Example sentences of "was to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she was treated by a vet , it was to no avail . |
| 2 | The campaign was to no avail : the 90% grant was never received and the District 's Annual Report for 1960–61 was the last to mention the issue . |
| 3 | But it was to no avail — she was no nearer the McPhersons than when she 'd started . |
| 4 | It was to no avail . |
| 5 | However it was to no avail : the Orcs swarmed across the river floating on broken timber beams and other debris . |
| 6 | Edward Bawden was one of those within the Academy who fought to have Minton elected , a fight which , as Bawden said , ‘ was to no avail there being a strong prejudice against his painting of the Death of Nelson ’ . |
| 7 | Her pleading was to no avail . |
| 8 | Now we find all that was to no avail , since nine times out of ten local authorities have pushed all thought aside of giving the relief . ’ |
| 9 | Tynedale 's home win against Birkenhead Park was to no avail as they finished second in North Division One , with Rotherham clinching the only promotion spot . |
| 10 | Mandamus , in any case discretionary , he was told , would not issue to no purpose ; and it was to no purpose to suggest that there were any such grounds on which the enactment of parliamentary legislation could be resisted ( Ex p . |
| 11 | It was to no purpose , however , for Franco was no more inclined to negotiate now than at any time in the past year . |
| 12 | It is a potentially exempt transfer even though the original gift was to a settlement . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 14 | Britain 's rescue drew it deeper into the American orbit , though with the introduction of Marshall Aid to promote the economic recovery of Europe by means of financing balance of payments deficits , this was to a degree common to western European countries [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 15 | If the doubled level of wartime was a more significant imposition , it was to a degree offset by greater farming profits . |
| 16 | His final marriage , in 1909 , was to a widow , Mrs Sophia Crofts , of Kensington , daughter of a wine merchant . |
| 17 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 18 | One of today 's letterbombs was to a farmer with convictions for cruelty to animals , the other to a cat breeder . |
| 19 | The move to Bernard Ecclestone 's Brabham was to a team which had a lot going for it — it was owned by the man who was consolidating his hold on FI and had an outstanding engineer in Gordon Murray — and one serious defect . |
| 20 | There were no notices , no signs , nothing that could indicate where he was to a traveller , so that the clean worn wood of the country platform and the solid unadorned brick of the little building seemed very much a part of the wooded slope at the back of it . |
| 21 | Latterly it was to a flat in Eaton Square where the army of friends , constantly replenished , continued to gather . |
| 22 | The only reason I did this was I did n't want anyone to know where I really went which was to a flat in Park Town where I am ashamed to say I watched some sex videos with three other people . |
| 23 | Survival of the controls was to a median of 7.5 months ( range 1 to >16 ) ( Fig 3 ) which corresponds remarkably closely to that in cases ( 7.5 ; 1–23 ) . |
| 24 | Orwell in his notes offers only the ghost of an answer when he remarks that Waugh 's loyalty was to a form of society no longer viable , ‘ of which he must be aware ’ . |
| 25 | The second was to a number in Manchester . |
| 26 | Illness interrupted these plans , however , and when I next ventured out it was to a piece of woodland that was more local to where I live . |
| 27 | Where a reference , or part of one , has taken place , the courts consider a number of factors to establish whether the reference was to an expert or an arbitrator , and those factors have become known as " indicia " , because of the use of that word by Lord Wheatley in Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 . |
| 28 | Further , when the Visigoths did return to Gaul , it was to an area where Athaulf had once established his court . |
| 29 | You 've got to be able to draw your own conclusions , that this was to an extent a personal vendetta . ’ |
| 30 | Its awe-inspiring interior space was to an extent destroyed by the exhibition display demonstrating how the urge to discover and explore had been expressed throughout the ages . |