Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicit in Pecham 's letter of 1281 which outlined his hierocratic principles was the paternalist view that the church 's task was to affirm and support the king to meet his divinely imposed responsibilities to the Christian commonweal , the realm . |
| 2 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 3 | Can I , can I just draw attention to an error under paragraph one nine two , the date at the beginning of the second line should be first December , sorry first October , nineteen ninety three , not tenth of December . |
| 4 | Tinning , who finished sixth in last year 's BMW International in Munich , attributed his new found form to a changed mental attitude . |
| 5 | But I always give credit to the audience . |
| 6 | I avoided ice cubes , salads and water — I even cleaned my teeth in mineral water — and I still fell prey to a stomach bug . |
| 7 | I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment . |
| 8 | It is very expensive , and I often take sandwiches to the office . |
| 9 | I frequently heard reference to the " Mad Mullah " , whose forces still occupied half the country ; and I listened enthralled to descriptions by officers in the Somali Camel Corps of fights against his Dervishes . |
| 10 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 11 | After a mockery of a trial in London , at which he proudly denied that he was a traitor , ‘ since I never swore fealty to the English king ’ , he was hanged , drawn and quartered . |
| 12 | I can not answer for other members of the United Nations , but in our meeting last week I certainly drew attention to the necessity for ensuring that the United Nations had the right financial and material aid to complete the tasks that we have set it . |
| 13 | I recently moved jobs to a firm which encourages all staff to improve their qualifications . |
| 14 | ‘ My husband told me not to bring Mark to the Strand and if he 's out of the house he 's to stay in the buggy , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Either they operated some kind of taboo against such things , or else the technological relics of past civilisations were commonplace enough for them not to attach importance to a vessel which they must at least suspect to be in operable condition . |
| 16 | The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties . |
| 17 | There would have been no defence ( just as in Reg. v. Lawrence ) if the charge had been laid under section 15(1) and , as in Reg. v. Lawrence and the present case , it was the Crown 's resort to section 1(1) which alone gave rise to a legal problem . |
| 18 | In their excellently produced guide to the area the Ossett Chamber of Trade proudly point out : ‘ there are over one hundred clubs and societies which cater for a wide range of interests as well as a golf club , cricket club and two football clubs . ’ |
| 19 | Reporters handed their just completed text to the news editor , who edited the stories and telephoned any alterations in the programme to the newscaster : ‘ Scott , kill story four from Moscow — something better 's come in , so we are n't going to run it ’ … |
| 20 | His description of the galleries of Dent on either side of the narrow street is all that is left to remind us of their undoubted presence , ‘ I regret the loss of the grotesque and rude but picturesque old galleries , which once gave character to the streets ; and in some parts of them almost shut out the sight of the sky from those who travelled along the pavement . |
| 21 | From June onward warming through the ice set up circulation currents which gradually raised temperatures to a uniform 4°C throughout the water column ( Rigler , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | Durkheim said that simple societies were held together by ‘ mechanical solidarity through likeness ’ : people were united by the similarity in the labour and the general social roles they performed , which also gave rise to a homogeneous conscience collective . |
| 23 | An example of a system with such an architecture , which also implements solutions to the co-ordination problems mentioned above , is the SPAR system ( Shallow Processing Anaphor Resolver ; Carter 1987a , b ) . |
| 24 | Similarly in Britain , the early literature consisted of learned , academic books , which later gave way to the many systematic publications of the Geological Survey , only now superseded by research published in commercial scientific journals . |
| 25 | Similarly in Britain , the early literature consisted of learned , academic books , which later gave way to the many systematic publications of the Geological Survey , only now superseded by research published in commercial scientific journals . |
| 26 | This , from an administration which routinely blocks moves to a cleaner sea , which gives occasional wrist slaps to regular industrial polluters , which encourages the import of dangerous waste for processing , which has starved rail freight services and increased road haulage and which somehow thinks the answer to the giant car-park which masquerades as the M25 is to add yet more lanes in which to crawl . |
| 27 | But against the almost universal acceptance within the established political networks that nuclear energy was ‘ safe and sound ’ , there was a sense of powerlessness which inevitably drove people to the barricades . |
| 28 | Eventually it is intended to remove the ramp which presently gives access to the pattern room . |
| 29 | The Times owed its dramatically rising circulation to the partners ' innovations : in 1827 an Applegath & Cowper four-feeder machine was installed , and in 1846 two Applegath eight-feeder machines were used . |
| 30 | ‘ Political realism ’ received its most notorious restatement in the Renaissance period in Machiavelli 's The Prince , which emphatically calls attention to the role of force and fraud in gaining and governing states . |