Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Union also reacted fiercely to the attacks on Younger by coalitionist ministers , most of all Birkenhead 's description of him as " the cabin boy " and Lloyd George 's of " a second-class brewer " . |
| 2 | It was also unduly limited in the kind of explanations it offered of the course of events , explanations which appealed overmuch to the actions and dispositions of individuals , stringing them together into a complex story of aims and intrigues . |
| 3 | We were fascinated by the lither , graceful women , effortlessly balancing judge , beautiful towers of fruit on their heads , which they took daily to the temples for blessing . |
| 4 | Maybe partners will come to feel that schools will respond better to the aims of education set out in the 1988 Education Act if they are not tied to curricula based on the traditional subjects alone . |
| 5 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 6 | Respondents commented on the greater sense of ownership of the new courses , of opportunities to tailor the courses better to the needs of local candidates and employers , and of greater flexibility , particularly in assessment arrangements . |
| 7 | As they wandered happily through the sun dappled splendour of the woods , Yanto turned suddenly to the girls . |
| 8 | ‘ The semaphore flags ! ’ she cried suddenly to the Brownies . |
| 9 | I sometimes wonder , though , whether they speak much to the occupants of the Labour Front Bench because I see the 1990s as the decade of the north-east and the north-west . |
| 10 | The accurate hitting of targets in September owes much to the decisions made as to whether or not to confirm offers to those who have not quite met the conditions , a process strongly influenced by estimates ( based on past experience ) of the likely take up by those that have . |
| 11 | This critical division , between the " basic " skill of the trade ( on which many male compositors also spent most of their time ) and the " more skilled " processes , was to persist after the " learning " stage , and was much to the employers " advantage . |
| 12 | The sudden , sharp increase in cross-Atlantic skiing traffic owes much to the claims of some American resorts that they can guarantee snow cover , even if as much as 75 per cent of it may be man-made . |
| 13 | Pittsburgh has a strong neighbourhood heritage and its Rand McNally citation as ‘ most livable city in the USA ’ in 1985 owed much to the feelings of intimacy residents felt towards their neighbourhood . |
| 14 | Our evaluation therefore owes much to the assumptions , concepts and procedures of the " new sociology of education " of the early seventies , inspired as it was by the social phenomenology of Alfred Schutz ( 1964 ) and Berger and Luckmann ( 1967 ) , and the Symbolic Interactionism of G H Mead ( 1934 ) and Erving Goffman ( 1959 ) . |
| 15 | Much to the artists ' chagrin . |
| 16 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 17 | This gripping drama owes much to the shades of menace hinted at in Caffrey 's Man , and the semi-hysterical flutterings of O'Mahoney 's King , who has long since toppled from his throne . |
| 18 | The results of this first phase were , much to the researchers ' surprise , that productivity increased no matter how much the lighting was varied . |
| 19 | In fact , the Empire was dissolved after the First World War into several new nations , though this was probably due as much to the policies of the victorious nation states as to the strength of indigenous nationalist movements . |
| 20 | Much to the scientists ' surprise , summer conditions left visible annual strata . |
| 21 | The particularly rapid growth of Norman Broadbent owes much to the partners ' skill and luck in their sense of timing in the formation of the company ; it is unlikely that this could now be repeated quite so successfully . |
| 22 | It has its origins in formal logic , and owes much to the writings of Aristotle and Frege . |
| 23 | A reference to British Steel was something the punters would relate to , much to the dealers ' amusement . |
| 24 | Williamson 's romanticism and nature worship , on a rather lower level of theoretical conceptualisation , was to owe much to the books of Richard Jefferies , in particular the sunlight imagery of much of his work . |
| 25 | The pond is covered with green mesh shading , but the blanket weed still multiplies , clinging stubbornly to the sides and massing the bottom . |
| 26 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 27 | There are even those who look back nostalgically to the days when people might leave school at 11 , when the educated classes were distinct from the uneducated . |
| 28 | She squirmed with pain , but was helpless in the grip of the renewing forest , and she felt her body entered , a single motion that never stopped , just filled her , swelled out , tearing her apart inside , fingers of pain , shards of agony , curling snakes of pressure that reached inside to the tips of her toes , her fingers , up her spine and round her ribs , rising higher , filling her stomach , then her lungs , then her throat . |
| 29 | However , if there is no free charge in the space between the conductors , and strictly for two-dimensional problems , there is a method to which the adjective " general " might be attached , a method that provides plenty of answers but not necessarily to the questions asked . |
| 30 | Indirect Rule was not , as was claimed at the time , just a pragmatic response to circumstances , or a way of breaking the natives in gently to the rigours of civilized living . |