Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quiet , controlled voice filled her with relief and she scrambled out on to the jig to join David . |
| 2 | Even the most brain damaged to the revellers sensed it , and the noise of the place began to die away . |
| 3 | Trying not to show that she was completely at a loss , Sophie made a careful examination , then , taking out her stethoscope , she gestured to the herdsman to hold the calf steady while she listened to her patient 's lungs . |
| 4 | Having secured Theodora 's obedience , however , he left it to the Archdeacon to make his wishes clear . |
| 5 | Thus , an assessor has to bring to the assessment process a matrix of skills , knowledge , and experience in order to translate information into understanding . |
| 6 | For reasons which will appear it is necessary first to refer to the legislation affecting the taxation of benefits in kind before 1975 . |
| 7 | ‘ If the courts undertook to rewrite statutes this would tend to foment litigation , because it would encourage people who objected to the legislation to try their luck with the courts . ’ |
| 8 | Amendment has now been made to the legislation to ensure that the time for raising and answering enquiries is calculated correctly . |
| 9 | Q What will happen to any clergy who decide to leave the Church because of their opposition to the legislation permitting women to be ordained as priests ? |
| 10 | The most interesting thing for me was walking alone and quietly in the forest and listening to the birds singing , watching them make their nest and feed their chicks . |
| 11 | I listened to the birds singing and watched a curl of grey-blue smoke rising into the sky from the station 's brick chimney , and winter and the war seemed unbelievable . |
| 12 | However , lack of cover leads to the birds feeling insecure so they tend not to stray too far from the hen house . |
| 13 | The Wallabies coaching clinic was a great success and a tribute to the efforts made by the likes of Dan Dan Qeqe . |
| 14 | Like my hon. Friend , I pay tribute to the efforts of Lord Carrington and others within the Community who have been endeavouring to obtain a ceasefire , and to the efforts made by Mr. Cyrus Vance . |
| 15 | The heads of state gave their support to the efforts made towards peace , reconciliation and reconstruction in El Salvador , Guatemala and Nicaragua , and supported the rapprochement between Guatemala and Belize in their territorial dispute [ see pp. 38432 ; 39184 ] , together with the decision reached by the International Court of Justice in the territorial dispute between Honduras and El Salvador [ see p. 39090 ] . |
| 16 | That theory , quantum mechanics , will be described next , before we turn to the efforts to combine the two partial theories into a single quantum theory of gravity . |
| 17 | Piven and Cloward ( 1977 ) , for example , in their admirable study of four lower-class protest movements in the US , attribute greater effectiveness to mass protests than to the efforts to build mass-based permanent organizations : ‘ Whatever influence lower-class groups occasionally exert in American politics does not result from organization , but from mass protest and the disruptive consequences of protest ’ ( p. 36 ) . |
| 18 | After the cells had adhered , the histamine and cimetidine concentrations described above were added to the wells giving a final well volume of 200 µl . |
| 19 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |
| 20 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 21 | Still keeping to the ridge descend a little and then curve around west to reach Trum y Ddysgl and go south-west on grass and descend again to reach the summit of Mynydd Tal-y-mignedd . |
| 22 | Posters are far more difficult to monitor : in the past , agencies used to have their own teams of inspectors , but this is no longer done , and the only real check on the presence and condition of posters is a regular service run for the past 10 years by the Poster Advertising Bureau , which reports on the level of damage to posters , as a stimulus to the contractors to take care of their sites . |
| 23 | To the contractors credit this was done . |
| 24 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Georgiadis said much of Mr Makallah 's evidence to the inquest had been lies — particularly details on three important issues : Mr Makallah claimed he could not drive , yet other witnesses claimed to have been driven by him ; he denied telling a camp site proprietor that Miss Ward was definitely not killed by wild animals ; and he covered up how he knew her jeep did not have four-wheel drive . |
| 26 | At the same time , the recipient of your massage will also be more receptive to the energies emanating from you . |
| 27 | These sequences are labelled U , P1 to P5 and obvious homologies to the motif found in the 5' portion of the HSV-1 Vmw175 binding consensus are underlined , the arrow indicating a motif in the opposite orientation on the non-coding strand . |
| 28 | He would have to go very close indeed to the hoarding to read the word ‘ Taunton ’ between ‘ now ! ’ and ‘ Times ’ . |
| 29 | ( See generally as to the privilege attaching to medical reports : Worrall v Rich [ 1955 ] 1 QB 296 , and Causton v Mann Egerton ( Johnsons ) Ltd [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 162 . ) |
| 30 | Other viewpoints may be defined which occupy an intermediate location between these two , and there are also schools of thought which are not readily assimilable to the dimension suggested , for example those which put emphasis on a radical definition of ‘ children 's rights ’ . |