Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 2 | To them it represented infinite riches , well worth committing murder for . |
| 3 | ‘ When Edwards spoke to me we discussed other football matters , such as Webb leaving , Mark Hughes might be going and United returning with an increased bid for Hirst . |
| 4 | As British Governments of both colours have failed the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus , to whom they undertook certain responsibilities under the constitution of 1960 and the treaty of guarantee , would not it be advisable for the Government to be a bit more sensitive to the concerns of the Turkish Cypriots who do not want to see — under whatever agreement , which may be too favourable to the Greek Cypriots — a return to the situation in the 1960s ? |
| 5 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 6 | De Quincey was more or less in hiding from Edinburgh people to whom he owed large sums of money , so Glasgow , a thriving and blackening metropolis of 365 , 000 souls , was the ideal place in which to eat your opium and keep your head down . |
| 7 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 8 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 9 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 10 | In fact , in regard to whom it allowed free entry into Britain , the 1971 Act differed mainly in the words used . |
| 11 | Repeated failures in fostering are obviously very damaging to a child to whom it means repeated rejection . |
| 12 | The company , which has been in the hands of receivers since February , faces the prospect of its production lines halting after a judge refused to rule that a crucial supplier , to whom it owes large sums of money , was legally obliged to continue providing vital components . |
| 13 | The inductivist wishes to make a fairly sharp distinction between direct observation , which he hopes will form a secure foundation for scientific knowledge , and theories , which are to be justified by the extent to which they receive inductive support from the secure observational foundation . |
| 14 | It is worth noting that such important modern choreographers as Kurt Jooss and Martha Graham and the leader of the Dance Theatre of Harlem , George Mitchell , insisted that their dancershave knowledge of some school of classical technique , to which they added other exercises to develop the flexibility of their dancers ' bodies , athletic qualities and an ability to explore more thoroughly the space around them in all its dimensions . |
| 15 | In other words , just as people differ in extraversion , intelligence , and proneness to anxiety so , too , do they differ in the extent to which they show psychotic characteristics . |
| 16 | Cultures vary in the degree to which they take sexual deviance as a serious sin or crime , but all control sexuality in some way . |
| 17 | They have explored the extent to which they reflected mass aspirations and their role in the political outcome of the revolution . |
| 18 | Transactions differ in the strains they place on decision-making ability , the scope they give for opportunism , and the degree to which they involve human dignity . |
| 19 | The secret meeting organised by MPs Tim Devlin and Michael Bates , to which they invited selected headteachers to discuss opting out , drags the education debate down into the gutter of political furtiveness and secrecy . |
| 20 | He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) . |
| 21 | It was this biotic aspect of human behaviour to which they gave special attention in trying to understand how populations and individuals adapted to one another and how this sorting process resulted in spatial distributions of social groups . |
| 22 | We followed up the representations that were made by the hon. Lady and by others on that point , and the regional offices of the Department of Employment have been in negotiation with TECs to try to establish the extent to which they need additional resources to meet the YT guarantee . |
| 23 | For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy . |
| 24 | The extent to which we aggregate individual units in this way depends of course on the purpose at hand . |
| 25 | There were the Bingley summer courses , and those at Grantley to which we invited professional painters to meet and work with West Riding teachers . |
| 26 | He considers that many occurrences of phenomena to which we give diverse names like UFOs , ghosts , will-o-the-wisps , and apparitions of various sorts , may all be manifestations of earth lights . |
| 27 | The central drives are those to which we gave considerable prominence at the start of this book , and are those associated with survival and identity , as well as with the preservation and expansion of family , kin and blood relations . |
| 28 | Most people do not make their position explicit , partly at least because this is still one of the many questions to which we have uncertain answers . |
| 29 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 30 | In analysing the ideology of the underground , recent work has underlined the extent to which it reflected social change and popular pressure within Russia . |