Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 2 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 3 | However , currently , unlike her husband she has no automatic rights to additional dependency benefits for her children and , unless her husband is incapable of paid employment , she gets no extra benefit for him either . |
| 4 | It must pay to reach the point at which the marginal benefit to one of you equals the marginal cost to the other . |
| 5 | An individual 's attitude to the question of the political context in which the legal system operates will depend on whether he or she takes a supportive attitude to the political status quo or wishes to challenge it . |
| 6 | whether he should kiss Rose , the wife of the man he is on his way to see , when she opens the front door to him ; |
| 7 | She throws a meaningful look to the two masseuses . |
| 8 | Their daughter , Georgiana , is a pathetic creature , utterly crushed by the magnificence of her parents ; she falls an easy prey to the Lammles ' schemes to marry her off to Fledgeby , but is saved at the last moment by a change of heart on Mrs Lammle 's part . |
| 9 | She presents a broken tea-cup to the landlord , who charges four pence for whisky . |
| 10 | But now she pays a monthly fee to the Miraflores municipality . |
| 11 | Instead , now she gives a visual expression to Enya 's achingly lonely melodies , songs of prayers , dreams and longings echoing a child 's spiritual innocence . |
| 12 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 13 | She remains an inspiring example to be remembered and talked of with fondness and good humour . |
| 14 | Now , there is an added urgency to her shots and she remains an unlikely threat to both grass court opponents and , ( following her victory in the 1990 French Open and her re-appearance in the final again this year ) , clay court specialists . |
| 15 | By avoiding simplistic assumptions about the united male medical profession manipulating supine female patients , she makes a major contribution to our understanding of a complex part of medical history . |
| 16 | But roots will out and this month she makes a triumphal re-entry to SoHo in a former high-ceilinged , window-fronted exercise studio directly across from the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street . |
| 17 | To do this , they need to work out what their partner is doing , when for example , he or she lifts an empty cup to their lips , or tilts an empty teapot above the cup . |
| 18 | According to the Unemployment Unit 's calculations including them takes the jobless total to more than three million . |
| 19 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 20 | From the end of the road at Bracorina , a track continues along the lochside to South Tarbet Bay where it crosses a narrow isthmus to Tarbet on Loch Nevis . |
| 21 | Achmore is entered and from it goes a narrow road to Plockton and Kyle of Lochalsh on a journey of sustained delight . |
| 22 | It goes the opposite way to this . |
| 23 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 24 | In his buoyant narrative style , his particularly exact , observant eye for detail , his confident concentration on a particular event coloured by emotion but not by an intensity of analysis , he offers a significant contrast to Conrad 's dense , probing accounts of similar events . |
| 25 | I am not sure how accurately that can be measured , but it represents a substantial cost to the NHS , which the hon. Member for Eccles compared , in my view rightly , with the large sums of money that the European Community still commits to subsidising tobacco production , against which we have argued vehemently in Brussels . |
| 26 | We want to lay emphasis on the concept of community education : it represents a whole attitude to education which makes science , maths and all the other subjects students learn , meaningful by relating them to the real experiences of life outside school . |
| 27 | It represents an important contribution to the ongoing debate between non-disabled feminists and the disabled people 's movement about the construction of community care . |
| 28 | It represents the logical conclusion to preceding buildings and is the expression of national culture ; it stands for the essence of Muscovite Christianity in Russia and was the last great church of the movement in this architectural form . |
| 29 | Moreover , it displays a political sensitivity to local authority and community plans . |
| 30 | His lordship is of the view , as indeed I am myself , that while Father is allowed to continue with his present round of duties , he represents an ever-present threat to the smooth running of this household , and in particular to next week 's important international gathering . ’ |