Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 2 | Every February , like thousands of others artists up and down the country , I have to decide which of my paintings to submit to the Royal Academy ; you are allowed to send in a maximum of three works for which you pay a fee of £9 each . |
| 3 | I wanted my children to go to the best school that I could find . |
| 4 | The procedure is that : LCH gives notice of its decision to consolidate to the relevant exchange , the selling member and the buying member ; the seller is charged with the conduct of LCH 's case against the buyer ; and the buyer is charged with LCH 's case against the seller ; copies of all pleadings being supplied to LCH and LCH retaining the right to submit its own arguments to the arbitrators . |
| 5 | The presbytery also instructed their clerk to write to the Prime Minister , John Major , the Secretary of State for Scotland , Ian Lang , the local Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , and the Member of the European Parliament , Winnie Ewing , asking for the law concerning child abuse to be reviewed as a matter of urgency . |
| 6 | Betty was here out of the kindness of her heart to minister to a wounded human being . |
| 7 | The DUP has added Bill Irwin to its ranks to add to the four sitting councillors . |
| 8 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 9 | The considerable locational advantages possessed by West Ham which gave rise to its extraordinary growth were to become fetters on the ability of its industry to adapt to a transformed economic environment in the twentieth century . |
| 10 | Since the agreements were contracts made under domestic law , it would be necessary to establish that they were internationalised contracts with international law as the proper law of the contract for their violation to amount to an international wrong . |
| 11 | For a moment she stood in the doorway , allowing her eyes to adjust to the gloomy interior . |
| 12 | And traditional handbag makers are injecting more fun and fashion into their designs to appeal to a wider audience , while maintaining the quality which makes them so distinctive . |
| 13 | Hedgerows existed in Saxon times and by the time Domesday was commissioned in 1086 the boundaries of parishes were so firmly fixed that William 's Norman officials were able to calculate within close limits , the exact area of thousands of settlements and their capacity to contribute to the royal exchequer ! |
| 14 | We and our European Community partners have repeatedly condemned the Burmese military junta for its failure to respond to the unequivocal outcome of the May 1990 elections , as well as its continuing disregard for human rights , notably demonstrated by the house arrest of 1991 Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 15 | The industry said it would be preferable to leave it for up to a hundred years to allow its radioactivity to decay to a manageable level . |
| 16 | If employees hear rumours of an impending move , they are likely to be very apprehensive about their future with the firm and worry about having to uproot themselves and their families to move to an unfamiliar area or take redundancy . |
| 17 | I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place , while he sees white men going where they please . |
| 18 | ‘ Look at the amount of playing and training the top rugby players do , ’ points out Barclay , who reckons that Scotland 's cricketers are now going to have to put the same amount of time and effort into their game to get to the top level . |
| 19 | Such a bias may be reinforced by the fact that those who are deaf in the 45–50 age range are less likely than their fellows to survive to the following age group ( because the deafness is related to some general malady or because hearing deficiency increases their risk of fatal accident ) . |
| 20 | Only a few days before his state 's 40th anniversary celebrations , he has been obliged to accept a deal permitting several thousand of its citizens to flee to the capitalist Federal Republic . |
| 21 | At the end of the day , the right keycard system choice will depend not only on technololgy , its ability to adapt to the specific application and how easy it is to use , but on the reliability and the pricing of the product , and just as important , on the suppliers and their ability to provide international service and support . |
| 22 | Stanley Mill has survived , largely because of its ability to adapt to the changing needs of the market . |
| 23 | He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike . |
| 24 | His willingness to talk to the French people on their level was received as a touching gesture rather than a condescending one . |
| 25 | As his English guest turned at the door of his study to bow to the Romanian head of state before leaving his presence , he saw that Ceauşescu was holding out his fingers in the shape of a gun pointing at the head of his own interpreter ! |
| 26 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 27 | On Sept. 6 Mobutu announced his intention to submit to a popular referendum an alternative draft constitution based on " a semi-presidential regime " embodying the " inviolability of the President " — a reference to the April 1990 transitional charter freeing the President from political and legislative control [ see p. 37366 ] . |
| 28 | On 24 September , in the Daily Mirror , ‘ Cassandra ’ urged his readers to listen to the comic capers of the Nazi propagandist . |
| 29 | From time to time he broke off his labours to return to the great court to look out for Tutilo returning . |
| 30 | Mr Kinnock underlined his determination to adhere to a prudent expenditure programme in an interview on the BBC World at One programme yesterday . |