Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So their contribution to local energy consumption is fairly small . |
| 2 | I did tell Mrs. Jervis for my heart was almost broken , but I opened not my mouth to any other . |
| 3 | Underneath it she was clad in a close-fitting N. Peal black sweater which showed off her figure to full advantage . |
| 4 | Even if you do n't like to fiddle with curlers and tongs you can show off your cut to best advantage by adding more volume and body to your hair . |
| 5 | So , when the house is full , and my husband 's away , and I give up my room to some guest like your Rainbow 's Aunt Goldie — I spend the night in my father 's study , and reading all the texts that were n't written for the eyes of women . |
| 6 | It is a point made so many times by so many people that it has almost lost its meaning : even if all children went to the same nursery , primary and secondary schools , their examination performance and hence their entry to higher education establishments and eventually to well-paid jobs will still vary according to their family background . |
| 7 | As mentioned in Chapter 1 , education has an important part to play in development , in both its contribution to structural change and to changing values . |
| 8 | Breastfeeding speeds up its return to normal size after birth . |
| 9 | A brother of the Earl was MP for Bootle until 1910 , when he gave up his seat to Bonar Law after Law 's defeat in Manchester . |
| 10 | Open up yu self to any possibility |
| 11 | Although some apply strict guidelines , others contract out their surveillance to private security companies . |
| 12 | Angus Cameron stood up on the oak stump which Donald used as a chopping-block , held out his hand to each part of the crowd as though drawing them into the circuit of the ceremony , and said , at first quietly , then gaining volume as he felt the truth of his words : ‘ Alexander McLaggan , Mary Stewart — you love each other , and must wed each other , and that is right and good . |
| 13 | We should not achieve what is best for Britain or the Community by giving up now our right to independent judgment then . |
| 14 | The strongest reason for voting Labour was indeed its commitment to improving welfare , repairing the damage Thatcherism has done to the social fabric . |
| 15 | The precise mechanisms of action and interaction of these factors on carcinogenesis require elucidation in order to understand fully their relationship to colonic cell proliferation . |
| 16 | Key here was the influence of non-western cultural forms on Artaud — first the foregrounding of actors ' movements and the absence of props in Japanese theatre ; then his exposure to Cambodian dance in 1922 ; but most importantly the Balinese Dance Theatre which Artaud witnessed at the Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1931 , after which he wrote a succession of now canonical theoretical essays on theatre . |
| 17 | And if that went — as , later , it threatened to do — then his access to that gift , that way with speaking , with ‘ being ’ another person and totally convincing an audience — that would be in danger . |
| 18 | Then our relationship to each other would change , and you would be a more boyish Philip Waken , and I a less hoydenish Maggie . |
| 19 | a duty of undivided loyalty — although the exact extent of this duty is uncertain , it may be argued that a conglomerate , when acting as a fiduciary , must not place itself in a position where its duty to one client conflicts with that of another client . |
| 20 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |