Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] to the [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 | ‘ It requires a continuous programme of selling themselves to the Catholic community . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Erm he 'll erm if they accept it it 'll it 'll stand a chance of getting them to the main group . |
| 9 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 10 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 11 | Nurses can help all patients by talking with them , keeping in mind the objective of orienting them to the new environment and routine . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yes , he 'd bring Ma to the fête , by way of introducing her to the new life . |