Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
| 2 | A task force within BCCI was set up to investigate : on the basis of its report , PW told the BCCI directors that it could not sign the 1989 accounts because of a number of uncertainties , including increasing CCAH loans , an exposure of $700m to the Gulf Group , and ‘ certain accounting transactions principally booked in Cayman and other offshore centres ’ that ‘ have been either false or deceitful ’ . |
| 3 | Twenty mls of whole blood was also collected into empty vacutainers before and at the end of the one month trial period for analysis of serum vitamins , as an assessment of compliance to the supplementation . |
| 4 | Some people , after an experience of regression to a Past life , are absolutely convinced in their own minds that it was a genuine recollection of a time when they have lived before . |
| 5 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 6 | In Malette v. Shulman , 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 a Canadian court upheld an award of $20,000 to a patient who had been given a blood transfusion in order to save her life but against her known wishes . |
| 7 | An openness of mind to the European religious reaction against liberal Protestantism , represented especially by Karl Barth . |
| 8 | Reports of ‘ untoward occurrences ’ — anything from an allegation of assault to a staff member having a cold — were not going directly to Mr Thomson , who was legally bound to report them to social services within 24 hours . |
| 9 | The Council fathers decisively rejected Protestant doctrines on central issues such as justification , the presence of Christ in the Eucharist and sacramental efficacy , and promulgated a series of decrees on purgatory , the veneration of relics , images and saints , and indulgences — almost , it seems , as an act of defiance to the reformers who had denied them . |
| 10 | The Liberals chartered the GTP specifically as an act of defiance to the Canadian Conservative party and its allies on the CPR . |
| 11 | At her son 's funeral she refused to cry in an act of defiance to the IRA . |
| 12 | Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 13 | He began to recite an act of resignation to the Divine Will . |
| 14 | ‘ … is a sign that the parishioners have a great affection for their church , and an act of commitment to the service of Almighty God , to whose honour and glory St Peter 's Church was built and maintained . ’ |
| 15 | Scepticism and an attitude of indifference to the prospect of final extinction have proved , as a matter of practical experience , no adequate substitute for the doctrine of immortality , however illusory one may hold it to be . |
| 16 | The all-new Debut brings an unheard-of-level of appointment to an affordable cooker ; there 's even a choice of colours . |
| 17 | Although Rover had reported an operating profit of £27 million for 1987 , after years of heavy losses , covered by government handouts , the chances of privatising the company by an issue of shares to the public still seemed remote . |
| 18 | would be disclosed on an investigation of title to the properties ; or |
| 19 | The person who is terrified of storms , while restraining him or herself from hiding in the hall cupboard , will still give off an aura of anxiety to a child who will then come automatically to associate fear with the sound of thunder . |
| 20 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 21 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 22 | There is a place for the social PTA ‘ faggots and peas evening ’ or ten pin bowling at the George and Dragon , though it needs to be understood by all that attendance by staff at such social evenings is purely a matter of personal choice and not to be taken as an indicator of loyalty to the school . |
| 23 | It is considered more satisfactory to adhere to the conventional conveyancing procedure so that the husband 's solicitors will submit an epitome of title to the wife 's solicitors or ( in the case of registered land ) office copy entries of the registered title . |
| 24 | Patricia sensed , with some satisfaction , that she was an object of curiosity to the cinema attendants . |
| 25 | Although the leader of the Union Defence League in succession to Walter Long , he shared Law 's belief in the inevitability of ultimate compromise , and this made him , like Law , an object of suspicion to the diehard Irish Unionists . |
| 26 | But you appear not to have noticed a few glaring facts like that women in general do n't rape men , or beat them up , or design weapons or make the laws and enforce them or hold enough jobs of influence and authority to make an iota of difference to the way this bloody patriarchal shit-heap is run . ’ |
| 27 | The Vatican is also lending an exhibition of manuscripts to the Library of Congress in Washington 8 January-30 April 1993 . |
| 28 | An attempt has been made by Nightingale to show that Rochester was the centre from which an area of land to the north had been centuriated on the regular basis of 20 by 20 actus squares . |
| 29 | Save an area of memory to a file . |
| 30 | On an area of heath to the south , we found the scented bog myrtle and , on a newly constructed bank , grew the very rare ten violet . |