Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely it is clear to anyone who might imagine that we are discussing an activity that could legitimately be called ’ joyriding ’ — from the incident that I have cited and from the horrors of the case in Liverpool , where a car ploughed into some children — just what a murderous evil that activity is . |
| 2 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment . |
| 4 | But the biblical material may simply not be amenable to what they would say . |
| 5 | ( The interpersonal function is something extra to which we shall return in Chapter 8 . |
| 6 | It is usually only fair to deny you a right to appeal if top management has already been closely concerned in the matter because of your senior status or because the business is so small that there is no one left to whom you can bring your complaint . |
| 7 | The connection is obvious to anyone who can put two and two together . |
| 8 | This was obvious to anyone who could think , ’ it says . |
| 9 | He said that if the lawyer had felt he was being unfair to him he could appeal to another court . |
| 10 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 11 | If God was good to them she 'd find no hide nor hair of Frank Arbuthnot . |
| 12 | And if you were I 'd be so good to you you 'd stay . |
| 13 | You should be equal to whatever you can evoke from your own impulses . |
| 14 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 15 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 16 | It would be a more serious objection if there were no real truth there at all to which we can hope our judgements may approximate . |
| 17 | PC SASPAC is therefore not useful to someone who will want to study low-level data for a large number of counties , though it is suitable for someone who is only interested in one or two and not fond of computers ! |
| 18 | For , hard on the heels of being asked to play in Jack Nicklaus 's Memorial Tournament in June , he has also been invited to play in the Benson & Hedges International at St Mellion , prior to which he will play a practice round with Jose Maria Olazabal , himself a former British Amateur champion . |
| 19 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 20 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 21 | Just as compelling production of incriminating Reports in the hand of the insured may lead to a climate for settlement on the part of the defender , so a Specification properly directed to the pursuer or those to whom he may have entrusted information ( other than his solicitors ) may assist in compelling him to be more realistic . |
| 22 | This sense of fair play might well be subdued by consideration of Mr Smith 's genocidal tax rate , at least among those to whom it will apply . |
| 23 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 24 | He went down to his car and down to his company stock and he says now what the money 's due to me you 'll get them in the post . |
| 25 | This phenomenon is entirely due to what I would call ‘ battery stamina ’ . |
| 26 | It suddenly seemed important to keep the conversation as close as possible to something you might have read in an old book . |
| 27 | If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals . |
| 28 | See , for example , the definition of a company in section 388(4) of the Act of 1986 to which I shall return . |
| 29 | she immediately undercuts herself : ( " And even if you say something shameful to me I shall blame you in no way at all " ) |
| 30 | Because we 're so used to them we may have relaxed our guard . |