Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this would be at a great price for the many to deal with the problems of the few . |
| 2 | Japan could be of much importance in the event of war and it might be feasible for the Japanese to fight for the United States after a war had begun . |
| 3 | It will not be pleasant for the elderly to live in the town centre . |
| 4 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 5 | A very hardy Aponogeton , and one of the best to grow in the aquarium . |
| 6 | The readiness of the poor to appeal over the heads of overseers to the magistrates suggests this . |
| 7 | The frightening prospects described in the Limits to Growth model may have driven geographers of the 1970s to turn to the problems of smaller areas . |
| 8 | Samsung Electronics Co 's workstation division last week introduced its SWS715 Hewlett-Packard clone workstation , one of the first to emerge onto the market . |
| 9 | I wonder , bearing in mind that incident , however serious , or minor it was , would you be one of the first to go through the Channel Tunnel ? |
| 10 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 11 | I delivered Eliot to Magdalen , and was one of the first to arrive for the English Club meeting , accompanied by a Somerville girl to whom I had become attached . |
| 12 | The Queen Mother was one of the first to arrive on the scene . |
| 13 | The court heard that Mr Hale 's crew was one of the first to arrive at the underground station after the fire broke out . |
| 14 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 15 | Mr Livingstone was one of the first to step into the debate on Friday , claiming that Mr Smith 's plans had frightened middle-income earners . |
| 16 | ‘ Indeed a bill might be one of the first to come before the Scottish Grand Committee . |
| 17 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 18 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 19 | His mother is one of the first to benefit from the use of the new monitor . |
| 20 | He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald |
| 21 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 22 | This is for the proportions of the elderly to decline in the populations of some large , traditional retirement resorts , such as Bournemouth and Torquay , and to rise in adjacent and nearby local authorities . |
| 23 | A leading former contra leader , Israel Galeano , 38 , known as Commander Franklin , and one of the last to surrender after the victory of Chamorro in the February 1990 presidential election , was killed in a car accident near Matagalpa on May 4 . |
| 24 | This is unusual for a city , because of the normal desire of the wealthy to live outside the city . |
| 25 | Recognizing amongst the life-filled Indonesian islands a way of being and mind as alien as it was complementary to Western thought , Wallace 's writings were also amongst the first to gleam with an enlightened futurism . |
| 26 | Often the easiest way out is for an infringer to design around the claims of a patent , for instance by changing vital features . |
| 27 | He was less than tidy over the stretch and then , after an indecently long wait to begin his final round , dropped three shots in a row from the 2nd to finish with a 71 and a 272 total . |
| 28 | Vertical equity is the Robin Hood principle of taking from the rich to give to the poor . |
| 29 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 30 | Cherrykino , carrying the colours of Anne Duchess of Westminster , is a highly progressive chaser and turned over odds-on Milford Quay when running on gamely from the last to prevail by a length . |