Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comic disruption becomes a much needed gesture of resistance to prevailing conditions in America . |
| 2 | In order to encourage the winter tourist industry , it had a winter fair featuring exhibitions of interest to farmers , and many winter sport events . |
| 3 | Richard , however , had already made overtures of friendship to the Sicilian king and cemented this by giving him a rich and generous gift — Excalibur , the magical sword of King Arthur . |
| 4 | Some names have already been mentioned but it is possible to think of so many : of Mr Tommy and Mr Bobbie Reynolds and their work in choir and Sunday School , of the dignified and gracious figures of Mr and Mrs T H Watson ( parents of the Reverend George Watson ) , of Mr W A Mullen DL and his son Mr Cecil Mullen , generous and energetic benefactors of the church in so many ways , of Mr R J Magowan OBE JP for over 40 years secretary of the Trustees , of the brothers Mr Herbie and Mr David McClatchey , their service as Trustees and members of the choir , of Mr David Lyttle , Mr Norman Lyttle and Mr Sammy Lyttle , active in all aspects of the church 's life but especially concerned with choir and Sunday Schools of Mr Willie Holmes and his daughters Winnie and Amy , of Mr David Lamb and his family , of Mr Twinem Jackson , who , with Mr Magowan , still had time to give years of public service to the community at large in Portadown , of Mr C J McKinley , concerned with the Building Fund over the years and Superintendent of the morning Sunday School from 1943 to the 1960s , of Mrs Sleator with her wholehearted love for the church and for people , of Mr Bertie Montgomery , always cheerful and serene , who , among so many other things , began the practice of taping the services for the benefit of the elderly and housebound , of M Alfred Shortt and his long and generous association with the Sunday School , or Mr Dan Humphries , helping over the years with the church 's finances , of members of the Calvert and Hardy families and of those who , belonging to other Societies , nevertheless gave years of service to Edenderry — Mr Sam Robinson , Mr Joseph Cranston , Mr John Curry , Mr James Mullen , Mr W J Green , Mr Isaac Holland , Mr Eric Walker , and Mr William Bustard . |
| 5 | ‘ Donkeys , Janet , ’ Gwendolen trilled again , but the will to fight had left her , and she easily ceded place of honour to Samuel . |
| 6 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) Cinema has always given primacy of place to images . |
| 8 | Like ET 's glowing gorge , John 's pate is a highly sensitive register of mood , flashing through deeply charged shades of pink to a beef tomato red , luridly offset by the pure white beard . |
| 9 | Until recently , a salmon farm inhibited fishing in Skeltar , but this enterprise has since ended and salmon once more have freedom of access to their traditional spawning grounds . |
| 10 | Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension . |
| 11 | The [ draft ] FRS also requires appropriations of profit to be shown in the profit and loss account equivalent to the value of shares issued in respect of scrip dividends . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the order relates to the working papers of the auditors of Atlantic and not simply to Atlantic itself but these papers could clearly contain information of relevance to the administrator 's investigation even if that information could not have been obtained in litigation against Atlantic . |
| 13 | US-government-funded research has also linked fluoridation of water to an increase in osteosarcoma , a bone cancer . |
| 14 | This moral incongruency can draw attention to , and throw light upon , the very process of moralizing and the role of literature therein ; which indeed are themselves well evidenced and clearly focused aspects of twelfth- to fourteenth- century intellectual speculation . |
| 15 | And Bell also brought tubs of emotion to Erasure — the longing of the astonishing ‘ Oh L'Amour ’ , the raging of ‘ Respect ’ , the sheer Swedishness of ‘ Take A Chance On Me ’ . |
| 16 | Through his service under the war treasurers back in 1642 , he had also become man of business to Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , and served conscientiously as an executor of the ex-lord general 's encumbered estate after his death in 1646 . |
| 17 | However , her categorisation is unprincipled in the sense that it does not really relate types of metaphor to each other , and is thus no more than a typology of poetic examples . |
| 18 | Indeed , sites which were generally successful often attracted organs of government to them , as was the case with the cities and major towns , but in these and other instances it is always difficult to distinguish the primary function once it has been overlaid or mixed with others . |
| 19 | Proposals typically contained statements of commitment to the development of the individual child , acknowledgement of the central position of the library and its resources in the curriculum provision of the school , and a willingness to establish an appropriate administrative and physical infrastructure for the successful implementation of the project . |
| 20 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |
| 21 | Therefore some support can be given at relatively little cost to oneself , and without really testing feelings of duty to their limits . |
| 22 | But thanks to pioneering research here at the John Radcliffe hospital , often involving transfusions of blood to the unborn baby , these children have survived . |
| 23 | As a student of child abuse , I regularly encountered forms of cruelty to children I hardly thought were possible . |
| 24 | The conduct struck at by section 19 was made an offence in the 1965 legislation , and was a more frequently prosecuted form of incitement to racial hatred than the utterance of words . |
| 25 | Frodo is saved from his sin by his own earlier repeated acts of forgiveness to Gollum , but in a sense punished by the loss of his finger . |
| 26 | It seems illogical to require response to a treaty which adversely effects a third State , as in the instance of a territorial settlement when the third State also has a claim , and yet to regard lack of protest to an evolving principle of customary international law as acquiescence to it . |
| 27 | This view of prose narrative is rather different from the one implied in the Anglo-American tradition which , in its reading of fiction has systematically subordinated questions of ryuzhet to questions of realism . |