Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Judicature Act , just as much as before it , if A sells the property to C , who knows nothing of the trust , and transfers the legal ownership to him , B's rights to the property are destroyed ; he can only look to A for compensation for the breach of trust . |
| 2 | The content and implications of this document have been very widely analysed and debated as has the Tanzanian reaction to it , but a few short passages need perhaps to be quoted yet again if only to underline the very fundamental challenges it poses for curriculum planners . |
| 3 | Mad has the right sound to it . |
| 4 | A female usually very , but , I do n't know , it looks a young bird to me . |
| 5 | He looks a bad colour to me . " |
| 6 | Many of us who represent the valleys would like the same amount of money to be spent on matters other than the bay , which has no God-given right to it . |
| 7 | The story has a familiar ring to it in the sense that women are seldom encouraged to be in top positions at work the world over . |
| 8 | If such a three-pronged assault on the ailing Soviet economy has a familiar ring to it , that is hardly surprising . |
| 9 | The problem has a modern ring to it : how do you balance the necessary provision of aid to those really in need with the risk of supporting malingerers on the parish rates ? |
| 10 | That one has a nice ring to it . |
| 11 | Equally , much conversation has a regular pattern to it . |
| 12 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 13 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 14 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 15 | Similarly ‘ seal ’ has a future look to it . |
| 16 | The opposed parties in such disputes , evidently believing that causality has a chain-like character to it , have an impoverished notion of how things actually work . |
| 17 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 18 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 19 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 20 | This has a certain ring to it , but apparently it is not entirely accurate . |
| 21 | The Sargent painting has a lovely crispness to it and is celebratory in his straightforward frankness . |
| 22 | Jerry has a natural edge to him , a wit which darts behind his eyes , and more distrust too , than Willie . |
| 23 | That your customer has a fiduciary responsibility to you in respect of any monies received from the sale of the goods . |
| 24 | She drives the wretched boy Kit , who has a platonic devotion to her , to attempt suicide by persistently upsetting him with ambitions for a stage career , for which he has no vocation . |
| 25 | The sea is sea-coloured , the heat has a cold edge to it . |
| 26 | This remark has an enticing obscurity to it , a flavour of ‘ Confucius , he says … ’ ; actually , as with many Chinese proverbs , the point Tarrow is making is a straightforward and simple one , that regionalism as policy resists categorisation and control within a particular administrative subject-area and has tended to develop branch-lines covering a wide range of policy intervention . |
| 27 | This scale has an Eastern flavour to it caused by the fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth degrees . |
| 28 | Nor will it invalidate his right to say , Every body else has an equal Title to it ; and therefore he can not appropriate , he can not inclose , without the Consent of all his Fellow-Commoners , all Mankind . |
| 29 | HE talks of jobs , of companies committing millions of dollars to the rebuilding scheme — which is has an impressive ring to it . |
| 30 | The idea is that he 's using them as , as a way of communicating the idea of the forest being er landscaped ; the whole environment of being polluted and it has an ecological background to it . |