Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 2 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 3 | Molesworth claimed that the House would not be committing itself to the larger scheme , nevertheless it was not in a mood for what George Bankes called an ‘ extensive scheme to enable Cabinet Ministers to entertain foreign visitors and their friends ’ . |
| 4 | Putting this point on a more theoretical level , the musical field and the class structure at any given moment , though clearly not unconnected , comprise different ‘ maps ’ of social/cultural space , and they can not be reduced one to the other ( see Williams 1981 ) . |
| 5 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 6 | ‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’ |
| 7 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 8 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 9 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 10 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 11 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 12 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's appointed himself to the temporary monitoring team . |
| 14 | In such a case the judge is not abusing his powers ; he is exercising them to the best of his ability albeit some other court thinks he was mistaken . |
| 15 | The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ . |
| 16 | Naval regional officer Commander Bill Sidgwick said : ‘ The aim is to show the public how the Royal Navy is adapting itself to the modern changing world . |
| 17 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 18 | In some haste he drafted a brief manifesto to show how the Conservative Party was adapting itself to the post-Reform Act political scene . |
| 19 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 20 | The best Korf could think of was leaving everything to the provincial gentry , which Alexander had tried without success in his Moscow speech of March 1856 . |
| 21 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 22 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |