Example sentences of "and to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had received word of the Iran scheme in a stream-of-consciousness memo from McFarlane , delivered to ‘ Secretary Shultz personally and to no other for him ’ , aboard his aircraft on July 13th , 1985 . |
| 2 | The fact remains , however , that there was a certain defensive quality in many Nonconformist discussions on their new buildings ; the Editor of the Baptist Times insisted in 1902 that ‘ today , under changed conditions , we are false to no principle and to no tradition in making our Sanctuaries beautiful as well as useful ’ . |
| 3 | He had been shouting in the open air for more than ten minutes and to no great avail . |
| 4 | I would have been only too pleased to be thrown out , and to no one 's surprise with a poke and a shove I was . |
| 5 | ‘ Secondly , the Commission is answerable only to Parliament , and to no other group nor individual . |
| 6 | Yet somebody had sprayed those two words on the wall , somebody who knew what they would mean to him and to no other occupant of Breakspear College . |
| 7 | She went to see a very eminent specialist , and to no avail . |
| 8 | Firstly , that the acid test whether or not benefit is collateral is that laid down by Best J , namely " Is the covenant beneficial to the owner for the time being of the covenantee 's land , and to no one else ? " |
| 9 | I tried : and to no avail . |
| 10 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 11 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |
| 12 | Designs composed of small masses of veneer forming a readable ‘ picture ’ , correspond roughly in looks , if not in colour , to subjects as they actually appear to the eye ; they seem to be in 3D even though they are flat , and to a degree they are naturalistic . |
| 13 | This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely . |
| 14 | The popularity of Erdinger 's products is no doubt partly due to their clean , easy , drinkability — and to a slight residual sweetness that is an intentional house characteristic . |
| 15 | Obviously the other side of the gap had to be blocked in , and to represent the 1840s the choice fell on Timofey Granovsky , in his time a renowned liberal professor and public speaker , and to a lesser extent a man of letters . |
| 16 | Graham Chapman , who died on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of his first appearance in the show which made his reputation , travelled along ( and to a certain extent pioneered ) that now orthodox route to celebrity . |
| 17 | Inside Cambodia , the Khmer Rouge strongholds are mostly in the western and southern provinces , and to a lesser extent , in the north . |
| 18 | At least Gooch had the consolation of getting out to the best of the home bowlers , and to a man who is coached by former Indian captain , Kapil Dev . |
| 19 | Frequent administrative changes ‘ created conditions for its progressive ( sic ) decline and to a kustar ’ development of communications ' ( it is interesting to note that ‘ kustar' ’ had by then followed ‘ kulak ’ as a term of abuse ) . |
| 20 | Instead , under an amiable leader , Michael Foot , who was savagely pilloried by a largely right-wing press , it was compelled by constituency pressures to have a far-left programme hostile to NATO , to membership of the Common Market , and to a system of national nuclear defence ; it would also be committed to mass nationalization , reinforcing further the power of the unions , and a variety of other proposals unlikely to have much popular appeal . |
| 21 | In tact , the women 's pleas for peace only intensify the men 's desire to fight , and to a sexual degree . |
| 22 | This has led to the tying of aid to a large extent to inappropriate or unduly expensive goods from the donor 's country , to sharp annual variations in the volume of aid flows and to a lack of commitment to real coordination with other donors . |
| 23 | Some of the opposition to liberalization may come from multinational companies used to low interest rates and to a protected local market . |
| 24 | This interest is something which he continued to the end of his life , as witnessed by his increasing knowledge of India and to a lesser extent of China . |
| 25 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 26 | A copy of a paper he had given to the British Association on ‘ The car of the future ’ led to his being summoned to Detroit , and to a commission to design and build it . |
| 27 | His ability to see through human failings , his capacity to analyse other people 's annoyingness , his rich sense of comedy and satire , had as yet only found their outlet in letters to Greeves , and to a lesser extent in such collections as P'dayta-Pie . |
| 28 | Even those one would expect to have rejoiced at the religious revival which Lewis 's popularity heralded and to a certain degree inspired could only bring themselves to sneer . |
| 29 | Still , it is interesting that Kieslowki 's pessimistic perceptions of the Polish state , and to a lesser extent its film industry , have remained unchanged . |
| 30 | Then there is Phil Larder , the third member of the management team which led Great Britain to victory over Australia in Sydney last year and to a 2-1 series win over New Zealand recently . |