Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( To Nick [ disguised as a girl ] ) Suppose I made an indecent suggestion to you ? |
| 2 | There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia . |
| 3 | And to make matters worse I took an instant dislike to the wife . |
| 4 | For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee . |
| 5 | He himself made an extended visit to the West at the outset of his reign and on his return he created consternation — and a legend — by his impatience to change the face of Russia . |
| 6 | Four British players — Sally Prosser , Janet Soulsby , Helen Wadsworth and Lora Fairclough — are the main challengers for the order of merit title , which offers an expenses-paid invitation to the $1.5 million Asahi Cup in Japan in September and complimentary flights on next year 's Asian Circuit . |
| 7 | It was run by Alfred Rozelaar Green who , having lived and worked in Paris before the war , wanted to imitate in London the French free academy system which offers an open house to anyone wishing to draw , paint or sculpt for as many or as few sessions as they wish . |
| 8 | Also the subject of slugs , he felt , was not one which made an easy stepping-stone to such delicate matters as he himself had in mind . |
| 9 | I deliberately chose the hydrangeas for their pointed petals , which made an interesting contrast to the very rounded shapes of the yellow potentillas and the roses . |
| 10 | The move is much more towards learning by and from personal experience , not just in nursing , but from everyday life , from contact with others and from previous employment , anything which adds an extra dimension to the way we perceive problems and set about dealing with them . |
| 11 | A producer is defined by s. 1(2) as : ( i ) the manufacturer ( ii ) the person who wins or abstracts products ( iii ) the person who carries out an industrial or other process which adds an essential characteristic to a product which has not been won , abstracted or manufactured . |
| 12 | Which adds an interesting edge to it , I suppose . |
| 13 | Even if you do n't go into consumer public relations which has an immediate relationship to selling , you will get to know the public as a consumer , get to understand how business is done , what product selling points are all about , and finally , learn how to sell yourself . |
| 14 | Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine , not renowned as a shrinking violet , entered Downing Street from the bottom end , took one look at the array of pressmen and crept into No 12 , which has an interior walkway to No 10 . |
| 15 | Another organic textbook is Introduction to Organic Chemistry by Andrew Streitwieser Jr and Clayton Heathcock ( Collier Macmillan , 2nd ed 1981 ) which has an excellent approach to spectroscopy . |
| 16 | The potential of the method is , however , illustrated by experiments undertaken on a mutant variety of tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ) , which has an inbred resistance to the antibiotic streptomycin , and petunia ( Petunia hybrida ) . |
| 17 | The church was built for the adjacent Ursuline convent which has an attractive courtyard to the right of the church . |
| 18 | Hiroshima was originally written for the New Yorker magazine , which devoted an entire issue to it in 1946 . |
| 19 | The three abortion cases , which may be reached in December , are unlikely to lead to a clean reversal of Roe v Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which granted an absolute right to abortion in the first three months of pregnancy and an almost unrestricted right in the next three . |
| 20 | The design of the dress robbed me of breasts but revealed white angular shoulders which added an extra foot to my thin white arms . |
| 21 | THE Consumers ' Association has complained to the Office of Fair Trading about building societies which charge an additional fee to borrowers who choose their own buildings insurance policy . |
| 22 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 23 | Although LEAs have sometimes held on to powers at the centre which prevented decisions being made quickly and flexibly , they did provide an education service which allowed an effective response to diversity and need . |
| 24 | Ciskei was one of 10 " homelands " or bantustans created under the apartheid regime ; four of these , including Ciskei , had accepted a nominal independence from South Africa which no other country had recognized , but which constituted an additional obstacle to the transition to a post-apartheid South Africa . |
| 25 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 26 | The looseness of the syntax was a familiar symptom enough , but coupled with the handwriting it took on a more sinister light , for the writing was one of those faint , regular , carefully-looped hands which indicate an underlying antipathy to the written word . |
| 27 | They can not have teachers ready to respond to the rapidly changing social milieu ( the educational needs context ) which requires an extended approach to professionality , and at the same time expect to manage them in a modified bureaucracy which is predicated upon a restricted view . |
| 28 | ‘ People are looking for something different , ’ said Steve , a chiropodist , which seems an ideal profession to be indulging in lots of ballroom dancing , ‘ but it has to be of good quality . ’ |
| 29 | The idea that people operate ‘ strategies ’ in which they assess a range of options , and act to maximize their opportunities , has become an increasingly important insight in historical work on the family , and one which accords an active role to human beings in constructing their own lives , rather than seeing individuals at the mercy of large scale social forces ( Morgan , 1985 , p. 175 ) . |
| 30 | It was the heavy fall of ash from the eruption which brought an abrupt end to the town of Pompeii . |