Example sentences of "to [art] [noun sg] of [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed the existing system worked to the enrichment of only a small number ; national benefit could be derived from legitimate commerce with a fertile Africa only if the slave trade did not create misleadingly attractive alternatives . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We do not have , in just an effect , such an answer to the question of why a causal circumstance occurred . |
| 4 | We have in a causal circumstance by itself a complete answer to the question of why an effect occurred . |
| 5 | Long-wave theories have devoted most attention to the question of why the bunching exists . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In answer to the question of how a school is further to improve the quality of its pupil education , more plans can be laid . |
| 9 | to the question of how the dinosaurs regulated , or failed to regulate , their body heat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The theme of accountability is crucial to the operation of both the private and public sectors . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless , I was told that I had ‘ contributed nothing constructive ’ to the life of either the house or the school . |
| 19 | The aspect in question relates to the problem of where the extra means of production for accumulation would come from . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Through his efforts in this direction he effectively mocks much that is dear to scholars , historians , literary critics and art historians , especially the concept of a clear chronological sequence : his answer to the problem of how a Mexican can ‘ belong ’ to the dynasty of European art is , as it were , to invade it retrospectively . |
| 22 | There is a £50,000 bonus available to the winner of both the Irish Champion and Cheltenham 's premier hurdle . |
| 23 | But when it comes to the issue of how a given physical stimulus is actually perceived , we have chosen to represent this in terms of the central representational elements that it activates . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me . |
| 27 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The requirements of the sectors which are expanding today bear little resemblance to the requirements of the industries of the last century , or indeed to the industry of only a few decades ago . |
| 30 | 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 . |