Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to [pers pn] in the " in BNC.

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1 As the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out , those funds are of importance to us in the provision of our capital infrastructure , although they are not totally significant .
2 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 .
3 Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French .
4 There was nothing of interest to her in the present conversation except as a means of promoting their intimacy and retaining his arm around her waist .
5 But why did the theories of feminism develop in response to them in the 1960s and not , say , in the 1930s when novelists cast an equally critical eye over women 's lives ?
6 Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future .
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