Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 2 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 3 | However , their architecture — a connectionist network — limits them to a small vocabulary of 211 words . |
| 4 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 5 | She smilingly explains that the scanner is a sort of lie-down X-ray and leads me to a narrow bed that slides inch by inch through what looks like a dry-cleaning machine . |
| 6 | If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides . |
| 7 | Cain kills Abel — it is a short step from rebellion to bloodshed — and God condemns him to a nomadic life , but provides protection against death . |
| 8 | The boy or girl was not ‘ a blank piece of paper on which the teacher should write ’ , and it was in this liberal spirit that he condemned drill : ‘ Military drill fashions him to an approved standard as part of the machine ; whereas the aim of Scouting is to develop his personal character and initiative . ’ |
| 9 | Long before New York 's Whitney Museum mounts its own assessment in 1994 , the present exhibition introduces him to an European audience . |
| 10 | We see then that the idea introduces us to a radical gospel which brings an uncomfortable message to our hearts . |
| 11 | This leads us to a fundamental distinction in the character of critical judgements , a distinction between what I shall call internal and external criteria of judgement . |
| 12 | His devotional works are full of joy ; religion , he said , ‘ leads us to a huge felicity through pleasant ways ’ . |
| 13 | This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working . |
| 14 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 15 | Modern conditions have involved us in rivalry of armaments which is now a conscious struggle to achieve by expenditure and science , by diplomacy and alliances , a balance of power which always eludes us , and because it is always variable and unstable condemns us to a bloodless battle , a dry warfare of steel and gold . |
| 16 | This case reduces them to a single principle , the ‘ neighbour principle ’ , which emerges as part of the ratio decidendi of the case . |
| 17 | Another twenty minutes of this reduces me to a disorientated wreck , near to tears and vomiting . |
| 18 | If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser , the latter will acquire good title . |
| 19 | And he takes me to an Italian restaurant in Mitcham . |
| 20 | To the west of the forest an hour long walk takes you to an impressive waterfall , Spout Force . |
| 21 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 22 | The problem is reproducing the image in bulk ; photocopying simply reduces it to a uniform blur , traditional litho printing is much the same . |
| 23 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 24 | Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards . |
| 25 | If the medium of issue is magnetic then the indefinite maintenance of bit-perfect records commits us to an active program of periodic renewal and integrity checking , or a one-off transfer to a more permanent medium . |
| 26 | Our second association item takes us to a late autumn in the next reign . |
| 27 | A consideration of two dreams in Shakespeare 's plays takes us to a similar conclusion . |
| 28 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
| 29 | By denying women their individuality and treating them as a class , the feminist movement confines them to a political ghetto , with the movement 's leaders as overseers . |
| 30 | An expert system , in basic terms , contains three main elements : a knowledge-base ( rules and facts provided by experts ) , an inference engine ( a computer program which manipulates the knowledge-base and applies it to a particular problem ) and a user interface to make the system " user-friendly " and to provide explanations of the reasoning adopted and advice given by the expert system . |