Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was so despite America 's traditional policy of ‘ isolationism ’ and its strong aversion to involvement in European affairs . |
| 2 | James McLoughlin , a senior vice-president with Raybestos Manhattan in the US , said they saw the scenes at the dump site as simply another obstacle on their rocky road to success in Ireland . |
| 3 | The evidence before our eyes is her faultless attention to detail in these exquisite flower decorations . |
| 4 | Since almost all the basic sports medicine provision within governing bodies of sport is provided by doctors who are either paid nothing or who are given a small honorarium , the prospect of maintaining separate medical defence cover for their voluntary activities may place their valuable contribution to sport in jeopardy . |
| 5 | Schiffer began her extraordinary rise to fame in 1988 when she was just seventeen . |
| 6 | A PREGNANT mum who threatened to starve herself and her unborn child to death in an immigration row is toasting victory this weekend . |
| 7 | Suzanne 's individual score of 35.05 , her highest score to date in a National Championship final , gave her 15th place overall and sixth place in the under 18 section . |
| 8 | The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel . |
| 9 | The new concept of form reached its fullest expression to date in the work of Picasso done at Horta de San Juan , and some sheets of drawings which date from the early days of his return to Paris , show Picasso methodically applying the Cubist concept of form to objects of different kinds and shapes : to a human head , a box , an apple and so on . |
| 10 | Their parallel evolution to man in a comparable habitat is thus of special interest . |
| 11 | The Government is the target of a drumfire of criticism for its hands-off approach to industry in the 1980s . |
| 12 | He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league . |
| 13 | Dr Berisha , a 47-year-old cardiologist who led his Democratic Party to victory in legislative elections last month , becomes Albania 's first non-communist President . |
| 14 | In 1604 James I of England published his famous Counterlaste to Tobacco in which he made what was probably the earliest statement on the effects of smoling on gastric secretion : ‘ … and by causing over quick digestion , fill the stomach full of crudites . ’ |
| 15 | His firm commitment to flexibilIty in the education of deaf people contributed significantly to the surging emancipation of deaf children everywhere from the yoke of generations of denial . |
| 16 | In these letters to Harry he frequently mentions his excessive response to beauty in men , women , and children . |
| 17 | It was against this troubled background that Truman presented his 21-point programme to Congress in September 1945 — the programme later known as the Fair Deal . |
| 18 | The reason ; what they see as his dictatorial attitude to parking in the High Street . |