Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one he selected , instantly burst into life and the propeller whizzed round to the utter amazement of all those working in the vicinity . |
| 2 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 3 | One pair of these are the sex chromosomes — " female " chromosomes shaped rather like the letter X. The ovum contributes only one chromosome of each pair to the fertilised cell from which a child will develop . |
| 4 | Very lonely people turn to the tranquillising help of alcohol particularly , according to psychiatrists , men who live alone . |
| 5 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 6 | It looks towards a statutory requirement that representatives of trade unions should be appointed , in that capacity , to the directing boards of companies . |
| 7 | The task of the great turn-off was undertaken by , supervisor of typing services since the company first moved to the four-storey building in March , 1971 . |
| 8 | Spurs striker Gordon Durie returns to the slimline squad after recovering from injury , but there is no place for Manchester United 's Brian McClair . |
| 9 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 10 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 11 | Erriquez was eventually released to the Syrian authorities in West Beirut on Aug. 13 . |
| 12 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 13 | Some reports in early December alleged that Arad was being held in Syria , having been handed over to the Syrian government by Hezbollah , although Hezbollah officially denied any knowledge of Arad . |
| 14 | During his time in Israel Baker received no formal response from Shamir to the Syrian acceptance of the US plan . |
| 15 | Example 2:18 Covenant to yield up tenant 's fixtures at the expiry or sooner determination of the tenancy to yield up the demised property including all tenant 's fixtures in good repair and clean and tidy Example 2:19 Covenant to remove tenant 's fixtures if required if so required by the landlord by written notice given not later than three months before the term date to remove ( or pay for the removal of ) all fixtures affixed to the demised property by the tenant or such of them as may be specified in the notice Example 2:20 Covenant by tenant to inquire about removal of fixtures not later than six months before the expiry of the term to inquire in writing of the landlord which ( if any ) tenant 's fixtures the landlord requires the tenant to remove on the termination of the term |
| 16 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 17 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 18 | In other words , most translators prefer to give priority to the syntactic principles of the target language rather than to the communicative structure of the source text . |
| 19 | Let us apply this account to the syntactic structures of a natural language undergoing the process of evolution which it is only reasonable to suppose has taken place . |
| 20 | These words can be re-grouped according to the syntactic categories of noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 21 | Accordingly , one is constrained in the way which one can refer to the preceding paragraph in the printed document — because one does not know what the preceding paragraph will be . |
| 22 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 23 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 24 | If this is so , then we shall almost certainly get a cookbook , and the standard-setters will be doomed forever to the thankless task of blocking , after the event , all the ingenious but undesirable accounting schemes that the wit of man can devise . |
| 25 | The Tuxedo discs begins with the rather pedestrian Preludio 2 by Raffaele Calace ( ‘ father of modern mandolin playing ’ , according to the informative notes in the Amon Ra release , where more music by Calace , equally dull , is to be found ; Tuxedo , by contrast , seems to have cut back on fees for notewriters ) . |
| 26 | Due to the geographical size of Eastern region all but Steven are ‘ on detachment ’ , working from their homes . |
| 27 | Cases were tried at other localities according to the geographical distribution of serious crime . |
| 28 | Reflecting local interests and expertise , the project will focus on the analysis of point maps , and will emphasise applications to the geographical distribution of disease . |
| 29 | It could be argued that the west lost the golden opportunity to contribute to the peaceful solution of the Balkan crisis because it did not de-recognise Yugoslavia ( and , with it , outlaw the Yugoslav army ) , while recognising all the six former Yugoslav republics before the war started in earnest . |
| 30 | Gorbachev had made an official visit to India in November 1986 , concluding with the signature of a ‘ Delhi Declaration ’ in which both sides pledged themselves to the peaceful resolution of international disputes . |