Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I was eleven I moved to secondary school , Henry Compton in Fulham . |
2 | It is this which leads to low levels of profitability and to a lack of incentive to undertake new investment . |
3 | The whole issue was then revived by a consultation paper published by the government in February 1985 which led to further legislation . |
4 | This she did to good effect because she came to know French , German , Italian , and Latin well and to read Spanish , Norwegian , Danish , Welsh , and Early English . |
5 | In Act I Scene V she calls to evil spirits , showing that she realises human feelings must be obliterated in the fight for power . |
6 | gesture , gesture and strategy , this we need to this morning . |
7 | Earlier chapters have drawn out some of the consequences of this peculiarity ; this one turns to procedural matters , and to the way in which the involvement of third parties , once an obstacle to the legal recognition of trusts , was turned into a virtue and one of their greatest strengths in the legal enforcement of testamentary dispositions . |
8 | So it would seem that children may assist one parent to care for the other who might otherwise go into a home , but apart from this they have to residential homes for some while caring for and thus avoiding the admission of others , and that these two influences cancel each other out in the statistics . |
9 | Once you 've worked out your policy , you should make it clear it applies to all staff , at all levels , and you should be prepared to use it fairly and consistently . |
10 | After struggling free he went to nearby Bassetlaw Hospital where doctors closed the quarter-inch deep gash . |
11 | In 1985 he moved to Corporate Finance as Group management accountant . |
12 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
13 | If the same set of appearances could be saved by each mathematical model , then why should one be privileged as that which corresponded to physical reality ? |
14 | Montagu welcomed dissent in India as a sign of blossoming political maturity , and distinguished confidently between legitimate and illegitimate unrest — the latter being that which had for its object ‘ Home Rule ’ , the former that which aspired to political responsibility to the degree the British saw fit to give it . |
15 | I I one 's always got to er balance that against for example Policy I eight which refers to small scale industrial development appropriate normally permitted in rural settlements . |
16 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
17 | But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen . |
18 | In the first major labour conflict of Menem 's administration , bus drivers began a strike in Buenos Aires on Nov. 7 which spread to other cities on Nov. 8 . |
19 | The use of threats is at best an uncertain course leading to managed trade — and at worst a dangerous one leading to higher tariffs . |
20 | that , that er that you respond to that letter from him Trevor and say |
21 | No doubt there are other ways to criticize the legal opera ; these I leave to other critics . |
22 | In discussing any of these we revert to foolish solecisms : ‘ Rattle 's Stravinsky ’ or ‘ Karajan 's Missa Solennis ’ , or of ‘ seeing Giulini conduct Verdi ’ . |
23 | They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ? |
24 | These range from whether the phenomenon is a purely subjective one tied to cultural self images ( post modernism , consumerism ? ) or an objective and subjective one for part of the population part of the time , ie : women , parents , to a question of ‘ epoch ’ ( the '80s ? ) . |
25 | At eleven we went to different schools . |
26 | I , I was just going to say that the county surveyor said that everything comes to this committee before anything else happens , but of course it goes to the press before it comes to this committee and that shows with , with the |
27 | I thought I was giving you more than that , ee , first of all I went to fifteen percent , you said |
28 | I have n't had much chance to go shopping but I always make sure I get to two places — one called Garage and another called Hyper Hyper . |
29 | ‘ To make sure you get to this dinner tonight . ’ |
30 | The call to forgiveness is a priority which needs constant attention , partly because in marriage the closer you get to each other the greater will be the likelihood of hurt . |