Example sentences of "[adv] in a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susanna Wesley herself , mother of John and Charles , puts this plainly enough in a letter to John : |
| 2 | It 's clear that the many non-party political groups which sprang up in the wake of the election , bodies such as Common Cause and Scotland United , are now prepared to work together in a coalition to stage further events highlighting the deficiencies of the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 3 | Finally in a letter to Bonamy Dobrée — dated by Dobrée " about March 1929 " — he made a number of supercilious remarks about the Jews . |
| 4 | On two occasions he used the word " Jew " as a pejorative adjective — once in a letter to John Quinn , dated 12 March 1923 , and once in a letter to Ezra Pound , dated 31 October 1917 . |
| 5 | On two occasions he used the word " Jew " as a pejorative adjective — once in a letter to John Quinn , dated 12 March 1923 , and once in a letter to Ezra Pound , dated 31 October 1917 . |
| 6 | ‘ I must not omit to tell you , ’ wrote Gould nonchalantly in a letter to Jardine on 16 January 1837 , ‘ that Mr Darwin 's Collection of Birds ( made during the late survey under Capn FitzRoy ) are exceedingly fine ; they are placed in my hands to describe ; some of the forms are very singular particularly those from the Gallipagos [ sic ] . |
| 7 | So important is this factor in shaping the evolution of man that Freud , in a number of places in his works , 9 but principally in a footnote to Civilization and its Discontents , comments at length on the way in which the adoption of an erect posture in man produced what he termed an ‘ organic repression ’ which paved the way for civilization . |
| 8 | The plan was put forward in a letter to Cardinal Amleto Cicognani , Secretary of State , dated 18 October 1962 , when the Council was barely a week old ( L'Osservatore Romano , 26 January 1984 , or Hebblethwaite , 1984 pp. 442–4 ) . |
| 9 | When he pleaded the case for continued co-operation with the Russians , at first privately in a letter to Truman and then openly in a public speech , the President , dismissed him . |