Example sentences of "in a [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All attempts to engineer a dialogue between the two have so far come to nothing , whether through UN Security Council resolutions in a sequel to the bilateral Camp David peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978 , or through attempts to associate the PLO leadership with either Jordan or Egypt in the direct talks between them and the Israelis from which the latter have always recoiled . |
| 2 | A legend was afterwards believed that William Temple converted Ramsey in a mission to the university in February 1926 . |
| 3 | When it 's done I hope to interest the Church in a mission to the gipsies . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't think I was speculating ’ she said in a rebuke to the Government 's attitude towards the advertised high-return , low-risk investment offered by Barlow Clowes . |
| 5 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 6 | On April 21st , he was sent back to his corps in the Argonne by Knobelsdorf , but before departing he gave vent to his doubts in a memo to the Crown Prince . |
| 7 | ‘ A trio of heroes set out in winter to save the land in a quest to the north . |
| 8 | Until quite recently , most music publishing agreements assigned all rights in a song to the publisher for this full copyright term . |
| 9 | But the usefulness which he sought was not only that of a prominent poet , and in a postscript to The Idea of a Christian Society he had already discussed the need for " constructive thinking " during the war . |
| 10 | Extracts from the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health were sent in a circular to the Committee ; each area was to aim at providing as effective and complete a service as was practicable . |
| 11 | Sixth , the Thatcher Government 's pension reforms will result in a return to a ‘ cradle to grave ’ condition of unremitted low income for the most disadvantaged . |
| 12 | In a return to the Latin origin of the word , ‘ textuality ’ weaves everything together . |
| 13 | For instance , finality is felt in a return to the tonic , accompanied by tonic harmony , while temporary repose or the need for continuity is implied if the melody rests on another note with ( inevitably ) harmony which is not tonic harmony . |
| 14 | In a return to the established tradition , the 1992 annual RIBA Awards Presentation was held at Portland Place and this year coincided with the opening of the RIBA National Awards Exhibition in the RIBA Gallery . |
| 15 | That would result in a return to the period when 29 million days were lost to strikes and when substantial burdens were imposed on British industry . |
| 16 | In a return to the system of price controls which had been abandoned in 1990 , sector-wide increases would be decided by union , business and government representatives . |
| 17 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 18 | According to Tim , this has resulted in a return to an élitist society in which ‘ The population has learnt to live on abstractions and interpretations of the world as presented by a few ’ ( 92 ) . |
| 19 | The monster document , nearly two-and-a-half miles long , was drawn in a waggon to the House of Commons by cadets from the Clapham training home . |
| 20 | A MAJOR step in the development of the game in the ranks of the Services took place at St Helens on Sunday , when , in a curtain-raiser to the first match of the New Zealand tour , an RAF team defeated an Army XIII by 22-14 . |
| 21 | FORMER Redcar and West Hartlepool winger Rob Bryce is in the England under 21 team to face the French Armed Forces in a curtain-raiser to the Pilkington Cup final at Twickenham on May 2 . |
| 22 | We start with a famous passage of the French religious thinker Blaise Pascal 's Thoughts , in which the seventeenth-century writer compared belief in a God to a bet or wager . |
| 23 | In a foreword to the 1979 Conservative election manifesto , Mrs Thatcher suggested that the election might be the last chance voters had to reverse the extension of state power at the expense of the individual . |
| 24 | However , in a foreword to the report , Lady Howe , the campaign 's chairman , stresses that the initiative is a long-term one and that it is only beginning to get underway . |
| 25 | However , in a concession to a veto threat delivered by US President George Bush , Congress allowed Bush the authority to restore the aid programme if he could certify " that the government of Jordan has taken steps to advance the peace process in the Middle East , or that furnishing assistance to Jordan would be beneficial to the peace process in the Middle East " . |
| 26 | In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " . |
| 27 | In a preface to the manual , the CEC 's director general for energy , said , ‘ It addresses innovations of great interest and importance to the international oil industry . |
| 28 | Join them in a toast to a successful round with a crystal pint tankard , etched with a golfer on one side . |
| 29 | Writing on ‘ Full Employment and the Responsibility of Christians ’ ( 1945 ) in a response to a correspondent signed ‘ Civis ’ , Eliot signed himself ‘ Metoikos ’ — resident alien . |
| 30 | The knife clattered to the floor , and he threw in a right-hook to the jaw that sent the man reeling back against the counter , gasping , ‘ Pick it up , Mike — quick ! ’ |