Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] to [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 2 | As such , no one would deny the unfairness and the imbalance in the system , and the need to reintroduce to it the fundamental legal precept of justice . |
| 3 | We have been all around Britain to put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents were too afraid to ask . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 5 | 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 . |