Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With most other designing systems , from punchcards to electronics an ‘ average ’ proportion such as three to five , or five to seven for instance is used , sometimes making the drawing of shapes a bit of a problem . |
| 2 | Right , and stem the bleeding if you can see where it 's coming from attempt to stem the bleeding , bung the hole up , okay ? |
| 3 | Eventually the blades will take on sufficient pitch to windmill the engine and provoke a normal start but there can be anxious moments , wondering if the elastic is going to wind up while the starter motor slaves away . |
| 4 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 5 | In particular , as δ tends to unity the above implies that approaches zero if and approaches infinity if . |
| 6 | As ta ; tends to unity the types become progressively more far sighted , so to ensure that it is still not worth engaging in the permanent imitation of z = 0 the benefits from following the equilibrium strategy are increased . |
| 7 | Some argue that the dominant effect of the new technology will be to de-skill the workforce , destroying craft occupations and fragmenting jobs into meaningless elements which can be performed by unskilled operators controlled by large-scale bureaucracies run in the interests of international capital . |
| 8 | Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available . |
| 9 | Women going to the mosque had their veils snatched off ; a Moslem waterseller was set upon and beaten ; Moslem stalls in the market were upset ; and during the evening call to prayer a bell had been rung loudly . |
| 10 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the ability of employers to take out injunctions to prevent unofficial strike action and the ability of the courts to sequester the funds of unions that ignore such injunctions can act as a very firm and much-needed last line of defence against industrial anarchy ? |
| 11 | You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 . |
| 12 | To a large extent the Templar lands served to tide the crown over until the alien priories , briefly confiscated in 1324–6 , were seized again from 1337 until 1361 . |
| 13 | An immediate Exchequer grant was provided to tide the hospitals over the emergency . |
| 14 | The first loan was often sought to escape a pauper funeral , to keep the children off the school meals list , to pay for boots , or to tide the family over the illness of the breadwinner . |
| 15 | Given these qualifications , broad categories of value are locative — names derived from place-names or topographical features ; of relationship — names of fathers or mothers , with additional syllables , pet names , font names and diminutives ; occupational and social status — indications of trade , calling or office , carried down the centuries , often in mutilated or garbled form ; nicknames — tags and sobriquets which were sufficiently distinctive , felicitous and pronounceable as to stand the test of time . |
| 16 | But Pat , of Stockport , was delighted to taco the money and run . |
| 17 | Within a year or two the government ( of whichever party ) is expected to put to Parliament a radical reform which would do away with the charade of having to prove marriage breakdown . |
| 18 | On Feb. 6 the Cabinet approved and sent on to parliament a package of measures to tighten German export controls . |
| 19 | In June 1990 the Lubbers government presented to parliament a revised National Environmental Plan replacing that which had brought down Lubbers ' previous centre-right coalition [ see pp. 36666-67 ; 36900 ] . |
| 20 | It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law ‘ by the back door . ’ |
| 21 | It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law ‘ by the back door . ’ |
| 22 | On Nov. 14 Amato submitted to parliament an ambitious programme of privatization to raise L 27,000,000 million for the Treasury over the next three years , leaving the state with only " significant " minority holdings in many sectors . |
| 23 | The queen 's popularity soared still further when , on 9 April 1713 , she was able to announce to Parliament the final signature , two days before , of the Treaty of Utrecht , restoring peace to Europe and bringing to Great Britain such solid benefits as the destruction of the fortifications of Dunkirk and the retention of Gibraltar as a British possession . |
| 24 | Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election . |
| 25 | It is generally felt that in the past local authorities have dragged their feet in taking on their responsibilities to care for mentally disordered people , and the Minister of Health , Roger Freeman , outlined further plans for this group to Parliament the day after Secretary of State Kenneth Clarke 's speech on community care ; these were , clearly , some last-minute additions to the government 's package of proposals . |
| 26 | Presenting to parliament the budget for the fiscal year starting on Jan. 1 , 1991 , the Prime Minister stressed on Jan. 15 that the poor economic growth during 1990 was a result of damage caused by hurricane " Hugo " in September 1989 [ see p. 36891 ] . |
| 27 | There is a kind of contradiction in classical structuralist writing which attributes to literature a non-referential self-sufficiency supposed to incarnate language 's very being , and yet which continues itself to employ a language whose referential scientificity ignores the very qualities that it speaks of . |
| 28 | In theory he was correct , and in 1838 , well after Herschel 's death , the German astronomer F. W. Bessel managed to measure a star distance in this way . |
| 29 | The resulting motion of the tip can be used to measure the amount of dopant atoms below it . |
| 30 | Yet it still finds that the official statistics-gathering system is designed to measure the state economy , but not the rapidly growing private one . |