Example sentences of "to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frentic merger activity among the nation 's accountants ( or not , as the case may be ) has spread to the wilds of Yorkshire where the tiny firm of Rawlinsons is linking with the equally tiny Milne Booth . |
| 2 | Instead it looked to our medieval buildings , our castles and churches , and to the wilds of Westmorland . |
| 3 | Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’ |
| 4 | Concealed amongst the coats , Frankie listened to the grunts of the animals and the low harsh voices of the men . |
| 5 | True , poverty often dwells in hidden alleys close to the palaces of the rich ; but , in general , a separate territory has been assigned to it , where , removed from the sight of the happier classes , it may struggle along as it can . |
| 6 | ‘ Indeed it could justifiably be compared to the palaces of ancient Babylon . |
| 7 | The EC Commission responded to the ministers by promising to prepare legislative proposals in time for next month 's council of ministers meeting . |
| 8 | George Godwin of The Builder was also present , and they were introduced to the Ministers by three MPs , Hope , Stirling and Tite . |
| 9 | And I would urge the panel to send out their proposed leaflet to the ministers in various areas where the educational standards are not very high that they may look at them and put forward suggestions so that the leaflet that eventually comes out will be understood by the whole of our people and not just by the most educated . |
| 10 | G. M. Henry , in his classic A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon , puts forward this argument to explain why the birds that have developed as separate species and subspecies are found in the southern , mountainous half of the island . |
| 11 | ‘ My readers will easily imagine , ’ he wrote in his Handbook to the Birds of Australia , ‘ with what pleasure I descended the ship 's side and sallied forth in a little ‘ dingy ’ to procure specimens . ’ |
| 12 | Altogether , during the outward voyage and the return passage around Cape Horn , Gould , as he described in his introduction to the Birds of Australia , ‘ was enabled to obtain nearly forty species of petrel , being the finest collection of Procellaridae ever brought together ’ , as well as examining and preserving numerous other species that came by chance to hand . |
| 13 | In an extract from the introduction to the Birds of Australia , Gould describes the fate that befell these two men who lived and died at the mercy of the violent and contrary Australian climate : |
| 14 | Eventually Gould was to take Swainson 's point , and in 1865 published a Handbook to the Birds of Australia in two more manageable royal octavo volumes , with no illustrations and a revised text . |
| 15 | Good books are now easy to find and reasonably priced — look for The RSPB Book of British Birds ( Macmillan ) , the Country Life Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe ( Collins ) , The Shell Guide to the Birds of Britain ( Michael Joseph ) and , above all , The Complete Book of British Birds ( RSPB/AA ) |
| 16 | Good books are now easy to find and reasonably priced — look for The RSPB Book of British Birds ( Macmillan ) , the Country Life Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe ( Collins ) , The Shell Guide to the Birds of Britain ( Michael Joseph ) and , above all , The Complete Book of British Birds ( RSPB/AA ) |
| 17 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 18 | What are you giving that cake to the birds for ? |
| 19 | What are you giving that to the birds for ? |
| 20 | Angrily , Martha flounced into the yard and flushed the chickens out of the bushes and into the pen where they passed the night , fiercely calling ‘ shi-shi ! ’ to the birds with the resentment she felt towards her unreasonable grandmother . |
| 21 | Give shelter to the birds with golden throats |
| 22 | Curiously enough , it is introduced by Palomar , yearning for the knowledge provided by precise denomination : every summer he listens to the birds in the garden and does not know what birds they are . |
| 23 | Night netting can be carried out after dark around well stocked game covers with only minimal disturbance to the birds in places where both shooting and ferreting the rabbits would be far more of an interference . |
| 24 | This is especially valuable to the birds in winter when supplies of ‘ natural ’ food are at a premium . |
| 25 | well I 've given it to the birds in the past when I 've had |
| 26 | It was applied to the birds by the ornithologist William Swainson ( 1789–1855 ) , who wrote extensively and produced a number of well illustrated works . |
| 27 | IF EAST GERMANY finally sets out on the path to reform without further bloodshed and repression , it will be largely thanks to the efforts of the Protestant church . |
| 28 | This was not so in 1946 , but thanks to the blatancy of Soviet hostility , to the efforts of Churchill and Ernest |
| 29 | Knowledge of the effects of urbanization , industrialization and poverty proliferated throughout society , partly due to the efforts of Nonconformists like Rowntree , Cadbury , Mearns and General Booth ; fears developed about the industrial competition from America and Germany ; demands grew within the Liberal party for more state action with regard to education , public health and housing . |
| 30 | A RARE insight into the kindly nature of novelist Thomas Hardy has come to light , thanks to the efforts of a retired Dorset schoolmaster . |