Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 2 | In rug-making it refers to the contoured areas at the four right-angles of the field adjacent to the borders , usually only found in rugs employing a central medallion . |
| 3 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 4 | A readable combination of informed texts by known experts in the field — Calloway , Eric Turner , Malcolm Haslam etc. — the book is most useful for the attention it devotes to the later years of the shop 's production which have received much less attention in the literature than the celebrated Art Nouveau epoch . |
| 5 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 6 | This week she returns to the familiar territory of Perth Theatre as Comtesse de la Bruyere in JM Barrie 's comedy of manners , What Every Woman Knows . |
| 7 | Her mother , her doctor and her psychotherapist say that it is vital for her well-being that next month she goes to the same primary school as her friends . |
| 8 | An individual scientist 's decision will depend on the priority he gives to the various factors . |
| 9 | The structure of the fertilizer industry is divided into two , where subscript I refers to the four dominant firms and subscript 2 refers to the blenders , who act as importers of urea . |
| 10 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 11 | It is becoming less popular now because of the lack of support it gives to the lower back , although it does give more buoyancy than other types . |
| 12 | Pews will have to be removed but if furniture is arranged in an orderly , symmetrical fashion it responds to the architectural layout of the building . |
| 13 | The functionality of military expenditure resides for structuralists in the contribution it makes to the ideological hegemony of the capitalist system . |
| 14 | So that you can put a brand new car on at eh , A and by the time it gets to the other end it 's literally got rust problems . |
| 15 | He passes through it every time he rides to the old earth fort on the crest . |
| 16 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 17 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 18 | In strict point of fact it belongs to the National Health Service . |