Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 2 | It must have seemed clear to him that the Frankish advance could not be stopped by armed opposition , for he ceded to Charles all the territories gained across the Pyrenees . |
| 3 | After the war it became clear to her that the one heroic thing she was even faintly equipped to do with her life was to teach herself to die honourably , by which she meant without fear . |
| 4 | It is clear to her that the old ropes are still being pulled by the new masters . |
| 5 | Although he refrained from endorsing any of his Democratic rivals , he sought to retract some of his recent attacks upon them , stating that " I have exercised political hyperbole on occasion and called them unelectable , but with each passing day it is clear to me that the only unelectable politician running for office is George Bush " . |
| 6 | When my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and I visited some European capitals and Washington , it was clear to us that the whole character of the theory of nuclear strategy was under review . |
| 7 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 8 | It seemed incongruous to them that the sweet teenager they knew was not only surviving life in the toughest of all trades . |
| 9 | perhaps the assignment is not appropriate to them but the managing partner of the search firm may well feel that he or she has potential to be an executive search consultant . |
| 10 | I could comfort myself , especially at night , by recalling the sights and scenery of Abyssinia , far more real to me than the cold bleak English downs behind the school . |
| 11 | He said the inquiry , carried out under terms unique to it and the Equal Opportunities Commission , had been formally initiated last month and could last up to a year . |
| 12 | As she walked from the Underground to St Basil 's Terrace Ianthe noticed that curtains had appeared in the windows of the house nearly opposite to hers where the new arrival had moved in . |
| 13 | The idea is simply not credible to me that the British people will be able to exert their will through a European Parliament on such matters as , for instance , how many people from beyond their shores will be able to settle here or whether taxes should be lowered — thus halting , perhaps , some road-building programme in Greece — or whether Britain should continue to maintain her close links across the Atlantic . |
| 14 | The commendable objectives were ( i ) to present private investors with a document which they might find more helpful to them than the full statutory accounts , ( ii ) to reduce an appalling waste of paper , since undoubtedly a great many such investors consign the glossy brochures containing the accounts ( ii ) to their waste-paper baskets after only the most cursory of glances ( if any ) and , perhaps , ( iii ) to reduce the company 's postage — though it is unlikely that any saving on that could be commensurate with the cost of preparing an additional document and , in effect , having it audited . |
| 15 | Clearly it will be most helpful to us if the responsible people for the teaching of a course themselves fill in the details . |
| 16 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 17 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 18 | Slowly Michael Ramsey began to realize that the eternal verities were more important to him than the political excitements . |
| 19 | As he says : ‘ The first game against Fiji was very important to us and the first try we scored ( by fullback Scott Stewart on a return pass from left wing Steve Gray ) was incredibly important . |
| 20 | In fact , since you buy a computer to solve problems , and not just to look good on a desk , the software available might be more important to you than the particular machine bought . |
| 21 | Male dysfunction due to fear or anxiety about such a condition is much more likely to be responsible ; and female dysfunction or dissatisfaction is often mistakenly thought to be due to it when the true causes lie elsewhere . |
| 22 | It had not seemed possible to him that the fair creature could still be alive , for messages from native sources had indicated that Krishnapur had been invested since the beginning of June . |
| 23 | It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not . |
| 24 | He continued to use the coupling after it had become apparent to him that the locking mechanism of the coupling was broken . |
| 25 | The allegations made are deeply offensive to us and the entire Pakistani team . |
| 26 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 27 | It is inexplicable to me that the Labour party would wish to stop this continuing and successful experiment . |
| 28 | An appeal to the House of Lords was the only avenue left open to him after the High Court rejected his bid to overturn the decision and then , in December , the Court of Appeal refused his application for a judicial review . |
| 29 | The animal and vegetal poles define the main axis of the embryo and the first two cleavages are parallel to it while the third is always at right angles to it . |
| 30 | In fact given the , what 's happened politically in what was Czechoslovakia and is now the Czech Lands and Slovakia , erm and the financial pressures in Slovakia it 's not certain to me that the whole arrangement will go forward . |