Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] to [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 2 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 4 | And it was seldom his tunes failed to draw the odd penny from a shopkeeper 's pocket or , indeed , a bottle from the publican to sustain him to the next village . |
| 5 | Joshua Morris submitted himself to the first of the day 's body-searches . |
| 6 | This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book . |
| 7 | The haul up the corrie takes you to the first peak , Tom na Gruagaich , from where you must drop down and follow the ridge to the summit of Beinn Alligin , and although that 's where we packed it in , the walk could continue along a stunning ridge to cross the famous horns of Alligin , two pointy crags that stand like gateposts over a terrifying gully . |
| 8 | Just as we should expect , in Chlorohydra the algae transmit themselves to the next generation by means of the hydra 's egg . |
| 9 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 10 | The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital , with Pip tending him to the last . |
| 11 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 12 | A pleasant 15-minute walk brings you to the first two faces , which contain dozens of routes at VS to E1 . |
| 13 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 14 | Sale' s 16–6 win over Bedford hoists them to the second promotion slot . |
| 15 | In 1697 the presbytery being informed by the minister and ruling elder of Kilvarow that Janet NcKalman in Brockachach , Angus Brown in Scarabus , John McVurich in Achtawilling and Milcolm McIllvoil in Grundart doe use charms and divination The Presbytery appoint Allan McDugald their officer to summond them to the next dyet of the Presbytery at Kilchoman . |
| 16 | In 1697 the presbytery being informed by the minister and ruling elder of Kilvarow that Janet NcKalman in Brockachach , Angus Brown in Scarabus , John McVurich in Achtawilling and Milcolm McIllvoil in Grundart doe use charms and divination The Presbytery appoint Allan McDugald their officer to summond them to the next dyet of the Presbytery at Kilchoman . |
| 17 | But that , that is a Y equals something X to the tenth , so it 's it 's not going to have a gradient that requires Y equals something to the tenth . |