Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is no life , if you dare not test yourself , if you dare not feel free to live it to the full . |
| 2 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 3 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |
| 4 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 5 | The Romans , imitating the Greeks of Asia Minor and , nearer home , the Etruscans , thought a grid should have precise right angles , and so the rectangle of streets sits awkwardly in the bend of the river and one has to tack this way and that to cross it to the medieval cathedral and the Roman bridge . |
| 6 | Mr. Newman also sought to invoke section 11(3) of the Act of 1989 , which confers upon the High Court jurisdiction to order a person 's discharge if , having regard to certain matters specified in the subsection , it would be unjust or oppressive to return him to a foreign state . |
| 7 | Finding s okay so there was a little bit of it was a little bit awkward to get it to the nearest degree there . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is not possible to reduce it to a single definition , but for the purpose of this passage I will concentrate on the individual learner . |
| 9 | She was reluctant to lose him to the other side . |
| 10 | You may be able to keep us to the straight and narrow . |
| 11 | Your son 's teacher should be able to refer him to an educational psychologist who 'll try to find out why he acts as he does , and how he can be helped . |
| 12 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 13 | Pots of money and willing at first to squire her to the latest ‘ in ’ restaurants and nightspots , charity balls , Henley , Ascot , the whole shebang . ’ |
| 14 | His story had been absorbing and very revealing ; it was difficult to relate it to the other , more menacing side of him . |
| 15 | They reckon they 've had enough and theywant to leave it to the younger ones.0 |
| 16 | Health expenditure increased , but not by enough to lift us to a comparable position with our main industrial competitors . |
| 17 | The turbo-charged version of Renault 's familiar 1,870 cc diesel engine produces 93 bhp ( the non-turbo is 65 bhp ) , sufficent to propel it to a claimed top speed of 114 mph , yet return between 45 and 50 mpg . |
| 18 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 19 | Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings . |
| 20 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |
| 21 | For example , if a trade is wrongly allocated , it may be necessary to transfer it to the correct account . |
| 22 | I was obliged to assist him to the easy chair towards the window , so that he could sit upright , for his coughing was agonising at times . |
| 23 | But we are not simply judges or police officials , we are also human beings , and as human beings we sympathize deeply and sincerely with the terrible situation in which the Miletti family find themselves , and wish to do everything possible to bring it to a swift and satisfactory conclusion . |
| 24 | Keynes 's adherence to the Liberal party in the 1920s is a matter of record , and historians of Liberalism have been eager to assimilate him to the great tradition . |
| 25 | If the examiner has exercised his fancy by using fictitious names , like Tomkins , you are perfectly entitled to abbreviate them to the initial letter — unless , of course , two parties in the same problem have the same initial letter . |