Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 2 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 3 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
| 4 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 5 | But his recovery also owes a great deal to his personal courage . |
| 6 | The idea that a local authority owes a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers is by no means new , but it has never been subjected to a thorough judicial investigation . |
| 7 | There is some doubt as to whether a health authority is primarily liable , i.e. that it owes a non-delegable duty to its patients . |
| 8 | Resuming the journey from Stone House Bridge , the road now starts a long climb to its summit , rising gently at first and with the Dee an inseparable companion alongside . |
| 9 | I take it that our explanation , you and I who are the children of the children of Freud , do think that our body erm adds a great contribution to our individuation ? |
| 10 | In this respect this is not a ‘ pure ’ trust clause , for it does not merely confirm bequests but adds a new element to their payability . |
| 11 | Each woman is mistress of her own fertility for which she alone is responsible : the community has no legal right to her progeny ; nor does her husband if they should divorce . |
| 12 | The verb metaphor is further characterized by the fact that it has no direct link to its proper term , but acts on the noun of which it is the predicate ; in the case of the transitive verb it can also act on its direct and indirect objects . |
| 13 | Prostitution is the hardest labour in the world , Dostoevsky thought , and Sonya of the yellow ticket who sells her body to buy her family 's bread has no loose-end aspect to her suffering . |
| 14 | It has a similar shape to its smaller cousin , the Scissortail , but is otherwise quite different . |
| 15 | Spinnaker ripstop must not be confused with its near relative , Balloon ripstop which has a stretchy feeling to its touch , comes on 137cm ( 54in ) rolls and does not crease . |
| 16 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 17 | Any big city has a dirty hem to its outskirts . |
| 18 | The job or position to which a person is attracted has a strong link to their goal profile . |
| 19 | It argues that Britain has a moral responsibility to its citizens in Hong Kong ; that Hong Kong people ‘ do not want to leave … they seek an insurance policy ’ ; that Britain is ‘ markedly ungenerous to its colonies ’ compared with other European countries ; and that ‘ insofar as any Hong Kong people were to move to Britain , they would be a valuable asset to the British economy ’ . |
| 20 | The young greater honeyguide , which parasitises red-throated bee-eaters , has a hooked tip to its bill with which it pecks its nest mates to death . |
| 21 | This boot is slightly more flexible than the K-SB3 L GTX , is more generously sized and has a distinct curve to its sole . |
| 22 | Hydro-electric power , though renewable , has a finite limit to its development potential unlike some of the other renewables and will never contribute a great deal more to world energy supply than it does at present . |
| 23 | The Leatherhead , Surrey-based UK arm of Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon International Inc has a high-end addition to its CNX family of bridge-router products for mixed local network and IBM Corp SNA environments . |
| 24 | To see this , we first have to note that the original sentence [ 3 ] has a phonological aptness to its meaning . |
| 25 | The dying planet has a metaphysical relationship to my own mortality and to that extent my inquiry into landscape is inherently ironic . |
| 26 | The experience , it is argued , has a privileged access to his own mental states , denied to external observers ; i.e. he " knows them in a sense in which no external observer can ever " know " them . |
| 27 | A splash of blackcurrant , or even better , blackberry liquor , adds an attractive tang to your bubbles and , though I have not tried it myself , others recommend elderflower cordial . |
| 28 | ‘ My safety was my priority , ’ said Lizzie , who bears a striking resemblance to her sister . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought ‘ You must be very calm , you must not antagonise your aggressor , just try to be calm and keep sensible , and always think what you are saying before you say it ’ , ’ said Lizzie , of Oxford , who bears a striking resemblance to her sister . |
| 30 | ‘ … who bears a close resemblance to our school janitor , Aziz — although , as far as I know , Aziz does not wander around with a tea towel on his head organizing terrorist attacks — Yasser Arafat — ’ |