Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [adv] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of the hybrid model is that the courts retain some control over the regulatory rules in the sense that they are not bound to give effect to them rather than the general law if they are considered unreasonable . |
| 2 | As a legal precedent section 2(5) of the 1981 Education Act was significant because it was addressed directly to governing bodies and assigned a primary role to them rather than the local authorities . |
| 3 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 4 | Simple arithmetic will show that if you wish the examiner to appreciate your answer you must present it to him so that the minimum time is required for reading , assessing and marking . |
| 5 | Outside the cottage door was a huge , ominous-looking shell which we were told had been fired from a battleship during World War I ; and John pointed out to us exactly where the Royal Oak had been torpedoed in 1939 . |
| 6 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 7 | However , to take the first point first , the Chinese concepts appear concrete to us only because the inquiring outsider , unlike the insider who habitually thinks with them , needs to fix his attention on their metaphorical roots . |