Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 2 | Because of the sensitive nature of this service the pre-issuance review is necessary to give additional assurance that the firm policy is adhered to and that the firm 's report is clear and responds to the needs of the client . |
| 3 | Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ? |
| 4 | The increased ionisation along the earth 's lines of magnetic force make them more conductive and leads to an increased current flow with consequent rise in magnetic flux levels . |
| 5 | The important experimental point to remember is that dust will also scatter light and contribute to the scattering intensity . |
| 6 | Her anguished voice made her mother realise something was seriously wrong and dashed to the family home in Spennymoor , County Durham . |
| 7 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 8 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 9 | But it was old and held to the post with bits of string in proper agricultural fashion . |
| 10 | Thankfully , though , there still remained one stark difference between the two men ; because where Luther had a cruel and vicious streak in his character , David was a gentle soul , generous and accommodating to a fault . |
| 11 | She pulled her arm free and walked to the booth , lifting the receiver off the wall . |
| 12 | Your call is free and goes to a central advisory unit rather than to your local Social Security office . |
| 13 | His fingers were sweaty , his touch proprietorial , and all at once she wrenched free and turned to the man who 'd come to her assistance . |
| 14 | But as she shook her hair free and turned to the door , she realised that Miguel was already missing . |
| 15 | It is hard to escape the implication that a major source of this taboo is the sense that the priest kneeling down and washing women 's ‘ naked ’ feet would be somehow both sexual and polluting to the sacred . |
| 16 | Some of us decided to get into the social and talk to the men . |
| 17 | Jesus is seen as British and belonging to the British . |
| 18 | His shirt was getting wet and moulding to the hard , enticing lines of his chest . |
| 19 | Your Maria Cork [ Healthcare , Beckton ] is so helpful , charming and comes to the bank promptly and early . |
| 20 | In my view , the existing available protection is adequate and gives to a governmental body all such rights as are necessary in a democratic society for the protection of its governing reputation . |
| 21 | His ideal hero was a knightly hero who besides being brave and loyal was dignified , chivalrous , compassionate and vowed to the service of a rigid standard of personal conduct , the slightest violation of which is an unappeasable torment to his conscience . |
| 22 | Such formidable economic successes gave the German people a new confidence and allowed the expansion of social services , with a major pensions reform in 1957 , when old age pensions were made universal and tied to the cost of living . |
| 23 | For this , you don a neoprene suit , boots , flippers and life-jacket and take to the water in a specially adapted inflated lorry inner tube . |
| 24 | The Moffat Discovery has been designed and built to conform to or exceed all relevant British Standards so it is guaranteed to be safe , reliable and engineered to the highest quality . |
| 25 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |
| 26 | Such a score may look very clever and knowing to the uninitiated , but the result in performance is a jumble of sound and a blurring of the essential outlines . |
| 27 | A very good-value lunch can be enjoyed here , cooked and served to a high standard by the students of the school . |
| 28 | The savoury rice was bone dry , half cooked and stuck to the pan . |
| 29 | It 's square , blue and white , generally weather resistant and belongs to the genus Hague . |
| 30 | It made such stellar acquisitions as the Packard collection of Japanese art , twenty-five Chinese paintings from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties , a Bacchic group by Bernini , Monet 's ‘ Terrace at Sainte-Adresse ’ , the Robert Lehman collection , David 's ‘ Portrait of Lavoisier and his wife ’ , the Temple of Dendur , Canova 's ‘ Perseus ’ and Velasquez 's ‘ Juan de Pareja ’ ( still the most important single paintings acquisition since its purchase in 1970 ) and made the museum more accessible and inviting to the public . |