Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A RARE insight into the kindly nature of novelist Thomas Hardy has come to light , thanks to the efforts of a retired Dorset schoolmaster . |
| 2 | Dealings by persons who are connected in this fashion ( concert parties ) are treated as equivalent to the dealings of a single person . |
| 3 | In the late 1890s , for example , Ramsay MacDonald worked closely with J. A. Hobson on the Progressive Review , a liberal socialist journal which attacked ‘ Manchesterism ’ in the name of domestic social reform , while remaining ‘ keenly alive to the dangers of a powerful State , taken as an instrument of absolute control and adducing ‘ reasons of State ’ as an over-ruling principle of policy . ’ |
| 4 | These have been falling in value , exposing the banks to the dangers of a shrinking capital base . |
| 5 | In the campaign , Kennedy pointed to the dangers of a growing recession and had pledged to " move America forward " . |
| 6 | As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection . |
| 7 | Connected to the drains via a tundish and must discharge in a safe and visible place |
| 8 | In the course of the creation of the data file by the survey organisation — a very complex process — a computer error led to the omission of a significant amount of information . |
| 9 | SOCIAL service chiefs were yesterday urged to speak to the operators of a gipsy site before going ahead with redevelopment plans . |
| 10 | SOCIAL services chiefs were yesterday urged to speak to the operators of a gipsy site before going ahead with plans to redevelop it . |
| 11 | NOT only did the Kiwis get blown off the park at the Hong Kong Sevens by Fiji , but three gnarled members of their supporters club got taken to the cleaners in a local hostess bar . |
| 12 | Mr Humphreys also drew attention to the installation of a new magnetic body scanner at the Yarm Road Industrial Estate in Darlington . |
| 13 | The danger of toxic gases , such as carbon monoxide and sulphur hexafluoride , has led to the installation of a computerised gas-detection system in 60 homes . |
| 14 | Confusion sometimes arises over the use of the words ‘ book ’ and ‘ volume ’ , normally regarded as almost interchangeable , but taking on a special meaning , often indicated by the title-page , when applied to the make-up of a complete work . |
| 15 | Ultra-high purity titanium is critical to the manufacture of a wide variety of semiconductor devices and , allied to the other metals and alloys produced by Alta , offers further exciting growth opportunities in the coming years . |
| 16 | The different bodies mentioned in chapter 3 followed different routes to the objective of a free-labour world . |
| 17 | it also has something to do with her predominant yearning for an idyllic space which is similar to the yearning for a classical Golden Age . |
| 18 | ‘ Openness must be central to the policing of a democratic and pluralist society , ’ he said : all too often , the police had retreated behind ‘ one of many walls of silence , ’ giving one of a series of stock excuses to the press and public for refusing to disclose information . |
| 19 | They lived next to the church in a peaceful village . |
| 20 | Charles van Engen deals with the issue of the relationship of the Kingdom to the Church in a sensitive and scholarly way in his book The Growth of the True Church . |
| 21 | People attached to the church in a voluntary capacity are in a quasi-professional position ( e.g. SUNDAY SCHOOL BEAST 'S SHAME ; PERVERT RAN CLUB FOR KIDS ) . |
| 22 | In contrast to the idea of a comprehensive and static defence shield , Brilliant Pebbles envisaged the deployment in space of multitudes of robot vehicles equipped with sensory systems and having the preparedness to launch laser attacks at on-coming Soviet missiles . |
| 23 | In other words , Athens was still holding to the idea of a central Greek , religiously based land empire . |
| 24 | Thirdly , Franco and advisers such as his brother-in-law , Ramón Serrano Suñer , looking ahead to a post-war Spain and impressed by Italian and German precedents , were becoming increasingly attracted to the idea of a single-party and perhaps even totalitarian state . |
| 25 | However , in contrast to that of Hirtle , the analysis put forward here proposes that without to the idea of a prior position in time is not evoked , since otherwise the particle would be completely redundant and hence meaningless , which has been shown not to be the case . |
| 26 | I am attracted to the idea of a printed Directory of Committees in a number of parts : |
| 27 | One other type of statue is integral to the idea of a Doric temple , though not a part of it : the cult-statue within . |
| 28 | Linked to the idea of a personal God is the notion of God as an historical agent . |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher told the Soviet minister yesterday that Britain is not opposed to the idea of a pan-European summit , but the participants must agree on how it will fit into the building of the ‘ new European architecture . ’ |
| 30 | It was this group which brought Murat round to the idea of a new constitution and who co-operated with Napoleon in that masterpiece of enlightened despotism , the Constitution of Bayonne . |