Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some moments before it occurred to any of them that it might well be Chris or the tardy boy from the bistro , harmlessly appealing for admission to his promised evening of jollity and sustenance . |
| 2 | LIFESPAN treats SPRs as objects to which some sort of response must be made . |
| 3 | LIFESPAN treats SPRs as objects to which some sort of response must be made . |
| 4 | I analyse the various types of experiential modalities , and in particular the manner in which objects are targeted , and present themselves as objects to our evidential consciousness . |
| 5 | Liability for damage to which this Agreement relates . |
| 6 | During the building of Cat Bank £3 was paid to Thomas Barrow for damage to his adjoining land , but it was Joseph Barrow who was paid £5 : 13s. : 9d. for land taken to widen the road from the Black Bull Inn to the fell gate — in all 273 yards at 5d . |
| 7 | Although the crisis passed without armed conflict , Nonconformists added a call for a permanent ‘ court ’ to settle disputes between nations to their long-standing demand for international arbitration to avoid war . |
| 8 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 9 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 10 | Proposals put forward by Maynard et al ( 1986 ) for GP budgets would overcome this problem , since GPs would act as gatekeepers to their own budgets . |
| 11 | There is surely a lesson here for us , as we turn to information technology for solutions to our own problems of communication . |
| 12 | To perform these pieces in the same circumstances as Byrd would have done round a table with friends is to take the quest for authenticity to its logical conclusion . |
| 13 | Unthinkingly , I added : " And I 'm just off home to our own street party " . |
| 14 | At the end of World War II , during the 1944/45 ‘ Winter of starvation ’ , the delivery of normal food such as bread to his young patients in his hospital was endangered . |
| 15 | He was taken to Our Lady 's Hospital in Cashel where he is being treated for burns to his upper body . |
| 16 | Our conventional distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ belong to this phase of the cultural market , but as responses to its internal difficulties . |
| 17 | In the case of one otherwise excellent book governors looking for reference to their own role in the index would have found nothing listed between ‘ Failure ’ and ‘ Handicap ’ ! |
| 18 | Her heart was full of benevolence to our own species , and most sensitively alive to suffering animals , and might in truth be called as a member of the society to which she belonged , the Animals ’ Friend . ’ |
| 19 | Not only was he shaken and upset by the accident , but , worse for him , his favourite race car suffered severe damage on a day when the Marlboro McLaren Honda team endured a series of setbacks to their own hopes . |
| 20 | Carolyn Pride , Virginia Pitman and Anne Bolton have remained pillars of support to their emotional friend . |
| 21 | The operation was carried out without negligence by the surgeon but the plaintiff was severely disabled as a result of damage to her spinal cord . |
| 22 | I understand they were persuaded to give it a further year 's grace in the hope of improvements to its organisational structure . |
| 23 | In 1734 , for example , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet , the sheriff-depute of Stirlingshire , pressed Lord Ilay to help him add the office of keeper of the register of sasines for Stirling and the stewartry of Menteith to his official holdings , for he found the sheriffship to be more trouble than it was worth . |
| 24 | This is the obedience of faith to which personal conviction leads . |
| 25 | Thus , the policy context , within which the redundancies took place and which older workers experienced in the labour market , often for the first time in twenty or more years , was one of unconcern if not of antagonism to their special needs . |
| 26 | In this respect , Romanyshyn 's work is a rich extension of Edmund Husserl 's critique of psychologism , the reduction of experience to its subjective aspect . |
| 27 | The multiplicity of groups to which each individual was obliged to belong placed further external restraints on his or her activities , and discouraged the expression of independent thought even among close friends or relatives . |
| 28 | Such is Macari 's sense of insult to his personal integrity that he once he once defended himself in an ominously dramatic tone . |
| 29 | Most humans , after all , have never successfully applied the scientific techniques of meditation to their own minds , including many of today 's ‘ gurus ’ . |
| 30 | May He grant more peace of mind to my dear husband ! ’ |