Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around Holly there was a wail of anger that seethed across the illuminated strip and reached up to the watchtower from where the searchlight dazzled them . |
| 2 | John Smith , senior vice-president , operations said that while the company 's goal was to return to profitability as soon as possible , ‘ for the remainder of 1992 we remain cautious about both revenues and profits due to the uncertainties in both the industry and worldwide economies . ’ |
| 3 | We eased ourselves along the channel out between the rocks to the edge of where the waves were breaking and watched a few big sets roll through . |
| 4 | Long-wave theories have devoted most attention to the question of why the bunching exists . |
| 5 | Economists working in this field are attempting to find answers to the question of why the various estimates of NAIRU exhibit a persistent tendency to rise over time . |
| 6 | As to the question of where the resources should come from , avoiding the easy ( albeit probably correct ) let-out of ‘ abolish capitalism ’ , I would say simply that the transfer of money to unpaid workers ought to be the next stage in the redistribution of wealth , taking precedence over ‘ breadwinners ’ pay claims , tax-cuts or ‘ family ’ benefit increases . |
| 7 | to the question of how the dinosaurs regulated , or failed to regulate , their body heat . |
| 8 | Most of the coastal details of these islands were fairly well known to the hydrographers of both the British and Dutch navies , but little was known about their inland geography . |
| 9 | But the non-legal aspect of citizenship is also vital , and appropriate institutional and procedural arrangements need to be developed that will promote the practice of citizenship and harness senses of national community , social cohesion and ‘ civic virtue ’ to the benefit of both the state and the community of citizens . |
| 10 | Warranties and guarantees are thus generally to the benefit of both the buyer and the seller , but there is one area where their interests do not coincide . |
| 11 | Since they are subject to the disciplines of neither the market nor the ballot box they can become ineffectual . |
| 12 | A The received wisdom indicates that to restrain timber across its width will lead to the fracture of either the glue line of the lateral end piece , or the splitting of the board itself . |
| 13 | The theme of accountability is crucial to the operation of both the private and public sectors . |
| 14 | They would never get more than a phrase completed before an argument would break out as to the merit of either the words or the music . |
| 15 | Even if it did n't lead to the elimination of all the older , ‘ flawed ’ models , a narrow range of ‘ new ’ species might well reduce the older ones to huddled groups in farming heritage parks . |
| 16 | Much of the savings , in the official view , will arise from the new structure 's needs for fewer managers , but even that is less than convincing for there is great scope for an increase in bureaucracy , from the need to dispatch the business deriving from the newly acquired functions to the formation of twice the number of existing education , roads and social work departments . ’ |
| 17 | Nevertheless , I was told that I had ‘ contributed nothing constructive ’ to the life of either the house or the school . |
| 18 | The aspect in question relates to the problem of where the extra means of production for accumulation would come from . |
| 19 | This remark did not , as his passengers might have thought , refer either to the condition of the road or to his not having thought on about Easter , but to the problem of where the other two were going to eat lunch . |
| 20 | There is a £50,000 bonus available to the winner of both the Irish Champion and Cheltenham 's premier hurdle . |
| 21 | The other approach was to switch the emphasis away from the development of new sources of electricity supply to the issue of how the demand for power could be controlled in the first place . |
| 22 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 23 | The outcome in this patient suggests that the delay in diagnosis and hence starting effective antibiotic treatment may have given rise to the abnormality in both the humoral response and T cell function , which on this occasion may have contributed to the development of an associated extraintestinal lymphoma . |
| 24 | Geomagnetic north is not to be confused with the geographic north pole , at 90N , about 770 miles to the north of both the magnetic and geomagnetic poles . |
| 25 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 26 | The key light is then added , angled on to the subject from alongside the camera . |
| 27 | In the case of L Rowland and Co ( Retail ) Ltd , the High Court found that the period of time for which the clock stops during an enquiry by Customs can only reasonably be limited to the period from when the local office initiates the enquiry with the trader to the day when a satisfactory answer is given by the trader . |
| 28 | The great majority of voters give their first vote either to the CDU/CSU or to the SPD in much the same way as most British voters give their only vote to the Conservatives or Labour : that is where their basic loyalty lies . |
| 29 | Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked . |
| 30 | Then I noticed that Helen had n't much room by my side , so I stepped to the left to where the grating should have been and slid gracefully down into the cellar . |