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

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1 She also plans a sequel to the million-selling Cher Fitness : A New Attitude video next year and is working hard to fulfil one outstanding ambition — directing a Hollywood movie .
2 WITH respect to the 1995 World Cup , there must already be sad voices at Rugby World & Post muttering ‘ I told you so ’ .
3 Whilst the nation is still at war with itself , whilst the security forces stand accused of supporting Inkatha members in attacks on the ANC at Boipatong , now , as Mick Cleary asked in RW&P in January , ‘ can anyone say ( now ) that there will be no violent backdrop to the 1995 World Cup ? ’
4 Can anyone really put their hand on their heart and say that there will be no violent backdrop to the 1995 World Cup ?
5 Over the next few years leading up to the 1995 World Cup there 'll be plenty of time to slot in replacements as they are needed — particularly to the front-five where Jason Leonard will probably be the only one available for the next tournament .
6 Thus it may well be that French Canadian is derived historically by the addition of an adjectival sufffix to the geographical term French Canada , but it is clear that in the mind of most users the adjective is used to take a subset out of the larger class of things or people Canadian , as shown , for instance , by the general refusal in Canada to use the historically natural opposite term English Canadian otherwise than for those descended from inhabitants of Great Britain and in particular England ( see Orkin , 1971 ) .
7 A modest shoal can be inexpensive to buy and makes a delightful addition to the peaceful community aquarium .
8 The House has already passed an amendment to the 1994 Defence Bill calling for talks with the UK on cancelling the project and for halting all civilian as well as military plutonium production .
9 That is when the strength of his emerging side , and England 's case for making it to the 1994 World Cup finals , will be truly tested .
10 It will also examine the response of fans to structural and cultural changes in Scottish soccer , following the Taylor report on safety , and leading up to the 1994 World Cup Finals .
11 With respect to the lexical item bet , analysis reveals the descriptive fact that what we might call the canonical meaning of the word , ‘ to lay a wager ’ , is relatively rarely attested as compared with its very frequent informal occurrence as a modal marker indicating conviction as in expressions like ‘ I bet he 'll turn up tomorrow ’ , ‘ There 's no milk in the fridge , I bet ’ .
12 Jacobs [ 1989 ] adds the deficiencies of circularity of definitions and obsolescence to the above ; and argues that MRDs are only a piece of the solution to the lexical acquisition problem .
13 In this chapter , we have assumed the worst possible case — i.e. the syntax/semantics component needs up to ten words of the utterance in order to prefer one of the alternatives — and this is why the statistics are based on the total number of complete word strings derived from the different kinds of input to the lexical access component .
14 Each word and its anticipated variations in pronunciation are given explicitly in the lexicon , as in the HWIM system , while the acoustic input to the lexical access process may be described in terms of broad- , mid- , or fine-class descriptions .
15 Input to the Lexical Access Process
16 Second to the sporting GT model , the diesel , in either of its two trim levels , is the most desirable of the AX range .
17 This in effect led to a situation where the commercial energy input became about equal to the equivalent energy output of edible grains .
18 We shall be making further representations to the Romanian Bar Association about a more liberal approach to the practice of foreign lawyers in their country . ’
19 Stedman Jones ' ( 1982 ) re-examination of chartism , for example , argues that its political form can not be understood as a simplistic response to the putative material experience of a class , nor can its political language be seen as an expression of that experience .
20 pretty encouraging view of approach to the bottled water market and to the anticipated stance therein .
21 In woodland we stood and listened to the vociferous dawn chorus .
22 Alcoholic beverages with low ethanol content ( beer and wine ) and strong stimulants of gastric acid secretion and gastrin release , the effect of beer being equal to the maximal acid output .
23 ‘ He 's appointed himself to the temporary monitoring team .
24 There has been a steady stream of visitors to the temporary sales office at the development at Pewterspear , Appleton , and this has delighted managers at Redrow Homes ( Northern ) .
25 It is for the housing authority to decide whether they have reason to believe the matters which will give rise to the duty to inquire or to the temporary housing duty .
26 Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband .
27 Along with other newspapers , the New York Times had signalled the change of tack a year earlier , on 10 October 1990 , shortly before President George Bush met President Hafez Assad to discuss Syria 's contribution to the multinational task force confronting Saddam Hussein in the Gulf .
28 Having announced on Jan. 24 that Japan would contribute a further $9,000 million to the multinational war effort , the government unveiled the details of the package on Jan. 31 .
29 For stepping rates where the phase is only excited for a time similar to the winding time constant , however , the wave form [ Fig.5 .2(b) ] is considerably distorted by the nearly exponential rise and decay of the phase current .
30 Even the most ‘ degraded ’ of women in terms of bourgeois ideology , those subjected to the Contagious Diseases Act , were capable of vigorously defending themselves .
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