Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureaucrats ' control of appointments in all walks of life increases the dependence of their clients and followers on them for access to social wealth , thereby reinforcing their power base . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps it had tried to reveal itself in response to some wish or command that was felt in the room ’ , thinks Frodo , and he is clearly right . |
| 3 | The very concentration of attention on female breasts seemed to swell them with pride to melon-like proportion — or disproportion , for they would flatten and disappear just as mysteriously ten years later . |
| 4 | Labour will establish a network of one-stop advice centres providing them with access to high-quality specialist assistance . |
| 5 | I heard him mention something about organs to another guest so I put my oar in and started such a nice conversation . |
| 6 | These are lectures lecture courses which happen on one day and which are really designed to cover something of interest to sixth form science teachers , usually sixth form physics teachers . |
| 7 | The bridle in this case is a lateral one with lines to either side of the central pick-up point , and all at the very leading edge of the kite which then flies much like a glider on its towline . |
| 8 | ‘ Everything from payrolls to personal security , ’ Maxham said . |
| 9 | Some 60 bills are now clogging parliament on everything from privatisation to local government , with more on the way . |
| 10 | Our handsome first edition covers everything from suits to casual wear . |
| 11 | Hunting is the favourite pastime ; at the start of the season , high schools close as whole families go off in pursuit of everything from squirrels to wild boar . |
| 12 | Another , on their economic importance , shows how male fern has been used as a cure for worms or as a love philtre , how clubmosses provide homoeopathic treatments for everything from hiccups to pre-menstrual tension , and how the mosquito fern plays a vital role in rice production . |
| 13 | This , as practised by ordinary mortals rather than professional scribes , can cover everything from neatness to wild illegibility — much as handwriting does today among our nearest and dearest . |
| 14 | It was to escape boredom and the frustration of having no one to talk to all day but children . |
| 15 | Chris Morrison , prosecuting , said Howe and three others hired the taxi to take them from Sedgefield to Great Stainton . |
| 16 | if I can er start first of all with the pleadings bundle and with the statement of claim which erm er sets out all the er upon which the plaintiffs and your Lordship will see from paragraph one that this claims relate to the purchase by the plaintiff of a lease of a restaurant and wine bar business at and er it is alleged that the defendants were retained by the plaintiffs to advise them in relation to that transaction in early September of nineteen eighty five and that the contract between them er contained the usual implied required for the defendant to exercise or deal with the proper and care in relation to their conduct of the transaction and er to the advice given to the plaintiffs throughout . |
| 17 | What about a chess-playing machine , programmed to examine the board and then ‘ imagine ’ thousands of possible moves and evaluate them in relation to each other ? |
| 18 | As an illustration of what we are trying to unearth , let's go back to Muriel 's situation again , and think of her in relation to this exercise . |
| 19 | They may detain the suspect for 24 hours ( extendable by the prosecutor to 48 hours ) and question him without access to legal advice or notification of his right to maintain silence . |
| 20 | Follow rough road to tarmac road , turn right onto it for 400yds to Cold Harbour and turn left for about half a mile until you reach the B3311 . |
| 21 | We lack the information necessary to relate it with confidence to specific plate tectonic events , as is possible for the Cretaceous , but the Cambrian sea-level rise might well have been a consequence of opening of the Iapetus Ocean , with the growth of a spreading ridge ( Anderton , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 22 | From the producers ' point of view , it is the single most sought after ‘ grape variety ’ in the world , and right from Britain to Chile and New Zealand ( and even India ! ) more and more vineyards are being planted with it in preference to any other . |
| 23 | How could she and Bob even put it in words to each other ? |
| 24 | First because in Prisoner desire and fantasy seem transformed into nonsublimated social identification ; as he puts it in relation to one group of black students in America , ‘ while I never desired any particular person , I was all desire for the group as a whole . |
| 25 | … the extent to which Leapor 's writing represents female eroticism as transgressive , situates it in relation to sapphic textuality , and exposes the necessary construction of such alternative desires within as well as against the very terms of heterosexual propriety from which they are generated |
| 26 | reached a similar result by a different route ; he could not identify an ‘ international ’ meaning of the phrase , but interpreting it by reference to English law ( but not adopting ‘ any parochial classification of a procedural nature ’ ) he held that fiscal matters were a special category , outwith that of ‘ civil or commercial ’ . |
| 27 | 3.8.2 be answerable for and indemnify the Landlord against all actions costs claims demands and liability whatever in relation to any failure by the Tenant to comply with [ its ] obligations under clause 3.7.3 or in relation to any claim made by any adjoining owner or occupier or member of the public or other person in connection with the carrying out of the Tenant 's Works |
| 28 | CLANGING NETHERLANDERS Bettie Serveert named themselves in tribute to '70s tennis ace Bettie Stove and bash out their raw chunks of crude guitar pop in tribute to the Pixies , Throwing Muse , Cocteaus and everyone else on parent label 4AD . |
| 29 | Lots of love to big bruv , and to you |
| 30 | Since there are few books indexed under " swords " , the " history of swords " searcher may well be prepared to look through them all ; there are thousands of books under " history " , and only a minute proportion will contain anything of relevance to this searcher . |