
| 4 | Yet the paper made no reference on this and other occasions to the overwhelmingly foreign content of TVZ programmes , neither did the weekly column of TV criticism in the Sunday Times question the desirability of this situation . |
| 5 | He also manages to end it — master that he was — without resorting to the curiously limp ritardando-diminuendo that Brüggen comes up with . |
| 6 | Black jeans encased his tautly muscled legs , a black sweater outlined the breadth of his shoulders and drew her eyes down to the firmly tapering waist . |
| 7 | Later , when they lay quiet and apart once more , Maria thought about his attitude , adding it to the oddly driven way in which he had just made love to her . |
| 8 | It is not entailed to the eldest son , or anything like that ; but as things stand , on Charles 's death it would go to the particularly repellent son of his younger brother . ’ |
| 9 | The UK had objected strongly to the particularly sharp cuts originally proposed in its own allocations ; in the final agreement , a compromise had been reached in which the UK 's cod catches were reduced from 55,800 tonnes to 46,180 , while haddock quotas fell from 62,500 tonnes to 36,280 ( see p. 36493 for 1989 quotas ) . |
| 10 | All the even-toed ungulates share certain characteristics , which are important in understanding how the mountain goat has managed to adapt to the particularly inhospitable environment in which it lives . |
| 11 | New chairman James McAdam , brought in to replace Ratner and try to halt diving sales , said yesterday : ‘ Adverse publicity after the conference contributed to the particularly poor performance of the 250-shop chain ’ . |
| 12 | In explaining this winter 's figures , team members from throughout Scotland point to the particularly high spread of neve as a central cause . |
| 13 | Between is a hotch-potch of different ‘ voices ’ with degrees of autonomy ranging from direct quotation to the barely noticeable trace of the influence of a specialized discourse evident in a single word or the syntax of a sentence . |
| 14 | Visitors to Max Gate bore witness to Emma 's tiresome behaviour and to the barely disguised tensions in the house , but few perhaps realised the extent of her isolation . |
| 15 | FitzAlan seemed to hesitate for a moment , then turned his mount on to the barely discernible path . |
| 16 | They may act as presidential emissaries to the largely autonomous empires of the bureaucracy and try to instil some loyalty to the programme of the President in their department . |
| 17 | He replaced Ye Xuanping who had been elected to the largely honorific post of Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference in early April [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 18 | It is also intended to illumine current policy options by reference to the largely unreviewed experiences of the recent past . |
| 19 | In addition to retaining his post as Treasurer , Paul Keating was appointed to the largely ceremonial post of Deputy Prime Minister following the retirement of Lionel Bowen . |
| 20 | President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 . |
| 21 | Shameem Alam Khan was appointed to the largely ceremonial post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 22 | It was felt that this approach could best be tried out initially in the 1st year undergraduate programme , where a communicatively-based syllabus would give a much-needed new direction to the largely remedial teaching task that lecturers face . |
| 23 | He was also fearful that the increase of flexibility in the use of supplementary units ( which were by and large non-British ) would give greater weight to the largely British core . |
| 24 | In 1989 it was reported that landowners were under pressure not to renew leases to the largely Indian cane farmers . |
| 25 | And to the desperately wriggling child , ‘ You 'd like a story , would n't you , about Postman Pat ? ’ |
| 26 | Sir Christopher designed most of the buildings himself , but left the design of ‘ The Castle , to the terrifically fashionable architect John Carr of York , who had been taken up by the Yorkshire gentry after his triumph with the design for the grandstand on the racecourse at Knavesmire . |
| 27 | Owen and Roger , the two heads of centre , have developed their respective strategies in response to the broadly similar sets of expectations and demands that confront them . |
| 28 | Under this agreement the Federated States are competent to conduct their own foreign affairs , including the power to join regional arrangements , subject ‘ to the full authority of the United States in security and defence matters relating to the Freely Associated State . ’ |
| 29 | This argument is a necessary corrective to the nowadays fashionable view which ‘ many Labour leaders share with the Conservatives … that the private sector produces and the public sector consumes . ’ |
| 30 | In part this is due not to ignorance of the Act , but rather to the not unreasonable proposition that , since the Act prescribes no penalty for inserting such clauses , in cases of doubt it is better to have the clause present " in terrorem " , even if , in the ultimate event of legal proceedings , it is held invalid . |