Example sentences of "to [noun] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such relationships belong to problem novels , rather than to novels of action , to fiction where a place is not the scene in which action develops but a certain spot where characters place themselves in order to talk . |
| 2 | Housebuilding profits rose from £1.6m to £3m although the company warned that the division 's returns would fall this year . |
| 3 | Sweeping into Battersea Park , the anti-lock brakes show to advantage as the car pulls up in a flurry of leaves . |
| 4 | Gifford left most of his money , and the income from his pictures , to Marcella while the house went to Alan . ’ |
| 5 | But it was by no means to be confined to labourers since the emphasis on being adaptable was an implicit recognition of the importance of the mental factor inherent in all forms of labour , and one which was deemed to be of increasing relevance under ‘ modern conditions ’ . |
| 6 | Some party members are already disssatisfied with Mr Mieczyslaw Rakowski , who became leader only in August , for the way he went immediately to Moscow when the party was in trouble rather than work out a Polish solution . |
| 7 | It then reports back to Parliament when the House votes on the report with or without a debate . |
| 8 | In June 1992 , Dubcek was re-elected to parliament as the country headed towards splitting into its two constituent parts . |
| 9 | Puzzled , his eyes strayed along the line of saints , taking in each from head to foot until the sun shining through the last one dazzled him and his face wrinkled up . |
| 10 | However , carelessness did not amount to negligence unless the carelessness was a breach of a legal duty to take care . |
| 11 | There is only 2.6mV across R13 ( ) which gives 0.104V at pin-14 which should be 10V varying to 0V as the pot is rotated . |
| 12 | They would have torn Corbett to shreds if the grille had been raised . |
| 13 | A plaintiff can sue within three years of the date of publication of the libel , and actions normally take two years to come to trial after the writ has been issued . |
| 14 | The average borrower with a £30,000 25 year loan will see monthly repayments rise from £278 a month to £298 if the mortgage rate goes to 14.75 per cent as expected . |
| 15 | We are all in agreement that we will return to Lourdes when the opportunity presents itself , and are very grateful to the parishioners of St Bernadette 's Parish , who donated money to pay for us to go . |
| 16 | 1553 ) accordingly wrote that ‘ they go to Paradise as the way is to Faye' ( from Gargantua and Pantagruel ) . |
| 17 | To change the picture ; presuppositions are not a booster rocket to get faith off the ground — to be jettisoned as soon as faith is in orbit — but are as vital to faith as an engine to an aeroplane . |
| 18 | It was clear to The Times that bankruptcy was far less of a protection to creditors than a licence to dishonest traders to speculate with other persons ' property . |
| 19 | But normally the information on the recording forms is checked and corrected first and then entered on to computer after the excavation has been completed . |
| 20 | Resiting the aquarium to a warm living room will cut this cost by anything up to 50% because the heater will only operate briefly and it is that which is the main user of power . |
| 21 | But excitement turned to horror when the trail led to a woman 's remains in a shallow grave . |
| 22 | Caroline Lindegaard , 24 , was standing next to Sarah when the car ploughed into them . |
| 23 | That is why he moved to Devonshire when the school closed . |
| 24 | One is starting from an ordered behaviour , with period 3 , and observing a transition to chaos as the voltage is decreased . |
| 25 | The assertion that that is all the information given to shareholders when a company comes to market , or is subject to a takeover bid , will not wash . |
| 26 | The Board will write to shareholders when the offer document from Anglo-Welsh has been despatched . |
| 27 | She waited an the landing with Madge , reluctant to part before the matter was resolved . |
| 28 | That chapter notes briefly that he and Jacob agreed to part because the land would not support all their flocks and herds and allow them to live together . |
| 29 | Tuttle , by maintaining that the Laetoli prints are closer to Homo than the Hadar foot bones , and that different species were involved , is falling very much into the Leakey camp which believes that the earliest ’ true man ’ is more likely to be found in Tanzania than in Ethiopia , and that A afarensis is no more than a sub-branch of evolution . |
| 30 | However , in Coca-Cola Co. of Canada Ltd. v Pepsi-Cola Co. of Canada Ltd. ( 1942 ) , it was held that PEPSI-COLA was not too close to COCA-COLA because the suffix COLA was a word that had become common and descriptive of a type of beverage ; that is , a generic word . |