Example sentences of "[art] [n mass] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I think that the answer is for manufacturers such as Olivetti to not pass the buck to the dealer using the excuse that it is the dealer who made the buck in the first place ! |
| 2 | At that moment , like the cavalry to the rescue , the main body of Blackshirts arrived to extricate the beleaguered group in Warwick Street . |
| 3 | When the Soviet sent the militia to the colony in order to accuse the inmates of robbing peasants , Makarenko sent even it packing . |
| 4 | Then , with the return of the sheep to the village grazings , we knew that winter was once more upon us . |
| 5 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 6 | If all the data are initially entered into a computer database , the power of a database management system makes it easy to present different views of the data to the researcher , allowing more subtle and complex associations to emerge . |
| 7 | Thetwo models were compared in terms of efficiency in predicting outcome at six weeks ( probability of correct classification ) , in terms of goodness to fit and accuracy of adjustment of the data to the models and finally using receiver operating characteristic curves . |
| 8 | There was a swift unromantic transition from the warm enclosed world of the aircraft to the hurly-burly of the airport . |
| 9 | Only this time nothing happened ; the reverser stayed deployed , continuing to drag the aircraft to the right . |
| 10 | Lawrie was ordered to carry out 100 hours ' community service and to repay the £1,200 to the Thistle Foundation within a year . |
| 11 | From June 7 the Bank of Finland linked the markka to the ECU . |
| 12 | All coarse fishermen return the fish to the water almost immediately , unless they are involved in competition , when the fish are retained for a matter of hours in specially designed nets . |
| 13 | Leave the lights off for an hour or so after you have added the fish to the tank , to give them a chance to settle . |
| 14 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where livestock belonging to any person strays on to land in the ownership or occupation of another and — ( a ) damage is done by the livestock to the land or to any property on it which is in the ownership or possession of the other person ; or ( b ) any expenses are reasonably incurred by that other person in keeping the livestock while it can not be restored to the person to whom it belongs or while it is detained in pursuance of section 7 of [ the ] Act , or in ascertaining to whom it belongs ; the person to whom the livestock belongs is liable for the damage or expenses , except as otherwise provided by [ the ] Act . ’ |
| 15 | If we push the people to the limits of poverty , we will wreck the reforms , ’ Mr Volkogonov said . |
| 16 | It looked as if the stage was set for a carefully planned and timed entry of the leader , on the totalitarian model , but when the time came Aung San passed almost unobserved through the people to the platform , and quietly began his speech . |
| 17 | Erm we , we have of course , we 've got a , we have a congress each year , which erm we , each Guild is allowed to send one delegate and so really , we always stress at the top level that erm you know , it 's you that run the Guild you ca n't blame head office , the Nat National Executive , because you 're the ones who send the people to the top , are n't you ? |
| 18 | And out would come the people to the door , course they could n't see anything or anybody , back they 'd go and then you 'd do it again . |
| 19 | Law educates and adapts the mass of the people to the goals of civil society , defined through ruling class , notions of morality and custom . |
| 20 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 21 | That is why metaphor is so useful to communicate the experiential world of the people to the reader . |
| 22 | Different people kept chipping in with their ideas of what would fire the national imagination sufficiently to get the people to the polling booths . |
| 23 | And again , in the same year , in a letter printed in the London newspapers , he warned : Not the language , not the style to call the people to the barricades , then , but quite the reverse — the language of reform , illuminated by the sweet smile of reason . |
| 24 | In the hope that deteriorating wartime conditions in Vietnam would spark insurrection , a liberation army of sorts was being formed on the border ; but when the attack went off at half-cock ( leaders executed or arrested and followers dispersed ) another threat to the French position was removed and it must have become clear that the only credible threat to French power lay in France itself , at least until the forces of nationalism were able to attract some effective outside sponsorship or else embed themselves in the people to the point where they became an organized national resistance . |
| 25 | Bishop O'Brien reminded the meeting that the Pastoral Council was meant to be a means of bringing the thoughts of the people to the Bishop . |
| 26 | When the council had organized a festival to alert the people to the plight of Nicaragua , she alone of all the neighbours had climbed into the mobile coffee shop , which the council had provided , to drink Nicaraguan coffee and read the Nicaraguan posters which adorned the bulkheads and bulwarks of the van . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if the gift-back of the £1M to the children was part of a preordained scheme inheritance tax of £400,000 will be payable . |
| 28 | During five years of the second LBGA ( 1983–8 ) with the Soviet Union , the United States sold its rival grain worth $7 billion and during two of those years — 1986 and 1987 — subsidized the sales to the tune of $450 million . |
| 29 | The medio-cubital cross-vein ( m-cu ) extending from the media to the cubitus . |
| 30 | INVESTORS took their cue yesterday from the generally dubious reaction of the media to the Budget and the FT-SE 100-Share Index fell 36 points in the first 15 minutes of trading before staging a partial rally to close 29.4 lower on the day at 2,889.9 , 100 points below its all-time high two weeks ago . |