Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't ! ’ she gasped helplessly , unable to prevent a trembling response to his intimate touch . |
| 2 | Home Office Minister Charles Wardle told the Commons : ‘ I am sure that we all hope these evacuees will be able to return in due course to their own country . |
| 3 | And then the Company brought craftsmen who laboured mightily and restored this historic building to its original splendour for the delight and wonderment of people not only from the district of Montgomeryshire but from diverse parts . |
| 4 | Hank was delighted , though at the same time a little suspicious of his father 's prompt response to his friendly overture . |
| 5 | The news came as a devastating blow to her 67-year-old father , the Mossley Hill-born grandson of a Liverpool police superintendent . |
| 6 | Lynn Carter presented a striking contrast to her extrovert mate . |
| 7 | It was natural that the sermons should be indignant , but the ferocious exultation in them at the fate of the conspirators is in striking contrast to his usual gentleness . |
| 8 | He was a complete mess ; and please , let me claim , in complete contrast to my own turnout . |
| 9 | Her complete indifference to her fourteen children must also be abnormal . |
| 10 | I also recommend Chairman that these member discussions should be extended to include representatives of the Breckland and District Council , given their declared opposition to our preferred choice route A and the important procedures now associated with the drafting of local plans . |
| 11 | Again , there is heavy reliance on the deputy or deputies , on one or two other experienced or senior staff and on the capacity of one or more of the governors not only to understand , to discuss and if necessary to change first ideas without bloodshed but also to explain the professional side to their lay colleagues . |
| 12 | Curate Tim Robinson , from Acklam , Middlesbrough , whose culinary pastimes offer a rich compliment to his clerical vocation , is joined by catering student Michelle Hattee , from Stamford Bridge , and farmer 's wife Linda Yewdall , from Melbourne , both near York . |
| 13 | This type of solar cell is now a possible alternative to its solid-state counterpart . |
| 14 | Behind the rise of the wrinkly no-hoper to its current status as a hip , healthy snack lies an absorbing tale of modern marketing . |
| 15 | Dorothy Newman nudged her fellow conspirator back to reality , then they ran at breakneck speed to their respective homes . |
| 16 | ‘ I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should , in a cowardly manner , become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour . ’ |
| 17 | The greetings — ‘ with love , Father ’ and ‘ to a dear Daddy ’ — had an empty , hollow ring to them five Christmases later . |
| 18 | The verb metaphor is further characterized by the fact that it has no direct link to its proper term , but acts on the noun of which it is the predicate ; in the case of the transitive verb it can also act on its direct and indirect objects . |
| 19 | In Tanganyika there were few settlers in the country , no evident injuries had been done , and the Masai , with their conspicuous but unbelligerent attachment to their traditional way of life , were perceived from the start simply as a rather interesting problem in administration . |
| 20 | Edward 's cup of troubles was yet to overflow : Scottish resistance to his dynastic claims burst into open warfare from 1295 to 1298 and smouldered and crackled until the end of the reign . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , Ellie , you do know , ’ he said quietly , in direct contrast to her stormy denial , ‘ and I can either believe that the letters were used merely as a passport for something else , or you are indeed a calculating little bitch intent only on causing pain . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Lotta did inform me , ’ she returned , her cool voice in direct contrast to her flushed complexion . |
| 23 | The Sex Pistols apparently instant recognition was in direct contrast to their original plan to build a new Bay City Rollers . |
| 24 | He has never ceased to use his career at the Met as a touchstone for such later projects as editor-in-chief of Connoisseur Magazine and several ‘ inside scoop ’ books on the art world ranging from Tutankhamen : The Untold Story to his early years as a curator of the Met 's medieval department and his purchase of the ‘ Bury St Edmunds Cross ’ ( King of the Confessors ) . |
| 25 | Spittals even managed to impart a patronising rustle to his whirring hands . |
| 26 | But Karen 's sexual behaviour was in marked contrast to her rigid conventionality in all else . |
| 27 | The brilliance of the blue and gold morning , the fragrance of fresh-ground coffee , the tranquil pool and bewitching glimpse of blue sea beyond — it was all in marked contrast to her bleak mood . |
| 28 | The tone of the speech was in marked contrast to his fierce attack on the United States on Feb. 6 [ see p. 38024 ] . |
| 29 | The enormous rise in the economic value of her work has developed in tandem with the increased critical and popular response to her particular blend of naive style and incisive content . |
| 30 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |