Example sentences of "to [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll come on to that a bit later on . |
| 2 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into 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 ’ . |
| 6 | These listed virtually every possible object that might be traded , from ABCs or spelling-books to yarn , including harp-strings by the gross , opium by the pound , and weasel-skins by the dozen , attaching to each a value from which duty would be calculated . |
| 7 | Turn left onto the path to each the tea hut at Ogwen ( 649 603 ) . |
| 8 | In fact when the cleaning lady has an ‘ audit ’ of his desk and tidies up the heaps , it is a ‘ nightmare ’ , taking him up to half a day to get back on track . |
| 9 | If you are not sure you can cope , take an oven timer , turn it round to half a minute and wait for the bell to ring . |
| 10 | Joël Robuchon 's herb sauce for ribs of beef requires two tablespoons to half a pint of chicken bouillon . |
| 11 | Earlier , supervised by George , she had added a tablespoon of Camp coffee to half a pint of water and poured it into the cut glass whisky decanter on the sideboard . |
| 12 | One unit is equivalent to half a pint of beer or cider , a glass of wine , or one standard pub measure of spirits . |
| 13 | This blueprint challenged the assumptions of Keynesian theory that had provided the basis of economic policy in the United States for close to half a century . |
| 14 | Corrections to maintain the glide path are made with attitude changes of a quarter to half a bar . |
| 15 | It has been observed that some people switching from using a typewriter to a personal computer can gain up to half a stone a year because they no longer have to get up to consult filing cabinets ; and the same effects can be observed when people use remote-control television , extension phones , lifts and dishwashers . |
| 16 | Downriver , two insignificant openings on the north bank admit to half a mile of underground passages : these are subject to flooding and should not be entered by other than experienced cavers . |
| 17 | The triangular shape is also common : starting with a broad base , narrowing steadily as one goes away from it for a quarter to half a mile , until one reaches the outlet in a main road of the normal width . |
| 18 | For smaller cities tight inner ring roads were advocated , Tripp suggesting that in a city of 100,000 population the radius of the inner ring road would probably be a quarter to half a mile , while in a city of a million , the radius would be a mile or more . |
| 19 | ‘ This kidnapper has asked for uncut rough ‘ melees ’ of one-fifth of a carat to half a carat , and of medium quality . |
| 20 | On the kitchen-table stands a large piss-pot , next to half a loaf of bread and the remains of a meal . |
| 21 | The sections could take from two weeks to half a term to complete , so the actual number of tests varied from scheme to scheme . |
| 22 | Another decided that tiv must mean ‘ just a tiny bit ’ and so added a teaspoon of water , compared to half a glass for more , and so on ( Clark , unpublished data ) . |
| 23 | As far as Fri Fri is concerned , running costs are equal to half a penny for every pound of fried product , ’ he says . |
| 24 | It contained , as well as the magnificent borders , twenty-five small miniatures , often up to half a page in height , and eleven full-page miniatures . |
| 25 | You 've only got ta look in the back of the T T G because there 's now four pages of jobs compared to half a page |
| 26 | Each man , John was to learn , would cut out up to half a ton of slate and load it onto a sledge which he would drag out of the open shaft and along a perilous track slotted narrowly into the fellside . |
| 27 | The plan also envisaged land reclamation amounting to 175,000 feddans ( 25,000 by the private sector-one feddan being approximately equivalent to half a hectare ) , an increase in cement output to 15,500,000 tonnes , an increase in sugar production to 1,000,000 tonnes , and the building of 200,000 flats . |
| 28 | Section 222 of the TCGA 1992 , provides that gains accruing on the disposal of , or an interest in , a dwelling house which is or has been an individual 's only or main residence ( together with garden or grounds of up to half a hectare in extent or other extent appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the residence according to the size and character of the dwelling house ) throughout the period of ownership ( but disregarding the last 36 months of that period ( TCGA 1992 , s223 ) are exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 29 | The human race is producing so much information — it is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts to people to half a world away . |
| 30 | It is suggested that either each adjoining tenant should be responsible for carrying out repairs to half the structure or the landlord should be responsible for carrying out all the repairs , subject to reimbursement of the cost of so doing . |