Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 2 | In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops . |
| 3 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 4 | There is great potential in the land around the port in Belfast and it is important that , when that land is sold , it is sold to a company capable of developing it to the best advantage of the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Cutting the glass is simply a matter of scoring it to the required size with a glass cutter . |
| 6 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 7 | ‘ It requires a continuous programme of selling themselves to the Catholic community . |
| 8 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 9 | Erm he 'll erm if they accept it it 'll it 'll stand a chance of getting them to the main group . |
| 10 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 11 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 12 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 14 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 15 | Nurses can help all patients by talking with them , keeping in mind the objective of orienting them to the new environment and routine . |
| 16 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 17 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 19 | He was wary of identifying himself to the French people as a " democrat " at a time when democracy was equated with the detested Third Republic . |
| 20 | Yes , he 'd bring Ma to the fête , by way of introducing her to the new life . |
| 21 | well , not to come in the next , but rather to you know , sort of leave it to a higher justice if you like . |
| 22 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 23 | Beck suggests that we have an automatic style of thinking which to a large extent determines the conclusions we derive from experience . |
| 24 | And all the undertakings we might speak of reduce themselves to a single one , that of making history . |