Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years after her conversion to strictness of life , she was sexually attracted to a man she knew well , although she seems to have had just before this a grandiose sense of her own imperviousness to sin . |
| 2 | However , since , in the mixed condition , the high incidence of singular references is associated with continuations based on the named-character , support is gained for the idea of contrast over mixed description types , influenced or driven by a tendency to isolate a named character through its elevation to status of ‘ principal character ’ ( cf. |
| 3 | Tell the President that you have not forgotten about Wang Xizhe and other Pro-Democracy Movement activists who are still jail for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression . |
| 4 | The newspaper and its journalists applied to the European Court , claiming that the ban was an infringement of their right to freedom of expression . |
| 5 | But a nation now so proud of its right to freedom of speech could not exempt British institutions from criticism . |
| 6 | AIBS considers Son-hee to be a prisoner of conscience , detained for the peaceful exercise of her rights to freedom of expression and association . |
| 7 | Certainly there is no doubt of the strength of Catherine 's desire for a good press in Western Europe and of her sensitivity to criticism of any kind : vanity and amour propre played a greater role in her policies than in those of any other ruler of the period . |
| 8 | My earlier justifications of an elitist selection procedure for our target group of students are incompatible with my commitment to equality of opportunity . |
| 9 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 10 | The Foreign Office , Ministry of Defence and intelligence services were resolute in their opposition to relaxation of the security rules . |
| 11 | In his footnote to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , J. S. Mill says that it is not ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions ’ that an object produces in us that we predicate of the object . |
| 12 | This was " our Arthur " at his first big political contest on home ground since his election to presidency of the union . |
| 13 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |
| 14 | we did , we did try to pu well , as I say , with the trouble we had upstairs , we just thought it just was n't worth our while to sort of mess |
| 15 | So the arrival and use of relational databases has been absolutely perfect for our approach to development of accounting systems . |