Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOSERS : The Financial Times , which was slow off the mark in exposing Labour 's tax plans and by declaring for Labour has shown itself to be as pink as its paper . |
| 2 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 3 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 4 | It is a return to the 1930s idea that people out of work had to humble themselves to be given benefit they were entitled to . |
| 5 | The new release of PageMaker has addressed itself to four main areas in which users felt the product was lacking ; long documents , repetitive formats , graphics and colour , as well as adding additional features such as text export and enhanced file import facilities . |
| 6 | Critics say that Televisa 's near-monopoly of television has enabled it to blacklist artists who deal with its rivals . |
| 7 | Older residents recall the days when a car could be driven down this lane , but years of neglect had reduced it to a narrow path . |
| 8 | That eruption of passion had blinkered her to the risks she was taking , letting herself get involved with a man like this … |
| 9 | The collapse of Marxism-Leninism has brought us to that ‘ absolute moment ’ which marks the end of humanity 's long journey through the night of political confusion and abortive social and economic experiment . |
| 10 | Now as the city of Manchester goes all out to win the race to host the Olympic games … our own town of Banbury has beaten them to a gold medal … the local boatbuilding firm of Laser will be racing at the next Olympics and to celebrate they 're having a water sports week |
| 11 | Years of sunlight had tanned him to the same mahogany brown as the island fishermen . |
| 12 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 13 | I am , by nature , one of the latter , but I yearn to be one of the former , and many years of travelling has led me to a kind of uneasy compromise . |
| 14 | You were right in saying that the minister Earl of Arran has disappointed me to no end . |
| 15 | But both knew that the Aristotle File was too important — too potentially damaging to the Seven — for Berdichev to have kept it to himself : for it was no less than the true history of Chung Kuo ; the version of events the tyrant Tsao Ch'un had buried beneath his own . |
| 16 | The Aldam family from Guildford have beaten them to it . |
| 17 | My experience in England has led me to the conclusion that most people are unable to see me whole . |
| 18 | Nobody apart from Wayne had mentioned it to him , though , which probably meant that while their mouths were shut their minds would be running in overdrive . |
| 19 | The Star Ferry keeps on going , its little green ships bucking across the harbour in the growing swell until the last stragglers from Kowloon have made it to Hong Kong , and those bound north from the island have reached their goal . |
| 20 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 21 | Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites . |
| 22 | Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted . |
| 23 | Disease-resistant cultivars at Snowshill have shown themselves to be Rosa rugosa ‘ Roserie de l'Hay ’ , R. rugosa ‘ Frau Dagmar Hartopp ’ , R. ‘ Excelsa ’ , ‘ Felicite et Perpetue ’ and ‘ Felicia ’ , Rosa spinosissima and Rosa rubrifolia . |
| 24 | The appeal court in Pappa v Rose ( 1872 ) LR 7 CP 525 noted that the valuers in Jenkins v Betham had declared themselves to be persons possessed of proper skill for valuations of ecclesiastical property , whereas Mr Rose was only a selling broker expressing his opinion . |