Example sentences of "[pron] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future . |
| 2 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 3 | Another key element in Russian culture was alcohol , the unscrupulous introduction of which to the unsophisticated natives by traders led in many cases to addiction , loss of the means of livelihood and eventual pauperization . |
| 4 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 5 | Only in his own pieces ( all transcriptions of other composer 's works ) is he able to stretch himself to the outer limits of his technique . |
| 6 | His willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate makes Neil Kinnock look like a beacon of moral and political rectitude . |
| 7 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 8 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |
| 9 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 10 | This splendid Sovereign tour takes you to the historic areas of Upper Egypt and the treasures of the Nile Valley . |
| 11 | Our Discovery Tour of Sri Lanka will introduce you to the many wonders of this harmonious land . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , Doctor , ’ said Julie , ‘ I 'll leave you to the tender mercies of these ladies . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Would you have preferred I leave you to the tender mercies of your American admirer ? ’ |
| 14 | " With the ability to adapt itself to the changing requirements of the times , the school still lives , and its reputation stands as high as ever among the inhabitants of Stockport and the surrounding districts , and in educational circles beyond the extended parish of Stockport . " |
| 15 | In 1877 Anglicans founded the Guild of St Matthew , the first organization inside the Church of England to address itself to the social implications of Christianity since the 1850s . |
| 16 | There was a restlessness in the time that communicated itself everywhere and to everyone , that communicated itself to the very sounds in Britain 's air , the stones beneath Britain 's feet . |
| 17 | City failed to produce one worthwhile shot and owed everything to the extraordinary reflexes of their goalkeeper . |
| 18 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 19 | This ‘ conveyor belt ’ view of the oceanic crust , which owed something to the earlier ideas of Holmes , was termed seafloor spreading by Dietz , another American geologist . |
| 20 | The rate of propagation varies from one to a hundred metres per second , depending on the diameter of the axon . |
| 21 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 22 | I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father . |
| 23 | Using such stereotypes , one can then argue that the occult sciences of the Renaissance could contribute nothing to the new sciences of the seventeenth century . |
| 24 | Change was a mass movement ; it owed nothing to the puny efforts of the individual . |
| 25 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 26 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 27 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 28 | The task of sociology is to develop tools and modes of understanding these different patterns and responses and to relate them to the broad strands of historical change . |
| 29 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 30 | We have yet to integrate them one with another , and we have yet to relate them to the practical demands of learning and teaching foreign languages . |