Example sentences of "and to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to see a very eminent specialist , and to no avail . |
| 2 | I tried : and to no avail . |
| 3 | The fact remains , however , that there was a certain defensive quality in many Nonconformist discussions on their new buildings ; the Editor of the Baptist Times insisted in 1902 that ‘ today , under changed conditions , we are false to no principle and to no tradition in making our Sanctuaries beautiful as well as useful ’ . |
| 4 | Saturday was another day for outings , as they had arranged for us to go to an Art Exhibition in the afternoon , and to a singing and dancing programme by ‘ Minority Nationalities ’ ( Ughars , Kazaks , Mongolians , Tibetans , etc. ) in the evening . |
| 5 | Each of the three cases will be examined for 90 per cent packed files , randomized to individual record positions and to a bucket that can hold ten records . |
| 6 | When coal is burnt any sulphur is oxidised to sulphur dioxide which is a poison both in the atmosphere and to a feedstock . |
| 7 | Talk about appropriateness in the use of spoken language , according to purpose , topic and audience , eg differences between language appropriate to a job interview and to a discussion with their peers . |
| 8 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
| 9 | So , for instance , if you wanted access to a management information system on your Unix computer , to an accounts system running on a mainframe , and to a spreadsheet running locally on the PC , it would be possible to reach all of them via the same windowing front-end . |
| 10 | When he woke it was suddenly , and to a sight of beauty he had never dreamed he might see . |
| 11 | With a shout and to a chorus of ‘ Go for it , Kevin ! ’ he ran towards the edge and leapt into the air . |
| 12 | The process of mourning , so clearly mapped out in bereavement studies , applies also to getting married , starting a family , letting children go , retiring , and to a myriad other changes which affect marriage . |
| 13 | The holder may supply liquor to persons taking table meals on the premises , to residents or private friends of residents being bona fide entertained by them , to the private friends for their own or the resident 's consumption , and to a resident for his own or a private friend 's consumption with a meal supplied at the premises but to be consumed off them . |
| 14 | Excavation has , unfortunately , been limited in its extent and scope , with only the 1912–13 and 1924–5 sites sampling the interior ; more recent work has been confined to the defences and the west gate and to a settlement complex in the rural-urban fringe east of the town . |
| 15 | Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait led to the abandonment by the UAE of a traditional policy of neutrality and to a welcome for the deployment of the military forces of the US-led coalition in the region . |
| 16 | A metal ‘ halo ’ — secured to her head by four bolts drilled into her skull , and to a plaster cast stretching from hips to shoulder — kept Lisa 's head stationary |
| 17 | The statement committed member states to the creation of an inter-governmental group to seek agreement on trade liberalization among SAARC countries , and to a proposal made by Sri Lanka to establish a SAARC preferential trade agreement by 1997 . |
| 18 | He was also sentenced to 90 days in prison and to a fine of US$1,000 , both of which were suspended . |
| 19 | But his pose as a victim of a harsh literary establishment was utterly essential to his own sense of being and to a craving for young disciples ; for unlike Lewis he seldom enjoyed , for long , or sought to enjoy , the friendship of his contemporaries . |
| 20 | for instance , residential care in Flanders and the Netherlands seems more closely tied to psychological assessment of children and to a diagnosis/treatment approach than in the United Kingdom — at least for social services cases . |
| 21 | include provision for pupils to talk and listen in groups of different sizes and to a range of audiences ; |
| 22 | London , especially Inner London , gains considerably from the heavy weight given to population density and to a range of household characteristics derived from the Census , which are widely used in the redistributional formulae . |
| 23 | there is one general module descriptor which applies both to vocal work and to a range of instrumental types ; |
| 24 | Finally , the multimedia system would have an altogether different view , this time of a body of text embedded throughout with handles linking text segments to one another and to a range of externally stored texts , images , and recordings . |
| 25 | Act , 1919 , ( the Addison Act ) broke new ground in British housing policy in two related respects : the emphasis on building new dwellings to garden suburb ideals and to a standard hitherto unsurpassed in the public sector ; and the neglect of the older slums . |
| 26 | From the perspective of humans , solidarity is expressed in opposition to a category of predatory beings which regard humans as their prey , on the one hand , and to a category of prey which regard humans as their predators , on the other . |
| 27 | Loans were made to Edinburgh , as part of the Adam celebrations ; to the ‘ London : World City 1800–1840 ’ exhibition in Essen ; to Brussels , for an exhibition on Sir Edwin Lutyens and Nigel Coates ; and to a total of 11 UK and six overseas venues . |
| 28 | the average fall in sound pressure levels of four to five dB(A) was attributed to a decrease in the number of passing vehicles , to a reduction in speeds and to a change in driving style . |
| 29 | The exhibition travels to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow ( 6 May to 27 June ) ; possibly Copenhagen ( dates not yet finalised ) and probably to the Royal Academy in London and to a museum in Japan . |
| 30 | And to a heart that has earned it , too . |