Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Might there not be a case for putting the initial interview in the hands of an educational psychologist skilled in eliciting a history without being committed to what the social workers revealingly call ‘ disclosure ’ ? ' , he suggested . |
| 2 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 3 | A man , back from Spain , addresses her in tones that approximate to what the Independent thought was the ‘ well-educated voice ’ , and to what the Guardian thought was the ‘ assured accent ’ , transmitted by the Intelligence chief responsible for the shooting of the IRA bombers in Gibraltar which preceded the arrival of the novel . |
| 4 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 5 | Please confirm that the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter . |
| 6 | This will be achieved by including in the offer letter a clause similar to that set out below : Please confirm your acceptance of the above offer by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter within the next seven days . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 8 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 9 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 10 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 11 | This year the IRA has killed two people in Belfast compared to none the previous year . |
| 12 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |
| 13 | According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns . |
| 14 | One prima facie plausible answer is provided by another theory , according to which the specific feature that marks off proper names from descriptions should be sought not in any " logical simplicity " but rather in the " rigidity of their designation " . |
| 15 | An early version of the alternative doctrine polygeny , according to which the global category consists of a set of quite separate races of quite distinct historical origin and wholly different psychological attributes was advanced by Paracelsus in 1520 , but of much greater significance for the history of anthropology is the fact that , during a critical period between 1 850 and 1 870 , polygeny was the dominant orthodoxy in scientific circles throughout Europe and America . |
| 16 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 17 | He himself remarks that considerations based on problem-solving ability are ‘ neither individually nor collectively compelling ’ as far as the relative merits of competing paradigms are concerned , and that ‘ aesthetic considerations ( according to which the new theory is said to be ‘ neater ’ , ‘ more suitable ’ or ‘ simpler ’ than the old ) can sometimes be decisive ’ . |
| 18 | It was this Council , consisting of members nominated by the Secretary of State himself , who issued the National Criteria according to which the new examination should be conducted , and who continue to approve all the particular subject criteria , which must be finally approved by the Secretary of State . |
| 19 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 20 | The following case study is unusual because Charlotte ( not her real name ) had not revealed to me the actual reason why she felt the need for aromatherapy . |
| 21 | We do n't have to get to a certain stage of sinlessness , before God will give to us the Holy Spirit . |
| 22 | The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed . |
| 23 | With that side of his face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing . |
| 24 | Reveal to me the great secret . |
| 25 | Before they left I could not forbear to draw Gillian closer and impart to her the glittering counsel that wearing 501s with trainers was frankly un désastre and that I was amazed she had walked the streets to my apartment in broad daylight and escaped pillory . |
| 26 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 27 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 28 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 29 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 30 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |