Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why was the capitalist mode of production more efficient than feudal landownership , and why does this generate social and political change leading to a new power structure in society ? |
| 2 | Johannes Uyttenbogaert was closely involved with the Remonstrants , a liberal and political movement opposed to the extremes of Calvinism . |
| 3 | Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have . |
| 4 | In this respect , San Francisco 's version of the exhibition gains from the proximity of ‘ Collection ’ , that important triptych of paint and collaged material belonging to the museum , in which Rauschenberg rehearsed the full range of the combined techniques which he would employ for the next ten years . |
| 5 | Later the collision fenders were painted white to be seen in the blackout and sticky netting fixed to the window glass to prevent splintering ; there was a small diamond shaped hole in the centre , through which passengers were expected to discover where they were . |
| 6 | The divisions between special and mainstream education extend to a division between curriculum and curriculum delivery . |
| 7 | There could have been greater consultation with both nursery nurse and life preparation students and due consideration given to the fact that completed craft projects are an important part of a nursery nurse 's final assessment . |
| 8 | We used Cox proportional hazards models to compare the incidence of coronary heart disease and total mortality according to the state of dental health at baseline while at the same time controlling for several potential confounding variables . |
| 9 | His encouragement to the Tory press to take a strong Protestant and anti-Peelite line contributed to the perpetuation of the 1846 disruption . |
| 10 | Within a month the Allies invaded France and public attention shifted to the fighting there . |
| 11 | The speed of the upswing was largely the result of the scale of monetary and fiscal stimulus given to the system as a whole . |
| 12 | In the nine months to 30 September 1992 , profit before tax at Willis Corroon fell by 31.6% to £60.9m , and Commercial Union returned to a profit before tax of £6.1m ( v £42.4m loss ) . |
| 13 | In the following year she is reincarnated , but into wood , not flesh and blood : she becomes furniture , a cross between a throne and a commode , her mask-like head and rigid hand fixed to the chair back , her wig suggested by curly iron coat hooks and carved wooden scrolls and flourishes . |
| 14 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 15 | David Hill 's Turner and the Thames traces Turner 's journeys along the Thames during 1805 and charts the artist 's relationship with the river through topographical and social history relating to the paintings . |
| 16 | The leader of all the Russias admitted that the country 's economic and social crisis amounted to a ‘ sword of Damocles ’ hanging over it . |
| 17 | My contention that the functioning of the courts was a consequence of the implementation of specific judicial policies in a unique cultural and social setting points to the historical approach of the book . |
| 18 | Measuring 13′ × 11′ having feature fireplace with tiled background and hardwood surround , fitted ‘ Real Flame ’ gas fire , picture rail and french door leading to the garden . |
| 19 | In discussing the rating tasks from Groeger and Chapman ( in preparation , b ) , there has been a tendency to assume that the distinction between variable and fixed information corresponds to the distinction between central and peripheral information . |
| 20 | The difficulty of netting in summer and early autumn relates to the problems of pushing the net stakes into the ground easily . |
| 21 | The Faculty offers opportunities for full- and part-time study leading to the award of a range of postgraduate degrees and diplomas . |
| 22 | Factories were closed , industry shut down and central government came to a halt ; there was no transport and the supermarket shelves emptied . |
| 23 | The dilemma was to persist , with no clear and consistent signal coming to the industry . |
| 24 | Sent to Drake Hall Womens Prison in Staffordshire The twenty one year old judge 's daughter appears to have encountered a regime of drugs and drink with stories of sex and easy access according to the Daily Express . |
| 25 | The source of this problem , as Sampson ( 1980 : 153 ) points out , is that the narrow restriction of ‘ data ’ to constructed sentences and personal introspection leads to a ‘ non-testability ’ , in principle , of any claims made . |
| 26 | The surface of the helmet was almost totally covered with figural and interlaced ornament applied to the surface of the iron cap in the form of tinned bronze sheeting into which the ornament had been stamped with dies . |
| 27 | A thin-sliced T-weighted MRI and magnetic resonance angiography was obtained with a Radionics MRI ring and fiducial system attached to the patient 's skull . |
| 28 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 29 | The unusually smooth driveline and comfortable ride add to a general sense of well-being . |
| 30 | In 1974 , the loss of FIS and the payment of tax and national insurance amounted to an 89 per cent marginal tax rate . |