Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the contrast between his assurance on this subject , and the somewhat sketchy framework of his opinions on matters more central to his strictly archiepiscopal duties , reveals the continuity of his personal life in the midst of the upheavals of his new responsibilities . |
| 2 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 3 | I could not have gone without her goodwill , as it could have been injurious to her already poor health . |
| 4 | But social purity was also able to mine very deep fears of a more secular kind . |
| 5 | Bureaucratic skills were becoming as important to it as commercial flair , and the change of scale was introducing economists and businessmen to the idea of centralized planning . |
| 6 | He is alive and under follow up surgery was not deemed appropriate due to his generally weak condition . |
| 7 | There is absolutely no need for young people to commit crimes when they have available to them perfectly good training courses that have been provided by the Government and with Government money . |
| 8 | There is open to us only one course of action : we must quit the Confederation , consolidate and centralise our own power . |
| 9 | The bath water was brownish , but wonderfully soothing to her quite remarkable display of bruises . |