Example sentences of "to [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 2 | In September 1946 , the Secretary of State , James Byrnes , made a speech expressing America 's determination to rebuilt the economy of the American zone in Germany whether the Russians agreed or not . |
| 3 | THE BOARD of Irish Rail has decided to rebuilt the Carriage Shop at Inchicore Works , Dublin , which was completely destroyed by fire last September . |
| 4 | The National Assembly on Oct. 17 adopted by 272 votes to 256 a bill introduced by Bérégovoy , banning corporate contributions to political parties . |
| 5 | At a quarter to eleven the taxi came for me . |
| 6 | Ochirbat visited China in May 1990 [ see p. 37454 ] , and co-operation agreements in the educational and legal fields were signed on Nov. 26 and on July 4 , 1991 ; an agreement was signed on June 24 to increase to eight the border crossings between China and Mongolia from the hitherto sole crossing at Erenhot in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State is therefore increasing from four to eight the number of full-time inquiry reporters in the Scottish Office Unit , the setting up of which has in itself reduced the time involved in arranging inquiries and submitting reports . |
| 8 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |
| 9 | In Wellingborough the number of male boot and shoe makers rose from 613 in 1841 to 814 in 1851 and to 861 in 1861 ; female numbers rose from a mere 37 in 1841 to 473 in 1851 and to 744 a decade later . |
| 10 | It has even refused to injunct a magazine which had published an allegation it could not justify , where it might succeed at trial for other reasons : Soraya Kashoggi sought an injunction to withdraw " Woman 's Own " from circulation when it published a statement that she was having an extra-marital affair with a Head of State . |
| 11 | It tried to injunct the newspaper , on the ground that the papers contained military and diplomatic secrets , the disclosure of which would substantially damage the national interest . |
| 12 | Tenants tried to injunct the president of the RICS from appointing an independent surveyor to act as an expert in a rent review . |
| 13 | From 1950 to 1980 the tendency was for chronological studies to become increasingly sophisticated and more interdisciplinary so that this is a stricture on visualizing earlier work rather than the most recent . |
| 14 | Of a planned 2,266 a total of 1,581 Cuban troops had been withdrawn during January , bringing to 31,138 the number withdrawn since January 1989 . |
| 15 | The buyer will be entitled to damages only and he will still have to pay the purchase price of the computer , although he may be able to set-off a sum representing the damages . |
| 16 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 17 | Usually , if the speed is low , you only have a few seconds either to lower the nose or to reduce the amount of airbrake to avoid a bad landing . |
| 18 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 19 | As for the export to the US of Magnox plutonium prior to 1971 the government has refused to say how much was exchanged . |
| 20 | Prior to 1971 the mixing was carried out under manual control by time-served master bakers controlling a team of operators . |
| 21 | The equivalent uniform for officers was described in the 1985 Regulations as : ‘ … a single-breasted sack coat of dark-blue cloth or serge , with standing collar fastened … ‘ ; coat to close with a flap containing suitable concealed fastenings , the skirt to extend from one-third to two-thirds the distance from the hip-joint to the bend of the knee … a vertical opening at each side of the hip … ; shoulder straps and collar insignia to be worn . |
| 22 | When constructing scatterplots , make the Y -axis one-half to two-thirds the length of the X -axis ; as a guide , think of exercise paper , which is usually of these dimensions , turned on its side . |
| 23 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 24 | Laxton 's population fell from 534 in 1851 to 500 a decade later . |
| 25 | If a charge code is entered which is outside the range 1 to 9999 the prompt will be re-displayed . |
| 26 | We 'll come on to that a bit later on . |
| 27 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 28 | Next to these was a small antique shop , window lights on even at this hour , displaying elegant white china dogs and small pieces of Victorian furniture , and next to that an estate agent . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , a 1978 survey of innovative rural bus services found that only one was making a profit , and most were making losses of between 14 and 48 a week , albeit smaller losses than the 64 to 347 a week losses experienced on some conventional routes ( HC Select Committee , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | Released from the constraints of both shareholders and any market , managers are free to become public servants , ‘ a purely neutral technocracy , balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |