Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 2 | The defender blocks an attempted punch to the face . |
| 3 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 4 | These suggest unsteadiness and imbalance ; brittle textures and hard yellow-greens evoke the dazzling clear-cut light of reason , but their surfaces are marred by thin wounds and blemishes which , camouflage by the paint 's substance , present an insidious challenge to the perfect symmetry of composition . |
| 5 | Such buildings often have an associated yard to the rear . |
| 6 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |
| 7 | Hence it is hardly probable that a group of remarks about the first four groups could place any restriction on the nature of the two later groups , and thus there is a lot of room for an invalidating counter-example to the principle of closure . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrats under Ashdown are enthusiastically pro-market and anti-trade union ; they are seeking to create an anti-socialist alternative to the Tories rather than an anti-Tory alliance . |
| 9 | The insistence on separate sources had been an ill-judged reaction to the Reformation Scriptura sola ; now , by viewing both Scripture and Tradition as dynamic realities , they can be seen as intimately connected , gifts of the one Spirit , in a way that satisfied not only almost all the Council 's members , but even the Reformed observers ( Schutz and Thurian , 1968 , ch. 2 ) . |
| 10 | Certain interests were able to secure exclusive access and an inside track to the ear of government as well as a permanent relationship to the administrative side of the state machine . |
| 11 | A UNITED Nations cash crisis threatens to reignite violence in Hong Kong 's Vietnamese detention camps and snuff out hopes of an orderly end to a 17-year problem . |
| 12 | Usually it 's earlier ; level 2 sailors retire in an orderly fashion to the bar to watch the fun , level 3 sailors catapult off long boards right , left and centre learning where not to put their weight , while level 4 sailors leap onto short boards for serious carve gybe practice — joining our RYA fun-boards courses if they wish . |
| 13 | So if we hear any screeching noises or bells , which er do n't turn off after a very very short period of time , we are to er make our way in an orderly fashion to the er base of the staircase of the fire escape , following the fire escape er signs . |
| 14 | On returning to England he served as a staff captain in the War Office and then as an assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence , an appointment which was to alter completely the course of his career . |
| 15 | In his spare time he is an Assistant Secretary to the well known Premier League team , Hamilton Accies , for whom he writes the programme . |
| 16 | His positive coaching methods pulled together the warring provincial factions and his gentle but firm weeding-out resulted in Evans — who yesterday took an accidental blow to the head in training but will play today — becoming captain . |
| 17 | His journals reveal a conservative belief in good behaviour , self-discipline , kindness and tolerance , also an acute sensitivity to the delicacy in human relations . |
| 18 | Typically , he will have just encountered a major and overwhelming life event , such as loss of a spouse through death or separation , be in a state of ‘ shock ’ and have resorted to self-poisoning or self-injury as an acute reaction to the event . |
| 19 | Shadow health secretary David Blunkett protested that the ‘ record ’ 50p rise should have been announced in an oral statement to the House , giving members the chance to question it . |
| 20 | I was advised by the Greenbelt Local Plan Programme Officer , on fifth March , that counsel for North Yorkshire County Council , with the apparent concurrence of counsel for Ryedale District Council , had delivered an oral submission to the inspector , that at the hearing of the case which was to have taken place on the eleventh of March , certain evidence contained in my proof of evidence issued on twelfth February should be treated as inadmissible . |
| 21 | This was an understandable reaction to the gruelling nature of the work . |
| 22 | Woosnam only had an eight iron to the green but with a target just 49 feet wide , the difficulty lay in keeping the ball on the green . |
| 23 | THE DEATH of Harry Boot on 8 February at the age of 65 removes a distinguished figure from those who contributed in an outstanding way to the successful application of British science to radar during the Second World War . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , in one respect the Egyptians made an outstanding contribution to the science of time . |
| 25 | WANTED — A part-time or voluntary coach who , over the last year , has made an outstanding contribution to the success achieved by a team or individual performer(s) in your sport or in your area . |
| 26 | The initial onus will be on the employee as applicant to demonstrate an outstanding benefit to the employer ; and as we have seen , this is no easy task . |
| 27 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 28 | The parents do contribute an awful lot to the superego but they do n't seem to contribute everything , and the superego remember , is formed by the ego through an active process of identification internalization and there the ego itself is , is a factor and I think mentioned this . |
| 29 | Grammar Dictation offers an innovative approach to the study of grammar in the language classroom . |
| 30 | An innovative initiative to the ‘ elite-v-mass ’ dilemma has been the MESOL programme referred to earlier : an attempt to put central resources into the development of 70,000 junior and middle managers , especially those just embarking on managerial careers . |