Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be easier for them to talk to a fellow inmate . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Labelling theory ’ claims ( and is supported by research studies such as those just mentioned ) that catching and punishing offenders ‘ labels ’ and stigmatizes them as criminals , and that this process can in various ways make it more difficult for them to conform to a law-abiding life in future . |
| 3 | Within a comprehensive school it is perfectly possible for children to be ambitious and competitive , for them to submit to a proper discipline , one imposed both by their teachers , and by the rigours of the subject itself that they are studying . |
| 4 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 5 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 6 | There are two small eyes with a single nostril between them leading to a blind sac , and on either side of the neck a row of gill slits . |
| 7 | The rest of us adjourned to a nearby hostelry for some refreshments ! |
| 8 | And with him going to a different school . |
| 9 | Ballesteros 's 69 was more of a scramble , particularly over the closing holes , but he got away with it thanks to a short game which has been very consistent both this week and last . |
| 10 | The remarkable quality of the New Hall collection , a voluntary assembly of donated works , and the likewise extraordinary disproportion of successful women artists in the final selection of the New Contemporaries this year seem to me to point to a crucial shift that is happening in symbolic utterance and representation : women 's bodies , women 's nature have long been ‘ good to think with ’ , their flesh has served artists as founts of meaning , allegorical and personal . |
| 11 | Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building . |
| 12 | Listening to Friends on the album , I was waiting for it to modulate to a minor key in the middle … |
| 13 | Tanberg had loaded a thin palladium wire with deuterium which that night he intended to connect to a high voltage and then discharge the electricity through it leading to a sudden increase in pressure and temperature . |
| 14 | Because the widespread poverty of older women and the penury experienced by some groups among them derive to a considerable extent from the operation of social and economic policies within patriarchal capitalism , any major change in their status rests on the development of alternative policies . |