Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
2 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
3 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
4 | It was held that the applicants lacked a sufficient interest in the matter because the Revenue had acted within the discretion permitted to it in the day-to-day administration of the tax system . |
5 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
6 | The Collector of Taxes in Glasgow in 1831 was one Blair , and the Loyal Reformers ' Gazette , a radical publication of the time , has a letter addressed to him in the following terms : |
7 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
8 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
9 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
10 | It came to him in the small hours . |
11 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
12 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
13 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
14 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
15 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |
16 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
17 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
18 | Furthermore , although the first poll-tax was sufficiently successful as a fiscal measure for it to be repeated in 1379 and 1381 , the hostility shown to it in the Great Revolt of the latter year led to its abandonment as a form of taxation ; not until the sixteenth century do further governmental records become available which can be employed to estimate the size of the national population with even a modicum of confidence . |
19 | I notice I refer to him in the past tense . |
20 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
21 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
22 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
23 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
24 | His words , in that elusively caressing accent , floated to her in the quiet little office . |
25 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
26 | Second , women and men have different responsibilities accorded to them in the domestic division of labour . |
27 | Further genetic progress on mastitis resistance is expected because the weighting gives to it in the Norwegian breeding programme has recently been more than doubled . |
28 | It might be suggested that it is only through the presence of the frame that we recognize the work of art for what it is , perceiving it and responding to it in the appropriate way . |
29 | It was as though all that had happened to her in the past year was suddenly before her , and all her own shortcomings into the bargain had landed on her in a heap , and were destroying her . |
30 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |