Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This episode leads me to the idea that at the physical level , there is a need for a philosophy to overcome disasters and fear , and also to help that majority of people who do not fulfil all their biological needs , and who have to sublimate them .
2 After the first week they should have grown used to the idea that on some evenings the pantry will be bare .
3 The patchwork quilt of administrative decision-making powers reinforced the idea that this was not a new system of law in the making and the formalism of normativism led to the idea that to the extent that we had administrative law , the subject consisted wholly or mainly of delegated legislation and administrative adjudication ; that is , the forms of administrative action classifiable in terms of a conception of a formal separation of powers .
4 Though the exact nature of the symbiosis between pastoralists and plains game has only recently become understood , administrators in close contact with the Masai could see that somehow the two did co-exist , and they took exception to the idea that in order for game to thrive the Masai would have to be removed .
5 He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself .
6 This pioneering work continues in Oxford and has led to the discovery that in sheep the heart-rate of the unborn lamb can be accurately measured ; it varies with the health of the mother , and in particular with the oxygen in the mother 's blood stream .
7 For that , she was entirely to blame , and his reaction to the discovery that beneath the hard shell of assumed glamour there lurked a conventional nature had been no more than she deserved .
8 But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction .
9 There is a second point stated to have been resolved , viz. : ‘ That payment of a lesser sum on the day can not be any satisfaction of the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum . ’
10 This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier .
11 They will have to prove to the Society that at least 15 minutes of their music has been played each year — fine enough for those who write lengthy pieces , but much more difficult for those who are at heart and in practice miniaturists .
12 The Script Fund is committed to the notion that without encouraging indigenous European stories of interest for its own audiences , our screens will continue to be overwhelmed by imported products and our national audio-visual industries will suffer .
13 I can evoke the wind at will and make it rustle the stiff papery blades of the bamboos and sing , through the comb-like leaves of the yew , as a worthy accompaniment to the voice that on that day and on all other days , even to the final silence , spoke words that had always the same meaning .
14 On the other hand , it leads to the admission that in so far as all linguistic theories are provisional and incomplete ( particularly in the sphere of semantics ) , even the best-informed linguistic analysis leaves a great deal to be desired .
15 What would you say to the criticism that by opening up new routes you simply add to the problem of over capacity , and so there 's less money for everyone ?
16 But since this is sometimes exceedingly difficult , he would be unwise to say exactly what sort of traces they should be ; for he would then be vulnerable to the criticism that in some capitalist formations these are simply not to be found .
17 Eddy v Niman is open to the criticism that in the terms of s.3(1) there was an assumption of the rights of the owner when he took the goods from the shelf and placed them in the shopping trolley .
18 The topic was the focus of a meeting held at Erice in Italy in March 1981 , and this book collects the papers on alternatives to the tokamaks that at present dominate fusion .
19 Already at the end of the Breshnev era — in the early 1980s — Russian sociologist Tatiana Zaslavskaia was saying in a report which filtered through to the West that despite its planned and ordered appearance the Soviet economy was in fact developing in a spontaneous fashion .
20 It is thanks to the emigres that in America and Europe ballet has been on the move all century ; in Russia itself , it has been left in a museum .
21 Even so , Finnis remains committed to the proposition that in determining the concept of property the legislator 's choice can not be regarded as wholly unfettered or arbitrary .
22 To get some idea of a possible solution to the problem that in potencies higher than the 12C none of the original starting material is likely to remain in the potency , we have to go back to some basic concepts of chemistry .
23 She becomes one with her instrument , lifting her head occasionally to smile at one or all of the band , or someone in the audience , but there 's a flow to the music that in my experience , is almost without parallel .
24 Mohammed Said was arrested by the army on July 7 while announcing to the press that in Madani 's absence he would be provisional leader of the FIS .
25 Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone .
26 It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter .
27 The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master .
28 We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender .
29 I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied .
30 " It is the consistency of a course of conduct which gives rise to the implication that in similar circumstances a similar contractual result will follow .
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