Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything points to a victory for the conservatives , except their inability to make the most of their advantages . |
| 2 | Hospital executive David Brown , 32 , could suffer 100 strokes from a six foot bamboo cane if his attempt to have the harsh ruling reversed fails . |
| 3 | Since my appointment to chair the Working Group I had seen Mr Baker only on one occasion . |
| 4 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 5 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 6 | Certainly I did not regard it as my job to defend the departmental budget just because it was the departmental budget . |
| 7 | Old Testament kings had regarded it as their duty to protect the poor , and King David , to whom were attributed all the psalms in Charlemagne 's time , was considered very opposed to usury ( for example , Psalm 15 : ‘ Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? . |
| 8 | In 1849 Holford purchased the freehold of the old Dorchester House , with its 100 yards of frontage to Park Lane : he chose Lewis Vulliamy [ q.v. ] as his architect to design the Italianate palazzo he planned for the site . |