Example sentences of "to [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organization was dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism worldwide , and in the latter years of the 1920s Comintern agents began working secretly in the vulnerable , far-flung colonial territories of the capitalist nations to exploit the native discontent . |
| 2 | These blob areas are curious in that the cells have only poor orientation selectivity but are tuned to the wavelength of light instead . |
| 3 | This is processed and after various chemical stages is converted into Potash powder and transported , in bulk , to the Port of Aquaba where it is exported to Third World nations . |
| 4 | Er now , on another topic , I will go back to the idea of regulation later , you 'll see that life expectancy is obviously important and er when you 're looking at retirement I mean it 's always been described as the longest holiday of your life and it certainly is that , and life expectancy is rising all the time , these figures have actually been superseded . |
| 5 | Now the thing is we , we can refer to sight and touch and hearing , but we do n't refer to the sense of smell just as smell , in modern English . |
| 6 | He said that new RUC codes of practice , in addition to the range of safeguards already in place , were intended ‘ to enhance still further public confidence that the police have nothing to hide ’ and protect officers from malicious allegations . |
| 7 | Most students assume that ( ii ) is a question as to the liability of C. Clearly on its wording the question is the same as in ( i ) , namely , as to the liability of A. |
| 8 | The former leads to tests which are congenial to 3 year olds , the latter to the identification of variables whence functional changes in the child 's ‘ theory of mind ’ can be modelled . |
| 9 | Other studies in Oxford on the hypothalamus led to the discovery of compounds now successfully used in the treatment of sterility and cancers of the prostate . |
| 10 | The sound of merriment emanating from the hall jangled her nerves , the sight of the courting couples pressed against the wall was enough to bring her to the edge of tears again . |
| 11 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 12 | She found it vaguely shocking to hear mothers ask small children what they wanted and casually add the often quite arbitrary choice of the child to the pile of goods already in the trolley . |
| 13 | Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value . |
| 14 | The very opposite considerations lead to the success of businesses where intense customer contact is the basis of commerce . |
| 15 | Among such factions as may exist in a constituency party one is likely to be dominant , and to imagine that it would consent to the nomination of candidates not numbered among its adherents is scarcely realistic . |
| 16 | In view of the weight he had given to the idea of an aristocratic plot , Edward found his flat reaction to the name of Hamilton quite puzzling . |
| 17 | We shall return to the question of labels later , but for the moment we may note that the ESSE/L Project has clear implications for developing information-handling skills , even if in more narrow forms such as study or library skills . |
| 18 | The optimists dismiss China 's ballooning inflation and swelling money supply as mere potholes on its road to the level of prosperity already enjoyed by many of its East Asian neighbours . |
| 19 | Lenders are looking to the level of profits now seen rather than on the prospect of ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 20 | The examples given in Table 6.1 refer to the kind of experience well within the capacity potentially of everyone , and may be so much accepted as part of everyday life as to go unnoticed . |
| 21 | before we start getting up to the kind of figures where we can actually see a you know |
| 22 | It was a very nice house , bigger than Lewis 's own and in a more attractive neighbourhood , a neo-Georgian , double-fronted , detached house , altogether superior to the kind of thing most married men of twenty-nine could afford to live in . |
| 23 | It is significant that in the light of Roland Barthes 's S/Z ( 1970 ) , critics would subject even Balzac to the kind of analysis usually reserved for the more oppositional novels produced by the nouveau roman ( see Jefferson 1983 ) : poststructuralist and deconstructive readings could transform the ‘ readerly ’ into the ‘ writerly ’ . |
| 24 | Children were inefficient contributors to the kind of workforce now required and also a smaller proportion of the entire population than in the early years of the century . |
| 25 | Not only were we not interested in how socialism was realized , we did n't believe it would make the slightest difference to the position of women even if it were . |
| 26 | I 'd like to come back to the notion of self-misdiagnosis later , if I may , possibly at some future session . |
| 27 | By tethering the law to the notion of harm rather than peace and quiet , this definition places the law on a more stable footing in the world of facts , and reduces some of the areas of uncertainty that formerly surrounded it . |
| 28 | A third example , revealing yet another kind of subordination , takes us to the University of Paris where two fourteenth-century scholars , Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme , considered the possibility that the earth may rotate on its axis . |
| 29 | A tailor by trade , Doucet donated his outstanding collection to the University of Paris early this century . |
| 30 | He then went on to the University of Leipzig where he stayed for four years , except for an interlude in Berlin of eighteen months . |