Example sentences of "of [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether it 's a case of preaching to the converted , but it 's fun |
| 2 | A lifetime 's habit of apologising to the person who treads on one 's toe is hard to break ; and ( in common with most middle- aged and middle-class women ) I have hardly ever encountered overt hostility from strangers , and never been ‘ chucked out ’ before . |
| 3 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 4 | He made the mistake of attributing to the press the importance that they themselves give to newspapers and journalists . |
| 5 | In 1880 he decided to settle in London permanently , and , also in 1880 , Queen Victoria appointed him teacher of singing to the royal family . |
| 6 | Pillai was sent as assistant commissioner of the Raipur District of the Central Provinces , where he learned ‘ on the job ’ the art of administering to the needs of half a million people . |
| 7 | Indeed , one might be wary of suggesting to a customer that an invoice is overdue for fear that he commit hari-kari immediately ( without paying first ) . |
| 8 | In addition to this purely functional role of planning and buying , a good media person has a more creative role , too , of suggesting to the rest of the account group new ways of using a medium , and of bringing to their attention any special opportunities that may exist . |
| 9 | Quiss felt his eyes start to smart in the fume-laden atmosphere , and as he peered through the grey , yellow and brown clouds of rising steam and smoke , thought of suggesting to the seneschal — if he ever found him — that he somehow persuade the scullions powering these airwheels that they should run rather than walk . |
| 10 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 11 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 12 | We each have our own highly individual ways of reacting to the stresses of life and of maintaining our inner harmony . |
| 13 | Detente and the new cold war in the 1970s and the 1980s can be viewed as different ways of reacting to the end of the golden age , the faltering of the Fordist formula for capitalist expansion , and the emergence of new policies of capitalist accumulation in West Germany and Japan , based on new post-Fordist technologies . |
| 14 | Luke 's face tightened , but instead of reacting to the taunt , he pursued his earlier accusation . |
| 15 | There are two alternative ways of reacting to the stylized facts outlined above . |
| 16 | The notion of giving up one 's rights to a ‘ whole community ’ or of submitting to a decision forthcoming from the community or a portion of it would be a strange and abhorrent idea to them ( Overing , in press ) . |
| 17 | We can generalise from the rights and wrongs of his account of seeing to the use of the other senses as well . |
| 18 | Umpire Ken Palmer had no more chance than any other human being of seeing to the inch whether Gooch had made it to safety in those split-seconds . |
| 19 | This should represent a fair indemnity to the Claimant i.e. either the value of the property at the time of the loss , taking into account depreciation/wear and tear and the original purchase price or the cost of repairing to the immediate pre-accident condition . |
| 20 | Indulging in passive leisure activities such as reading and listening to the radio cost nothing and can seem a luxury after a lifetime of sticking to a working schedule . |
| 21 | Virtually anything is possible here and , for a relaxing change of pace , it is worthwhile hunting out a slow boat instead of sticking to a frenetic dash in the fast lane . |
| 22 | The importance of stopping smoking needs to be very strongly emphasised , as well as the advisability of sticking to a low animal fat diet for the future , of getting the weight down to normal and of taking those measures necessary to reduce blood pressure to an ideal level , i.e. reducing salt and alcohol intake , keeping the weight normal , taking regular exercise and avoiding anger . |
| 23 | Because of the difficulty of finding precise equivalents in English , I shall follow the common practice of sticking to the original Russian terms . |
| 24 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 25 | In Edinburgh , as in Cardiff , is it not a case of pandering to the nationalistic element in the crowd who , albeit a vociferous minority , chose in former years to whistle and boo when the National Anthem of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was the only anthem to be played ? |
| 26 | A committee of clerics and nobles meeting at Scone in 1295 persuaded the so-called King John that enough was enough , and that instead of pandering to the King of England he should seek an alliance with the King of France . |
| 27 | It 's another day , I have slept for more than ten hours and am now famished as I follow the smell of cooking to a spot behind the barn . |
| 28 | They do n't want to charge her so that she can have the opportunity of proving to the court that er she is innocent . |
| 29 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 30 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |