Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lanarkshire development agency now fulfils the co-ordinating role to which my hon. Friend referred . |
| 2 | This places one in the domain of knowledge or facts and the perceiving necessarily precedes the logical conclusion to which it gives rise . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mad has the right sound to it . |
| 6 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 7 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 8 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
| 9 | → 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 . |
| 10 | But his recovery also owes a great deal to his personal courage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A female usually very , but , I do n't know , it looks a young bird to me . |
| 15 | He looks a bad colour to me . " |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The method is perfectly structured internally but has no necessary connection to anything outside itself ; there is no analytical purchase on it from without . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Such a tradition of behaviour ‘ is neither fixed nor finished ; it has no changeless centre to which understanding can anchor itself ; there is no sovereign purpose to be perceived or invariable direction to be detected ; there is no model to be copied , idea to be realised , or rule to be followed ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If such a three-pronged assault on the ailing Soviet economy has a familiar ring to it , that is hardly surprising . |
| 26 | It has a similar shape to its smaller cousin , the Scissortail , but is otherwise quite different . |
| 27 | ‘ Michael Chang has a similar concentration to what Jimmy had . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | That one has a nice ring to it . |
| 30 | 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 . |