Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 2 | She was the strongest of us all , the wisest and the kindest — she gave hope to the sad and courage to the weak . |
| 3 | They were certainly very clear twenty years ago according to the regional and county data analysed by Coates and Rawstron ( 1971 ) . |
| 4 | In 1974 this fund was allocated to the regional and area health authorities , and in 1982 it was once again reallocated to the new district authorities . |
| 5 | The scornful response to the latter and silence about the former soon gives the game away . |
| 6 | Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship . |
| 7 | Bukharin was warning that there should not be such a fundamental revision of policies as would mean a return to the arbitrary and commandist methods of ‘ war communism ’ , This meant that , for Bukharin , industrialisation should proceed within the established framework . |
| 8 | They had checked similar seats that had been subjected to the rough and tumble of Metropolitan Police life , and ones that had supported over 70,000 miles , and they were all right as rain . |
| 9 | And that , I reflected on the final leg , enveloped in air-conditioned heat and six-speaker stereo sound , is why the Discovery is so uniquely suited , not only to the rough and tumble of off-road riding , but also to the equal rigours of life in Knightsbridge and Notting Hill Gate . |
| 10 | But indirectly the growing public awareness of science and its potential shaped the professionals ' world by exposing it to the rough and tumble of political life . |
| 11 | For some children , this clinginess is just a phase , which will disappear when she gets more used to the rough and tumble of the other children . |
| 12 | I was happy in my Office ; it was exacting but I could carry it easily in the House of Lords ; and I had no wish to re-submit myself to the rough and tumble of electioneering and the House of Commons … |
| 13 | Many of them go through the freedom of Grendon , only to be returned to the rough and tumble of ordinary jails to finish their sentences . |
| 14 | Through this process of the return to the mean or average , the superbly intelligent , highly motivated race remains an illusion . |
| 15 | The statistical approach follows on from the Lorenz curve type information but recognizes that , for example , studying the income share of the bottom 10 per cent does not indicate how they are doing in relation to the mean or median of the distribution . |
| 16 | In both content and form there was a parallel shift from the classical and idealized to the every-day and contingent . |
| 17 | But there is also a practical and political problem , since it is difficult to see how such a theory could speak in any way to the practical or material concerns of women . |
| 18 | He was master mason to the prior and chapter of Canterbury by 1496 , but was also active in Cambridge , where he worked at King 's Hall and on Great St Mary 's church . |
| 19 | Between 50 and 80 per cent of broiler chickens ( selected for fast growth and meat ) raised under intensive conditions have leg and bone defects , according to the Agricultural and Food Research Council . |
| 20 | They had climbed all over him in Tatton Park , looked at Granada TV studio sets with him , been with him to the Industrial and Air Museums . |
| 21 | EC agricultural production continued to grow despite the tendency of workers to move from the land to the industrial and service sectors . |
| 22 | COUSIN BOBBY In and around filming The Silence Of The Lambs , Jonathan Demme was also putting together a cinematic portrait of his long-lost cousin , Robert Castle , a Harlem preacher , minister to the oppressed and scourge of City Hall . |
| 23 | Construction : shingle construction — sections of fibre are sewn to the outer and liner and overlaid to eliminate any cold spots . |
| 24 | The nineteenth century had brought mass production in the wake of its industrial revolution , and this reversion to the home-made and hand hewn was a natural reaction . |
| 25 | We have too much hurrying about in these islands ; much for idle pleasure and more from over activity in the pursuit of wealth without regard to the good or happiness of others . |
| 26 | The propaganda effort is very low-key compared to the diplomatic and trading activities discussed in chapter 6 and in general appears to be intended to complement them . |
| 27 | While this perspective was offered as an alternative to the moral and disease models of child abuse , which tend to dominate ‘ lay ’ and ‘ expert ’ thinking on the subject , it is only one of a number of possible sociological approaches . |
| 28 | The smaller of them seemed to stare at her a moment , then turn to the other and nod . |
| 29 | The camera was passed to the other and walking was regained with added vigour . |
| 30 | There was free distribution of milk to the poor and broth to the sick in the villages nearby , and an almshouse was established , modelled on those which Nicholas had seen in Holland . |