Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To talk of the rights of the nation was one thing , to descend to the streets and appeal to the mob was unthinkable to magistrates whose obsessive concern was the preservation of order . |
| 2 | The Junkers , by leading the German unification , were able to enshrine their own position . |
| 3 | He may also have hoped that by supporting a revolution with which the Chinese felt no small degree of identification , he would be able to outmanoeuvre his Maoist critics . |
| 4 | William III was , as usual , absent on the Continent and the forces which Queen Mary had at her disposal to repel James were far fewer than those available to James himself five years before . |
| 5 | Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin ; Tolkien rejected it on the grounds that public virtue can not be mechanised or formulated . |
| 6 | Horne hit a fine pass wide to Harper whose pinpoint cross was powered home by the soaring Rideout from 15 yards . |
| 7 | Effective safeguards could be built in to prevent the inflationary dangers inherent in parallel currency systems , particularly in that the central banks of all member states would be obliged to repurchase their own currencies from the EMF for hard currencies . |
| 8 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 9 | She has four arms , making her an inescapable foe — one hand holds a sword , one a human head , one is raised in a gesture of peace to trick the unwary , and the other forms a claw , ready to pinion its next victim . |
| 10 | Sheridan Lorrimore was telling a long-suffering good-natured couple all about his prowess at ice hockey and Xanthe , pouting and put out at having been temporarily deserted by Mrs Young , had ended up next to Giles-the-murderer whose real-life preference , I 'd gathered , was for boys . |