Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The style and format of teachers ' guides vary from the most detached to the most prescriptive . |
| 2 | Privately-owned housing varies from the detached to the terraced and , for a variety of reasons , detached housing is the most expensive . |
| 3 | Augustine 's world had still contained blocks refractory to the light of the gospel . |
| 4 | ‘ They are unsociable to the quality of life we enjoy within our village . |
| 5 | It is rather unexpectedly glutinous and flabby to the touch — all-in-all rather unpleasant , if it were not for the splash of vivid yellow it gives to an otherwise sombre winter hedgerow . |
| 6 | Stratimirović tried to prevent Vuk from publishing his grammar by invoking an order of Leopold II giving a monopoly to the publishing of books in Serbian to the Serbian press in Buda , which , unlike that in Vienna , was under the influence of the Church . |
| 7 | The way in which ritual develops — or rather is developed — and the characteristics which it assumes , reflect the ordering and preoccupations peculiar to a society . |
| 8 | William Coningham , Liberal MP for Brighton , declared that Gothic was a barbarous style , ‘ peculiar to a sect of which the hon. |
| 9 | Therefore , if we are to exalt the work of Georgia O'Keeffe , let us not exalt it because it seems to be a rare psychic perception of the world peculiar to a woman , but because it is good painting . ’ |
| 10 | There is little in this which is peculiar to a solicitors ' partnership dispute but with regard to the last noted remedy the court recognises the great and possibly irreparable harm that could be done by appointing a receiver over a professional firm and may be reluctant to make such an order at the behest of one disaffected partner ( see Floydd v Cheney [ 1970 ] Ch 602 and Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 ) . |
| 11 | Reminders of all the matters to be dealt with on behalf of a buyer before completion are itemised on the pre-completion agenda ( p226 ) with any items added that are peculiar to a particular transaction . |
| 12 | The standards of competence , on which the qualifications are based , are nationally accepted and are not peculiar to an individual examining body . |
| 13 | Several warehouses and other buildings display the architectural style peculiar to the district in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Where the A625 road from Hathersage to Sheffield crosses one of the ‘ edges ’ peculiar to the Peak District , just before reaching the Yorkshire border , the keen explorer may find heaps of unfinished millstones in the undergrowth . |
| 15 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |
| 16 | As an age-group , a stage of life , adolescents stood , clearly visible , defined and itemized , the embodiment of so many of the tensions and contradictions peculiar to the period , without which they would never have been ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 17 | Citizenship as a subject of discussion was not peculiar to the early twentieth century , but it occupied a special place in the strategy of the boy labour group , and other reformers , in solving the problems posed by working-class adolescence . |
| 18 | These genes hold the information needed to make many structural proteins and enzymes peculiar to the virus . |
| 19 | Whether or not the rough parch at 85mph ( or 2500rpm on the revcounter ) was peculiar to the test car or not I can not say ; if it is common to all , it is very disappointing , and the fact that you can drive through it is of little compensation since at higher speeds there is enough wind roar for two cars . |
| 20 | The conventions of impermanence , where the cat breaks all its teeth or has all its hair burned off or is squashed flat and , the next moment , becomes whole again , seem to be peculiar to the comic strip and the animated cartoon . |
| 21 | For the time being , and probably for the foreseeable future , the rather vague criterion remains that of ‘ episcopal ordination ’ , vague because that procedure is not peculiar to the Anglican Church . |
| 22 | And , as a consequence , a phenomenon , peculiar to the species , called ‘ belief ’ , takes hold like an infection , or on-going plague , and in the course of time a formidable hierarchical structure develops . |
| 23 | It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family — people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement . |
| 24 | We may examine the technologies applied to the basic raw materials in early Anglo-Saxon society , wood , metal , clay , fibres and minerals , paying particular attention to aspects which are peculiar to the period and leaving the general matters of technology as understood . |
| 25 | It is a process of oceanic generation and destruction — generation in the middle , destruction at the outer edges — that is peculiar to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 26 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 27 | That question itself was not peculiar to the Age of Reason . |
| 28 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 29 | The method we adopt to arrive at an answer will be peculiar to the enquiry ( or discipline ) we are exploring . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , there are features peculiar to the computational approach that have important implications for physiological psychologists and these are the topic of this section . |