Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The attraction of such films lies apparently in the offer of illicit sexual pleasure to men whose sexual confidence is at such a low ebb as to make them unlikely or unable to resist . |
2 | Even when I am small boy , I must carrying to school my small brother . |
3 | If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts . |
4 | He became a Wesleyan Sunday-school teacher and an enthusiastic if unsophisticated temperance advocate — the sort of convert to respectability whose transformed life the new movement liked to advertise . |
5 | And within three minutes Jamie Hoyland burst from midfield to claim his first goal of the season , bundling the ball past Schmeichel when the Danish keeper was left helplessly unprotected against an inswinging Hodges free kick . |
6 | 1064 so to escape the prima facie claim to immunity which this class of documents ordinarily attracts . |
7 | Earlier , press reports citing Western diplomats had indicated that Russia 's interpretation of the complex mechanism for inspections had prevented access to sites which Western officials said should be opened to scrutiny . |
8 | 4 What is the ethical justification of barring access to treatments which some individuals may benefit from ? |
9 | Firstly , there was a widespread opinion that arts staff do not give the priority to INSET which other areas of the curriculum do . |
10 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
11 | To add insult to injury his faithful laser blazer has limited power , so to keep the aliens at bay he has to make every shot count . |
12 | The SEC has given evidence of its own inability to police its anti-insider dealing regulations , especially where foreign funding of such trading is involved . |
13 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
14 | Those who had come to New England to have an opportunity to practice their own approach to religion , and then found they did not agree with the views held by those who were in power , had a more serious problem . |
15 | After a long gallop to Radstock our two heroes then made their weary way back to Crediton where they made their final assault . |
16 | And Neil Kinnock and Kevin McNamara should be making a special effort to affiliate their own union , the TGWU , to the SDLP . |
17 | The other Girls would have had to send money home but Jane set aside a similar sum to tide her over periods of unemployment . |
18 | And when Mick Stockwell slid over a low cross in the 73rd minute , Kiwomya was on hand to sidefoot it past goalkeeper Nigel Spink . |
19 | It 's all very well putting in applications for the bank to loan you large sums of money , but it is quite another thing to have them accepted . |
20 | Very few of you will be starting from scratch to implement your computerised personnel information system . |
21 | Such a situation poses a threat to privacy which this draft directive quite properly addresses ’ . |
22 | He took an extreme position on law reform as well as in matters religious , and his fellow millenarians took to meeting regularly at his house to concert their parliamentary tactics . |
23 | All its parts work fundamentally as one ’ ( 1977 , p. 47 ) , even if from time to time its various parts seem to be moving in different directions . |
24 | The constant dangers and perplexities that beset John Kemp arise from the ferocious enmity of O'Brien , whose hatred of anything English is increased by his hopeless love for the Don 's daughter Seraphina , for whose sake he moderates from time to time his evil power over the old aristocrat . |
25 | A target company may use the power to buy-in its own shares as part of a defensive strategy ( see para 18.5.7 below ) , subject to Rules 21 and 37.3 . |