Example sentences of "[noun] to [pron] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them .
2 She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days .
3 Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place .
4 He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place .
5 The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli .
6 None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance .
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