Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some moments before it occurred to any of them that it might well be Chris or the tardy boy from the bistro , harmlessly appealing for admission to his promised evening of jollity and sustenance . |
| 2 | Liability for damage to which this Agreement relates . |
| 3 | During the building of Cat Bank £3 was paid to Thomas Barrow for damage to his adjoining land , but it was Joseph Barrow who was paid £5 : 13s. : 9d. for land taken to widen the road from the Black Bull Inn to the fell gate — in all 273 yards at 5d . |
| 4 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 5 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 6 | To perform these pieces in the same circumstances as Byrd would have done round a table with friends is to take the quest for authenticity to its logical conclusion . |
| 7 | Unthinkingly , I added : " And I 'm just off home to our own street party " . |
| 8 | At the end of World War II , during the 1944/45 ‘ Winter of starvation ’ , the delivery of normal food such as bread to his young patients in his hospital was endangered . |
| 9 | In the case of one otherwise excellent book governors looking for reference to their own role in the index would have found nothing listed between ‘ Failure ’ and ‘ Handicap ’ ! |
| 10 | Her heart was full of benevolence to our own species , and most sensitively alive to suffering animals , and might in truth be called as a member of the society to which she belonged , the Animals ’ Friend . ’ |
| 11 | Carolyn Pride , Virginia Pitman and Anne Bolton have remained pillars of support to their emotional friend . |
| 12 | The operation was carried out without negligence by the surgeon but the plaintiff was severely disabled as a result of damage to her spinal cord . |
| 13 | This is the obedience of faith to which personal conviction leads . |
| 14 | Thus , the policy context , within which the redundancies took place and which older workers experienced in the labour market , often for the first time in twenty or more years , was one of unconcern if not of antagonism to their special needs . |
| 15 | In this respect , Romanyshyn 's work is a rich extension of Edmund Husserl 's critique of psychologism , the reduction of experience to its subjective aspect . |
| 16 | Such is Macari 's sense of insult to his personal integrity that he once he once defended himself in an ominously dramatic tone . |
| 17 | Most humans , after all , have never successfully applied the scientific techniques of meditation to their own minds , including many of today 's ‘ gurus ’ . |
| 18 | May He grant more peace of mind to my dear husband ! ’ |
| 19 | None wished or attempted to destroy all the institutions which acted as possible centres of opposition to their reforming efforts . |
| 20 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 21 | When the Secretary of State proposes to issue a code of practice to which this section applies , he shall prepare and publish a draft of that code , shall consider any representations made to him about the draft and may modify the draft accordingly . … |
| 22 | The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a code of practice to which this section applies and issue that revised code ; and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply ( with appropriate modifications ) to such a revised code as they apply to the first issue of a code . |
| 23 | … and in the arms of the law yesterday after his arrest for non-payment of maintenance to his now-estranged wife |
| 24 | It is certainly out of proportion to their actual size , but is in my view a healthy thing . |
| 25 | There were not many of them but they made an impact on the Congress that was quite out of proportion to their small numbers . |
| 26 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 27 | Hence , pressure groups for the disabled , the old , neglected children and so on will exert influence out of proportion to their naked power . |
| 28 | This animal does not hibernate , but stores food for the winter , which means that the damage it can cause is out of proportion to its diminutive size . |
| 29 | SHALLOW , SELF-important , with a reputation well out of proportion to his meagre talent , Kenneth Branagh is British Culture 's idea of a modern Renaissance man . |
| 30 | ‘ Once you accept outside Palestinians , you validate the concept of their right of return to their former homes in what is now Israel , ’ a Likud source said . |