Example sentences of "to [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever local radio you were listening to during the 3rd week of June , it is likely that you would have heard Delahunty 's editorial director , Paul Mace , on the hour , every hour , bringing you those live reports from the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' Championships at Eastbourne .
2 Whatever you 're up to during the snowy season , a wonderful warm woolly makes the perfect winter wear .
3 It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour .
4 We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year .
5 The resulting copy , being at one remove from the original , is referred to as a second generation tape , and it will be slightly lower in quality than the original .
6 It is sometimes referred to as a wide shot , and one of its most important uses is to establish the nature of a location in the minds of the viewers .
7 The whole entity is sometimes referred to as a magmatic arc .
8 ( 2 ) A licence in which such a condition has been inserted is in this Act referred to as a six-day licence .
9 However , a much more convenient and popular type of transmission line , generally referred to as a coaxial cable , essentially consists of a central conducting lead wire insulated from a coaxial outer return conductor .
10 The first option is referred to as a world-wide contract , and the second is known as a territory-by-territory contract .
11 In the light of that report the local authority carried out what has been referred to as a radical re-examination of the position .
12 The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century .
13 The broad feature , which we can loosely refer to as a quasi-periodic oscillation ( QPO ) can not be seen directly in the light curve , because many cycles need to be averaged to overcome Poisson noise .
14 To comprehend all that was involved here , one must experience the full force of tragedy at first hand ; and here Act III of Tristan can be pointed to as a prime specimen of tragic art .
15 But above all their value to user education is that they act as focal points , so that if practitioners have a problem there is an information centre or clearinghouse to take it to as a first resort .
16 In the terminology of Codasyl , the data item is equivalent to an attribute value , and these can be aggregated ( a non-normalised group item ) and referred to as a repeating group data aggregate .
17 Certainly the most successful of the ‘ modern ’ Bries has been Cambozola , a German cheese referred to as a blue Brie .
18 For instance , the MS Panciatichi is referred to as a Florentine source .
19 It has lots of similar properties to a larger computer , in so much that it has a similar , what is referred to as a central processing unit , and in some instances similar peripheral devices , but if one can imagine that for certain applications where these have been collectively gathered together in erm the ultimate setting on a single integrated circuit , then one has a microcomputer , comprised of a microprocessor , some memory and some appropriate interfacing devices to the outside world .
20 A Toleration Bill went through Parliament fairly quickly , being backed by William and Mary , and agreed to as a necessary concession to the Nonconformists .
21 A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect , be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be .
22 The basis of that decision was stated by Lord Greene MR , at p. 370 : " A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be .
23 A term created by a lease must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something that can at the time the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be ( Lace v Chantler [ 1944 ] KB 368 : lease " for the duration of the war " was void for uncertainty ) .
24 The smallness of causes the point S to be referred to as a virtual earth .
25 He was often to be referred to as a modern pharaoh by Egyptians when he was in power ; and in particular the High Dam at Aswan was spoken of as Nasser 's pyramid .
26 By custom they sat in private and not in court , and they were referred to as a domestic tribunal whatever part of their visitorial functions they were performing .
27 She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad .
28 Magna Carta was frequently appealed to as a fundamental law which imposed limits on the sovereignty of the legislature .
29 Durkheim and Weber , two immensely influential figures , spent a great deal of time not merely defining sociology 's subject matter , but arguing for and demonstrating what the consequences of each of their different conceptions might amount to as a disciplined inquiry .
30 Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible .
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