Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , par excellence , both Pole and European , looking forward eagerly to the day of the creation of a united Europe — to him the ‘ motherland of motherlands ’ — free from the control of or undue influence from the two super powers . |
| 2 | Dissatisfaction and despair regarding domestic crises were strong motivating factors on both occasions as young intellectuals sought solutions to personal and national problems outside of China or as Wang wrote , ‘ looked eagerly to the west for the magic which would solve the problems of their country ’ ( Wang 1928 : 60 ) . |
| 3 | Brenda looked forward eagerly to the arrival of the Brownie Pack . |
| 4 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 5 | Bush objected fiercely to a decision by the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 , 1989 , to halve the funding available for mobilizing the missiles on the rail network . |
| 6 | I recall Leslie Compton of Middlesex bowling and keeping wicket in the same match and , somewhat to the annoyance of the spectators , padding and unpadding at the end of each over . |
| 7 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 8 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 9 | The vet was forced into an unscheduled arrival at 50 miles-an-hour into a nearby farm-yard , much to the surprise of a herd of Jerseys ambling their way to the milking parlour ! |
| 10 | Thanks to her capable care — and much to the surprise of the doctors — he did n't succumb until the age of seventy , despite his daily ‘ only bit a pleasure ’ , ten Woodbines and a box of Swans . |
| 11 | So now he is clubbed to death instead , much to the surprise of the audience . |
| 12 | Much to the surprise of the bishops , he did this by a motu proprio on 15 September , Apostolica Sollicitudo . |
| 13 | Eva was out and up the steps before the other leader , greeting her deputy with an affectionate hug and kiss , much to the surprise of the man who was still climbing the steps . |
| 14 | By studying one thinker who has contributed much to the development of a certain type of political thought we might , as a result , avoid the problem of simply re-creating mythologies . |
| 15 | At the very end of the afternoon , and try on a swimsuit and sarong — much to the amazement of a few spectators , who , on such a cold day , shivered and pulled their coats firmly around them . |
| 16 | Some of the Commandos could not resist the temptation and burst into the Horst Wessel song , rounding it all off with three hearty cheers , much to the amazement of the German prisoners . |
| 17 | Opting for a vast lunch in a pub , he ordered the dish of the day — haggis — then topped it off with a ploughman 's lunch and the landlady 's home-made black bun , much to the amazement of the proprietors . |
| 18 | The forecast mechanism proposed here is one which is much to the advantage of the buyer , since it carries no obligation upon the buyer to purchase all or any of the forecast quantities . |
| 19 | The arrival of Mosley would mean a British controlling interest at the top , much to the astonishment of the French and the Italians , the selfstyled ‘ Mediterranean mafia ’ who had hoped to retain a balance of power . |
| 20 | I sometimes wonder , though , whether they speak much to the occupants of the Labour Front Bench because I see the 1990s as the decade of the north-east and the north-west . |
| 21 | The Reagan administration 's success in building a series of ad hoc coalitions in support of key economic policy votes owed much to the brilliance of the White House staff with special responsibility for dealing with legislature . |
| 22 | Military organization , too , owed much to the whim of the Tsar . |
| 23 | Mortimer , who dominated the council , wielded power with no more tact and delicacy than had the Despensers or Edward II ; Henry of Lancaster , Mortimer 's erstwhile ally , was excluded from policy-making in 1328 , and in 1330 the earl of Kent was accused of conspiracy and summarily executed , much to the alarm of the other nobles . |
| 24 | Once she came to Mansfield Street with the King , and stayed over four hours , arranging and playing with everything , much to the chagrin of a lady in waiting who was kept firmly outside the drawing room ! |
| 25 | Though he was , like McCarthy , anti-war , he believed Johnson to be invincible ; now he too entered the race , much to the chagrin of the McCarthy camp who accused him of muscling in on their act . |
| 26 | Kilburn had a charter dating from the reign of Charles II which was thought to be in the possession of a family who had the local pub , but they — and it — have disappeared , much to the chagrin of the locals who have tried to trace it . |
| 27 | By the end of the seventeenth century the high-street undertaker was trying his hand at the technique , much to the chagrin of the surgeons and the apothecaries . |
| 28 | That first success on the Dru twins came in 1878 when Clinton Dent , with his companion J. W. Hartley and Swiss guides Alexander Burgener and Kasper Maurer , reached the summit of the Grand Dru [ 3,754m ] — much to the chagrin of the local men . |
| 29 | Hence it was not surprising that its proposals were not speedily implemented , much to the chagrin of the House of Commons Energy Committee , three years later . |
| 30 | He claimed the ball had hit his bat , the square-leg umpire agreed and he was recalled , much to the chagrin of the bowler , Ian Beven . |