Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his will , made as a parishioner of St Olave Jewry , London , dated 7 January , and proved 28 February 1633 , he made monetary bequests to his four daughters and two sons , allowed the use of his professional papers to his apprentices , and gave a two-volume book of statutes to ‘ my noble friend Sir William Paddy [ q.v. ] … to be by him put and given to the library of St John 's College in Oxford ’ . |
| 2 | In the spring of 1915 Prime Minister Asquith declared to the House of Commons that the continued enlistment of British sailors , the internment of enemy aliens and the recall of allied seamen to their own countries had reduced the maritime labour force to 85 per cent of its pre-war strength . |
| 3 | The Green Paper concluded by inviting reactions to its two outline proposals by the end of November 1981 , reactions which were very soon forthcoming . |
| 4 | But in its stupid quest for short-term solutions to our economic woes , the Government is prepared to lose this precious heritage for ever . |
| 5 | She sees through his unctuous manners to his black-hearted designs , and shoots him on the spot , but it too late , and she is surrounded by Kuomintang forces . |
| 6 | Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 7 | I think Dysart is feeding commercial secrets to his old skipper , Charlie Mallender , and that Clare found out about it . |
| 8 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 9 | On extended trips to their native land they produced vigorous and fluent drawings and sketches of their dramatic and mountainous country using all their collected expertise to capture and convey that image or Norway by which we know it today . |
| 10 | Davis , who had a break of 71 , commented : ‘ I had to adopt totally different tactics to my last match . |
| 11 | He was nothing if not open-minded , adapting English ingredients to his own purposes and forever exercising his gift for fantasy . |
| 12 | The lives of other creatures span very different periods to our three score years and ten . |
| 13 | Along the north scarp of the Downs runs a series of parishes with land evenly distributed from the foot , and across the different soils to their northern boundaries . |
| 14 | From her sensible shoes to her practical haircut , her appearance proclaims her membership of that generation of British women who survived the privations of wartime and went on to spend their lives in ungrumbling toil creating the now tarnished Jerusalem of the Welfare State . |
| 15 | Brockwell Yarns are introducing some new and exciting colours to their wonderful range of yarns . |
| 16 | You can forget those laughable , knee-jerk comparisons to My Bloody Valentine , for starters . |
| 17 | It is therefore important for the peace movement to penetrate and politicise the apparently technical arguments of the ‘ experts ’ , and to demonstrate that there is no technical inevitability , but they are social problems to which human solutions can and must be found . |
| 18 | Though its accounts of individual poems are as searching as anything in Davie 's earlier books ( we owe Carcanet a debt : this is to be the first in a uniform edition of Davie 's work ) , Under Briggflatts is also a mordant and compelling history of the social climates to which these poems were a response . |
| 19 | One of the outstanding problems for conservationists these days , is to reconcile the different uses to which human beings aspire to put the oceans . |
| 20 | He gives fresh orders to his nearest cut-off group to redeploy rapidly . |
| 21 | But whereas those first person narrators are fairly transparent surrogates for the implied authors of those novels , the first-person narrators of modernist texts are more ambiguous , less reliable witnesses to their own experience , and are often framed by or counterpointed with other narrators — as , for example , in Henry James 's The Turn of the Screw or Conrad 's Heart of Darkness . |
| 22 | During his honeymoon , Yeats was addressing heart-broken verses to his lost love — who by this time was an amalgam of Maud and her daughter . |
| 23 | IT IS typical of the contrary nature of things that just as the impression grows that Rangers will progress inevitably to a higher plane and leave lesser sides to their own devices , along come Airdrie , all skint knees and sweat , to sow a couple of doubts . |
| 24 | Imagine that there are two very different sides to your own character , and write a short description of each . |
| 25 | Moreover , notwithstanding the different degrees to which individual teachers appeared to have taken on board the implications for progressive pedagogies , we believe that a substantial improvement in teachers ' awareness of the potential of the library as a central resource , and of the development of information-handling skills entailed therein , was a real consequence of the project in this school . |
| 26 | The problems surrounding the meaning of consent and different approaches to its proper scope will now be examined in greater detail . |
| 27 | They spend the week polishing , cleaning and painting … restoring the old locomotives to their former glory and doing essential trackwork . |
| 28 | The boys make far fewer direct references to their own responses . |
| 29 | The men claimed that they were willing to hold the trenches but not to advance against German machine-guns to their certain death . |
| 30 | In the standard Keynesian view of macroeconomics such a policy will soften the fluctuations in real output and other real variables to which any economy is prone and which are due to fluctuations in private-sector spending . |