Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constitutional authorities see a transmission of orders from the many to the controlling few in the government whereby votes inserted at one end of the system become popular public policies and laws at the other . |
| 2 | The building is only a few hundred yards from Blackfriars head office and many Sainsbury 's staff have become quite attached to the distinctive former cold store . |
| 3 | To the uninitiated this may seem surprising and unfair , but to those who have been through the mill the situation is very familiar . |
| 4 | I refer to the caption accompanying ‘ Let them live in mud ’ , by Anil Agarwal in your 16 December issue — ‘ Half a world away , in New Mexico , mud bricks are the plaything of the rich ’ ( p 740 ) and the description in the review by Colin Moorcraft in your 13 January issue of the exhibition ‘ Down to earth ’ by Jean Dethier , ‘ encompassing all manner of earth buildings from … to the trendy latter day eco-huts of New Mexico ’ ( p 110 ) . |
| 5 | Well if he had X to the seventh that would have given him seven X to the sixth |
| 6 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 7 | If so , they would correspond to the native serf labourers of Persian Asia Minor , and Bakal and Alazeir would correspond to the far fewer privileged Anatolians who achieved honour and office under the Achaemenid satraps . ) |
| 8 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 9 | By this arrangement we could position Viking almost to the nearest few inches with all the lines taut , a degree of control which was most essential in view of our position and the variations of tide and swell . |
| 10 | Despite the undoubted hardship , not only to the famous such as the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West and other hon. Members , but to those who are known only to their families — I know from correspondence that many ordinary people suffer hardship because of what is said and done in court cases — I suggest to the House that we interfere with this at our peril , and at peril to our liberties and system of open justice . |
| 11 | and in addition to the foregoing such other risks as the Landlord from time to time in its reasonable discretion may think fit to insure against or against which the Tenant may reasonably request the Landlord to insure |
| 12 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 13 | The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen . |
| 14 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 15 | Women in nightdresses peeping out of roadside houses lent a surreptitious air to the first few miles . |
| 16 | Kirov listened attentively to the first few bars . |
| 17 | If we go back to the first few minutes , or maybe even the first few seconds , there must have been an incredibly high density of matter near that point ? |
| 18 | Although on a straightforward vote the smaller associate members of the ICC hold 20 votes compared to the two each held by the nine Test nations , England have not given up hope completely . |
| 19 | Reference has already been made to the two former colleges of education within the Principality . |
| 20 | 8.2 Each Party undertakes to each of the other Parties that it will use its best endeavours to communicate fully and promptly to the other all such background and results as may reasonably be required for carrying out the project or complying with the terms of the Grant Offer Letter or for exploitation of the results in accordance with Clause 11 . |
| 21 | The case trotted on at something slightly better than the conventional pace of litigation in this country and arrived at a point where each side had to ‘ discover ’ to the other all relevant documents relating to the matter . |
| 22 | Discovery obliges each party to disclose to the other all documents relevant to the issues , except those containing legal advice on those issues . |
| 23 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 24 | learnt that ‘ to the pure all things are pure ’ , and that science and |
| 25 | Francois Carrard , director general of the International Olympic Committee , said the IOC had granted provisional recognition to the 12 former republics , who in exchange had agreed in principle to the condition of fielding a joint team . |
| 26 | And so FRED 3 proposes that where facilities are held which permit the borrower , in effect , to extend a loan , the maturity of the loan should be assessed by reference to the longest such refinancing permitted . |
| 27 | The result is that for the first time this season those of us whose attachment to the Welsh All Blacks can not be broken can start to look ahead with optimism . |
| 28 | If one is inclined to the didactic another might be the reverse . |
| 29 | Steve Edgley and Lee James went to the 18th all square with Mark Saunders and David Hares and it looked as if Gloucester 's tee shot was out of bounds — until the ball hit a tree and stayed in play . |
| 30 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |