Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you do something you consider wrong or contrary to your self-imposed standards ( ie letting someone down , pilfering , having an extra-marital affair , forgetting someone 's birthday , being out at work when the children come home from school ) . |
| 2 | J. Roberts regretted that due to his many commitments he had not been able to play as active a role in the Society during the past year as he would have wished . |
| 3 | He recorded over 200 baptisms , including those of Lawyer and Rotten Belly , though some whispered that due to his failing eyesight he baptised certain individuals more than once . |
| 4 | If you feel that due to your own income , you will find difficulty in paying the charge , make application for Poll Tax benefit to us now . |
| 5 | In fact Flavia Sherman had paid less attention than usual to her two sons since her arrival at the camp . |
| 6 | However , we did our best at that stage , and perhaps Christian poets in Burmese literature will arise and help our people to produce hymns more satisfying to the Burmese spirit and understandable to our Buddhist friends . |
| 7 | Even on this hot day it felt cool and clammy to her bare feet , and then , as contrast , came the baking hot flags of the terrace . |
| 8 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 9 | Reassured that our political leaders are both aware of the problem 's growing dimensions and receptive to our rising anxieties , we wait in optimistic but realistic anticipation for crime to be at least effectively reduced . |
| 10 | Because of this , only certain types of products and selling practices that the individual perceives as normal and acceptable to his particular culture will be acceptable . |
| 11 | Kenneth had invited friends young and old to his special party . |
| 12 | May we use his example to remind us to be caring and compassionate to everyone this Christmas time . |
| 13 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 14 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 15 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 16 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 17 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording on the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 18 | KPMG reserve the right to publish at its own expense and subject to your prior approval a tombstone recording the completed transaction unless you inform us that this would be in breach of specific confidentiality undertakings exchanged between the parties . |
| 19 | ‘ The very substantial funds which we are making available for Eastern Europe … are separate from and additional to our regular aid programme . ’ |
| 20 | Rolle stresses the need to acquire discretion in these observances so that they do not become ends in themselves and counter-productive to their true purpose — to release the practitioner to a freedom to love . |
| 21 | Thus the SEC held that Rule 10b-5 was not confined to traditional insiders but was equally applicable to ‘ those persons who are in a special relationship with a company and privy to its internal affairs , and [ who ] thereby suffer corresponding duties in trading [ on ] its securities ’ . |
| 22 | There is much here which can in influential and inspirational to our own painting . |
| 23 | However , it seems impossible to deny that each of us also has a sense of a self , or a centre of awareness , somehow within and integral to our ongoing experience , and such as to give a kind of unity to it . |
| 24 | So the aggregate level of output will be above its natural level if the average price level is above the economy-wide expectation of it , below it if the average price level is below the economy-wide expectation of it , and equal to its natural level if the average level of prices equals the economy-wide expectation of it . |
| 25 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 26 | Since the company made its appeal — and contrary to their current data sheet for the drug — Upjohn has recommended delaying Depo injections until the sixth week after childbirth . |
| 27 | Liberal Democrats want local councils to be as responsive and accountable to their local citizens as possible . |
| 28 | This moderate system of government was frequently adopted by Charles , who early on in his reign had recognised the wisdom of leaving local leaders in place wherever it seemed possible and beneficial to his own aims . |
| 29 | Following this northern campaign , in which Garibaldi commanded a force , the new Italy ceded both Savoy and Nice to its French allies . |
| 30 | Dean proved to be generally rude and disruptive to his fellow actors , and spent much of his free time in his dressing room , refusing to speak to anyone unless it directly concerned the film . |