Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cecchini report , commissioned by the EC Commission in 1988 , entitled ‘ The Cost of Non-Europe ’ estimated that the total potential savings to the Community as a whole from the completion of the single market at 1988 prices was about 5% of the Community 's gross domestic product . |
| 2 | If this was the sleeping arrangement prior to the patient 's illness , the family may have to supply a fairly wide single bed for the patient , or the carer might sleep in a separate bed , leaving the normal conjugal bed to the patient . |
| 3 | The headlights of the Fiat swept from one side of the narrow winding road to the other , picking out an area of ploughed field , a thicket of scrub oaks with last year 's brown leaves still clinging to the branches , an ancient wooden cart fitted with modern lorry tyres , an abandoned barn covered with posters for a dance band called ‘ The Lads of the Adriatic ’ , a dirt track leading off into the hills . |
| 4 | Ludovico went straight to the Via Santo Spirito , strode purposefully through the leafy courtyard , and ran up the broad shallow stairs to the top floor . |
| 5 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 6 | The low-key Israeli response to the resolution also reflected an improvement in Israeli-US relations following a meeting in Washington on Dec. 12 between US President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir [ see p. 37929 ] . |
| 7 | West African currencies , because of their rigid link to the French franc , are tied through the European Monetary System to the German mark , so have been heavily — and damagingly — upvalued against the American dollar . |
| 8 | One corpse had slipped from the low single bed to the right of the door and lay staring up at her , the mouth open , the head almost cleft from the body . |
| 9 | PP : I understand that Barclays is the largest European lender to the Philippines with loans totalling over $384 million and that in 1987 you refused to sign a loan extension agreement between the Philippine government and 500 commercial creditors unless the $57 million debts of a private company , Planters Products PLC , were assumed by the government . |
| 10 | Japan was thus one of the largest financial contributors to the coalition , along with the USA , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend will know that , not too far from Wakefield , the chairman of one of the hospital trusts in Leeds , who is the largest private donator to the Tory party — a man who decided last week that he would use private medicine in the hospital trust that he manages — was yet another of those appointments . |
| 12 | Yet the new terms failed to prevent Britain becoming the largest net contributor to the EC budget by 1979 , when Margaret Thatcher came to office and began a determined campaign to cut Britain 's payments . |
| 13 | For much of the 1970s investment in manufacturing had remained fairly constant , but with the onset of recession in 1979 it declined sharply , making the largest single contribution to the overall fall in GDFCF . |
| 14 | Will the Queen summon the leader of the largest single party to the Palace and ask him to form a government ? |
| 15 | All rail links with Verdun were soon destroyed by the German bombardment , so Petain ordered the improvement and widening of the sole remaining road to the fortress that from Bar-le-Duc , 48km/30mls to the south . |
| 16 | The Chief of Defence Staff is now the sole military adviser to the Government , drawing his advice from the three single Service Chiefs of Staff , whose responsibility is to give the naval , army and air points of view , unfettered by the need to reach collective decisions . |
| 17 | Wriggling his toes with a sigh of relief , he looked out through the tall louvred doors to the deep marble terrace stretching the full length of the suite . |
| 18 | ‘ They would n't be swarming all over Kentish Town , would they , those rats and flies ? ’ demanded Constance , opening the tall wooden gate to the back garden . |
| 19 | After all , no one had warned him , ’ continued the tall fat soutane to the small fat soutane . |
| 20 | No notice , ’ said the tall fat soutane to the small fat soutane , as Tilley and the Irishman wormed by . |
| 21 | The possible relevance of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks to the petroleum prospects of the area will be mentioned later ; this brief account begins by considering the significance of the Carboniferous strata in the Northwest Basin . |
| 22 | It involves close cooperation between central and local authorities and is designed to ensure that large scale developments bring the greatest possible benefit to the areas in which they are sited through , for example , the use of local labour and materials . |
| 23 | The artwork needs to offer the greatest possible contrast to the camera , so it is best to use a very black ink on a very white paper ( equally true , of course , for photocopying regardless of what colour paper you want to print on ) . |
| 24 | With the sole exception of the global communist movement , the Green or environmentalist movement presents the greatest contemporary challenge to the global capitalist system . |
| 25 | Since the 1950s , its composition has altered , in that there has been a shift from the rural informal proletariat to the urban . |
| 26 | But the emphasis of officially inspired newspaper articles has switched from the need to defend the Saudi holy places to the need to liberate Kuwait . |
| 27 | Among the 22 factors listed were : the right technical skills to the job ; good understanding of the client 's business ; being proactive ; being able to introduce business leads and having access to international resources . |
| 28 | I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 29 | I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 30 | I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Sheffield , Attercliffe ( Sir P. |