Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to my neighbour on the other side , this apartment contained something very unusual in the way of leggy redheads . |
| 2 | Well , to get to my concept of the legal definition in this State , there 's no question that he was . |
| 3 | This analogy is in every way applicable to my concept of the stratigraphical column . |
| 4 | I walked back to my sock in the thin rain . |
| 5 | Obviously , I did not receive an answer to my question from the Scottish Office and , even under the priority written procedure , I have not yet received an answer from the Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 6 | That was due to my enthusiasm for the excellent achievements of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at Maastricht . |
| 7 | I would go to my chamber on the same gallery as poor Cosmas and , of course , notice something was wrong . |
| 8 | ‘ I have sent them to my brother in the Northern Capital until you solve this for us . ’ |
| 9 | In the book I quote a letter from my father when I was at Cambridge , and I remember talking to my father about the National Gallery as early as 1928 . |
| 10 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 11 | I climb up to my room from the small courtyard by a steep wooden ladder and stoop through the doorway , as I must through all the doorways here . |
| 12 | AS AN addendum to Mr Robson 's letter ( HAS February 24 ) , last year I did what we are always urged to do I wrote to my MP with the self same complaint . |
| 13 | Ed , — Thank you very much for sending the LINK magazine to my husband for the past few years . |
| 14 | This was most forcefully brought to my attention during the formative stages of a literature-search project conducted by an associate and myself . |
| 15 | I take a political position according to my belief in the particular issue , and it never coincides in respect of more than one issue with that of any particular party . |
| 16 | ( The retention of the single ground-line for the Centauromachy is probably due to its adaptation to the narrow field of the vase-neck ; other reminiscences of the same picture do show broken ground . ) |
| 17 | Eugenics owes its specific place in our history to its influence on the emergent pedagogy of sex education . |
| 18 | Having done that , it reaches one leg across to its equivalent on the other side , removes the accumulated pollen from the comb with a stiff brush that sprouts from the end of the leg and transfers it into a deep bowl lying on the outer surface of the opposite thigh . |
| 19 | In splendid confirmation of Vine and Matthews 's hypothesis , it was found that the age of each sample was proportional to its distance from the mid-ocean ridge . |
| 20 | As a result of these specific , socially constructed functions : ‘ Speech is often evaluated socially according to its closeness to the written language , which explains why standard spoken English is probably closer to written English than is any other spoken variety . |
| 21 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment . |
| 22 | Observers agree that the soft drink sector is an altogether better bet for the company , which in addition to its strong Schweppes brands has added most of Perrier 's non-water brands and the best-selling Euro-brand Gini to its portfolio in the past two years . |
| 23 | Each remaining party is allotted a number of the Bundestag 's 496 seats proportionate to its share of the amended overall total of votes . |
| 24 | That purchase added around 3 percentage points to its share of the liquid milk market , taking it to 16 per cent , where it is now snapping at the heels of the second-largest operator , Dairy Crest , the marketing subsidiary of the MMB , which claims a market share of around 17 per cent . |
| 25 | Each party 's entitlement of seats should be proportionate to its share of the total constituency votes received by candidates of all parties , and it would be met by the award ( if necessary ) of a number of additional seats so calculated as to " redress the distorted results in the constituencies " . |
| 26 | The sum of each party 's constituency members and additional members is proportionate to its share of the party-list votes , which are consequently the votes that determine the political composition of the Bundestag . |
| 27 | Having discussed the report with the client and explained the procedural rules relating to expert evidence , you must obtain the client 's express consent to its disclosure to the other side . |
| 28 | One path to go down might begin from the priority the Council had given to its knowledge of the particular institutions : ‘ it seems that we should now begin to build even more positively on this and consider a move in which certain institutions were granted particular responsibilities … the academic board in an experienced institution engaging in work of high quality should be authorized by the Council to reach decisions in defined areas ’ , and within understood frameworks of report and action . |
| 29 | It should be Christians , and not only Marxists , who assert that capitalism too easily turns a blind eye to its exploitation of the Third World . |
| 30 | EF-1α catalyzes the binding of aminoacyl-tRNAs to ribosomes concomitant with the hydrolysis of GTP , while EF-1β β'; γ catalyzes the exchange of GTP for GDP bound to EF-1α subsequent to its release from the ribosome and stimulates the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to ribosomes . |