Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In A.D. 313 the Roman Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan which gave to Christians the legal right to practise their religion openly on an equal basis with other religions and , after A.D. 325 , Christianity became the official religion of the empire . |
| 2 | Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise . |
| 3 | This prig , a dogmatic fundamentalist cocooned in a wealthy , reactionary , churchy upper-class , was a terrible hypocrite , who preached to others the old Catholic family virtues while being vicious to his wife and selectively hateful to his children . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the father we spoke to fears the worst … |
| 5 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |