Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see why someone relates more to the transcendent Father , or to the incarnate Son , or to the indwelling Spirit , he needs a growing understanding of the Trinity . |
| 2 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 3 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 4 | This commonly results in the loss of the corneo-retinal potential , a standing potential difference of the order of one tenth of a volt across the back of the eyeball which contributes largely to the measurable changes in potential on the face resulting from eye movements in sighted people . |
| 5 | All of which adds up to an absorbing daily life and one in which any time that she spends on her own , when she often dwells on her sad past , is kept to a minimum . |
| 6 | Finally , Chapter 8 deals with the dynamics of composite systems in a manner which owes much to the pioneering work of Kron . |
| 7 | The dining room has a thirty foot wall of glass which enables guests to view the attractive landscaped garden and which looks out to a small patio for guests to enjoy in the summer . |
| 8 | The village took its name from the Roman road or straet known as the Gartree Road which passes close to the little limestone church of St Giles that now stands all alone on the skyline . |
| 9 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 10 | And furthermore , do n't bother with guidebook descriptions or the like , just find the crag and climb the rock , dappled with lichen , tinged with red and bristle-tufted with pink-and-dark-green heather , which soars up to a narrow apex . |
| 11 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 12 | Exquisitely furnished with antiques and fine paintings , it has impressive lounges and a bar which opens on to a large terrace where dancing can be arranged . |
| 13 | When the youngsters want to go outside and play they have to leave via the backdoor which opens on to a busy road . |
| 14 | The British , of course , have not been alone in this ; there is something in human nature which responds worshipfully to the sheer splendour of the Masai physical presence . |
| 15 | One of the enduring terms which speaks directly to the academic culture is that of the ‘ community of scholars ’ . |
| 16 | The no-arbitrage band is ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) - Sr ( l - f ) >or= F >or= ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) , which can be rewritten as S ( 1 + rf ) - D ( 1 + r ) |
| 17 | These links are evident in modernist style which extends also to the large blocks used for government administration and the offices of major commercial organizations . |
| 18 | The oral area is covered with skin , often with small granules , which extends on to the ventral surface of the arms . |
| 19 | A popular Greek saying is ‘ Know Thyself ’ , which dates back to the ancient Greeks . |
| 20 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 21 | Last weekend about 1,000 troops of the non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) attacked military outposts along Route 69 , which runs parallel to the Thai border about 20 miles inside Cambodia . |
| 22 | And judges Sir John Harvey-Jones and foot writer Jocelyn Dimbleby with presenter Loyd Grossman have to choose the winner who goes through to the final ‘ cook-off ’ in July . |
| 23 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 24 | The most forceful arguments for the period being one of economic growth are those put forward by Bridbury , who points rightly to the phenomenal increases paid by certain towns in taxation between 1334 and 1524 . |
| 25 | This itself leads directly to a rhetorical view , which stresses the importance of argumentation and negation . |
| 26 | There is Ethel and her cello , at which she saws away to the halting accompaniment of Lou , the schoolgirl niece . |
| 27 | As a physical presence , Lanegan is oddly compelling for a man who clings solemnly to the mic stand throughout , breaking off only occasionally to reach for a glass or perform his quaint little bop routine at the outset of ‘ Nearly Lost You ’ , another gast-flabbering newie . |
| 28 | And as Kemf witnesses more and more of the damage and the recovery for herself , she becomes closer to the Vietnamese friends who help her with her project , most particularly to Vietnam 's most eminent environmentalist , Vo Quy . |
| 29 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 30 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |