Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |
| 2 | Thus regions may make a case for transport links with the Tunnel on the grounds that current levels of business demand it , but may not request them as a necessary precondition to the creation of that demand . |
| 3 | I unite with all who protest against them as a grave menace to youth , to home life , to country and to religion . |
| 4 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 5 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 6 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 7 | As the comments run into hundreds of pages in total , it was not feasible to append them as a single annex to this report . |
| 8 | Earlier , he had been reunited with someone with a substantial claim to fame . |
| 9 | ‘ Because John does shift work I get very lonely and would like to write to someone in a similar position to myself , preferably living in the Sheffield area . ’ |
| 10 | Kissing in this form , as a proper way to greet someone in a certain relation to oneself , is a social convention . |
| 11 | But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’ |
| 12 | The man who had previously been compared to a dissected rabbit ( Barry Egan , NME ) and a pale , sad faced , First World War Volunteer ( John Peel , The Observer ) , found himself as a viable alternative to Brother Beyond , Wet Wet Wet and the Goss twins , for a bedroom wall appearance . |
| 13 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
| 14 | In Christianity , the problems in the emotional life of humanity are handled by one of the company of brothers offering himself as a sacrificial victim to the father , to redeem the brothers for the murder of the father — the original sin which haunts the brothers . |
| 15 | Schoenberg was a great admirer of Brahm 's music , and saw himself as a natural successor to the German romantic school . |
| 16 | He introduced himself with a slight bow to the tall man . |
| 17 | Once you have destroyed the myth of somebody in a different situation to yourself , it is over . |
| 18 | After the The Lancaster House agreement , Mike had found himself in a similar position to the rest of the Rhodesian Army — overqualified , over-trained , and unemployed . |
| 19 | Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) . |
| 20 | Israel knew beyond a shadow of doubt that there was one God , the Creator of the whole world , who had disclosed himself in a special way to their nation . |
| 21 | Sounds to me like a similar performance to that of the West Ham match , except norwich are better at getting you on the break cos that is how they play . |
| 22 | What they do suggest indirectly , however , is that the economic rhetoric and even the orthodox economic beliefs of politicians bear nothing like a direct relationship to economic reality . |
| 23 | Valdimir Dlouhy , Czech Trade and Tourism and Industry Minister , reportedly described retaining a common currency as " political suicide " and said that there was " no way " in which the Czech republic would commit itself through a common currency to financing Slovak budget deficits . |
| 24 | Valdimir Dlouhy , Czech Trade and Tourism and Industry Minister , reportedly described retaining a common currency as " political suicide " and said that there was " no way " in which the Czech republic would commit itself through a common currency to financing Slovak budget deficits . |
| 25 | Until a sane , liberal regime is restored within the party itself , it will not be fully re-equipped either to arrive at the right policy choices or to project itself as a responsive party to the electorate . |
| 26 | In both cases the ego seeks to defend itself against a passive relation to the superego and , in its manic symptoms , succeeds in convincing itself that it has been successful . |
| 27 | Is n't she like a little sister to him ? " |
| 28 | As the socialists moved increasingly left of the republic , splitting the coalition government , the right gained support reorganising itself into a united opposition to the republic under the umbrella of the C.E.D.A. The right wing capitalised on the Catholic reaction against republican anticlericalism in order to gain power . |
| 29 | Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% . |
| 30 | I provide you with a one inch to the mile map , and a box of matches each one inch long . |