Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In recent months I have had the opportunity to go to Kashmir by arrangement with both the Pakistani Government and the Indian Government , and I have seen the profound suffering among Kashmiris of both religions — Hindu and Muslim .
2 A short order may be made , for example , to give a parent the opportunity to return to court with legal representation .
3 In this respect it seems unlikely that successive governments were given the opportunity to return to normalcy in the manner which they wished .
4 WHEN delegates of the Whitbread Merit Table clubs took time off from their deliberations over leagues last week to enjoy a day out at the University Match , they took the opportunity to complain to Cardiff about the legions of players who have made the journey to the Arms Park in recent months .
5 An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets .
6 This 28-day programme should have given you the opportunity to come to terms with your body .
7 Commentators attributed much of the willingness to compromise to moves by China and Vietnam towards normalizing relations [ see p. 38436 ] .
8 More than any other comfort his delighted kisses in return soothed her and eventually she was able to put him down and go into the kitchen to speak to Teresa about the day 's duties .
9 This is surprising since the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has ruled in that the refusal to engage a pregnant woman and a dismissal on grounds of pregnancy are a form of direct discrimination covered by Council Directive 76/207/ EEC without the necessity to resort to comparisons with the treatment which would be meted out to a man in a comparable situation .
10 F.L. Bowles the employer , relying on an implied mobility clause , ordered the employee to transfer to Scotland from his home in Nottingham .
11 It is sufficient to notice here that speaking in tongues is one of the gifts of the Spirit to his people ( I Cor. 12:10 ) , and that the primary purpose is to enable the recipient to pray to God from the depths of his being and not merely from the conscious levels of his mind .
12 One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art .
13 Marx had expected the communists to come to power in the most developed industrial societies of the West , where there would already be considerable accumulated wealth , scientific knowledge , and industrial capital to provide well-being for all .
14 This learning process has been refined still further ( Acarnley et al , 1984 ) , enabling the controller to react to changes in load occurring between successive positioning operations .
15 The psychologist justified his own persuasive efforts with this belief that he was actually helping the parents to come to terms with a decision ‘ they really want to make ’ .
16 It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands .
17 We believe that farmers should take an increased interest now in these matters because the erm general public are concerned about the rising instance of pollution and I think that farmers owe it to the remainder of the community to come to places like Muck '89 and see for themselves exactly what new machinery is available to combat pollution .
18 Perhaps most importantly the vendor should remember that the value of the consideration shares can go down as well as up and the purchaser may require the vendor to agree to restrictions on the manner and timing of subsequent sales of the shares by the vendor .
19 One change that is associated with ageing and that will alter the rhythms of hormone release is the declining ability of the body to respond to instructions from the brain .
20 The failure to come to terms with this task casts light on , though it does not excuse , the hectic character of the final part of Braudel 's Méditerranée : even when connections are traced between conjonctures and the actions of individuals , they tend to leave the actions heavily under-determined — so much so , in some cases , that they are barely explained at all .
21 Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues .
22 When combined with the need to acclimatise to life at 3,000m ( at Breckenridge or Copper Mountain , for example ) , the after-effects of a journey like this can eat into precious holiday time .
23 He thought of Beryl and the need to come to grips with the Garland set-up as it had been before the old man 's death .
24 For most students they are centred in the need to come to terms with failure .
25 I have no desire to rake over the past but we should have the right to refer to matters of historical record .
26 The EC wants all women to have the right to return to work after 14 weeks ' paid leave , but it looks as though British women will receive sick pay , rather than full pay .
27 But by March that year the Chiefs of Staff were recording a victory for their view of the Middle East , and were arguing that this implied that Britain must hang on to the right to return to bases in Egypt , even in the absence of agreement .
28 Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , then Army C.-in-C. , ended the crisis on Feb. 2 when he persuaded the dockworkers to return to work in exchange for the government reconsidering the privatization issue .
29 It was obvious now that Isobel should be the person to talk to Anna about this job in Pricewell 's .
30 It is a matter of judgement , in many cases , as to whether it is preferable to allow the pursuer to proceed to enquiry with a bad case or whether it is better to have the problem cured thus improving the defender 's understanding of what the pursuer 's case is .
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