Example sentences of "[noun] to [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter we witness Rose being guided by the Fool towards Pagoda-land , where she finds the salamander , then back to the court where her kindness to both the salamander and her persecuted old father is rewarded by the transformation of the Prince to his real shape and his victory over all contenders to win Rose , rescue her father and banish Epine . |
| 2 | Reduce sugary snacks to twice a day . |
| 3 | Stirling sent a blistering series of signals to both the Eighth Army and MEHQ which seem to have had some effect . |
| 4 | It 's not going to help anyone , and will be a considerable loss to both the scientific and naval communities , if you three gentlemen elect for self-immolation . |
| 5 | Working in the WTN news room for the past four years had opened my eyes to how the media worked . |
| 6 | At a press conference after the meeting , Antall emphasised that the declaration did not signal the birth of a new organization in opposition to either the Warsaw Pact or COMECON . |
| 7 | Moderator I 'm going to ask the general assembly to turn their mind to quite a different subject now . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom is a signatory to both the Convention ( 1951 ) and the Covenant ( 1976 ) although neither has been incorporated into our domestic law . |
| 9 | When he drew back to skim a line of kisses down the slender column of her neck to where a pulse was beating in a frenzied rhythm she moaned softly , glorying in the feel of his mouth on her skin . |
| 10 | Diagrams for development are being selected for their usefulness to both the teaching-learning process and course assessment requirements . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 12 | In response to the news coverage of the disorder , she sent telegrams to both the BBC and the ITA asking them to ‘ please consider whether the massive television coverage of acts of vandalism and violence is contributing to the spread of the riots ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Nor I , ’ she countered , in a ridiculous attempt to even the score . |
| 14 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 15 | Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high . |
| 16 | The despatch told how the Prussian garrison at Charleroi was falling back , not on Brussels , but north-east to where the main Prussian army was assembling . |
| 17 | In addition to acting as local pilot to some of the remoter islands during our stay , there were trips by car to all the more interesting spots on shore such as the old village of Skara Brae , the Churchill Barrier and the Italian Chapel . |
| 18 | Accordingly , in allocating each of the matched subjects to either the control or to the experimental group , and to ensure that there is no surreptitious influence determining this allocation , the researcher randomly allocates one of each matched pair of subjects to one or the other group . |
| 19 | That position is to be contrasted with what has happened in New Zealand and Australia ( which have relaxed the rule to approximately the extent that I favour ) : there is no evidence of any complaints of this nature coming from those countries . |
| 20 | Due to pressure on places the Faculties of Arts , Law , Medicine and Social Sciences are able to offer deferred entry to only a small proportion of applicants . |
| 21 | I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough . |
| 22 | The sources also reacted favourably to a statement published yesterday by the erstwhile Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to around a third of a new cabinet . |
| 23 | Opposition sources reacted favourably to a statement by the former Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to about a third of the cabinet seats . |
| 24 | Under his direction , the staff made their way with all speed to where the horse was trapped . |
| 25 | Together these two concepts give the key to both the sculpture and the inspiration for its bold commission by The Royal Bank of Scotland through the good offices of a non-executive director , Angus Grossart . |
| 26 | They are both trusted men and the key to both the gallery door and another for Sir Ralph 's chamber hang on a hook beside them . |
| 27 | Well after a while the bricks got hot enough that you could just adjust the valve to where the stove would get almost cherry red and it was a very nice fire . |
| 28 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 29 | On Jan. 24 , 1990 , a law was passed in the Sejm allowing the Constitutional Tribunal to grant equal privileges to both the Senate and the Sejm . |
| 30 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |