Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He received from one of those organisations , the Board of Guardians , food , clothing , a little money to tide him over the worst first weeks , and the address of a family who would provide a room and warmth . |
| 2 | Perhaps you will have a part-time job and a small capital reserve to tide you over the lean years until the farm is pulling its weight . |
| 3 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
| 4 | The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit . |
| 5 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 6 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
| 7 | from the main box one to mains one to the outside |
| 8 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |
| 9 | Even so , I had been surprised when he agreed to back me on the amateur circuit for one year after I left the university . |
| 10 | The decentralization towards the old industrial periphery marked a shift of jobs back to regions which since the 1930s had had dramatically higher unemployment rates than elsewhere . |
| 11 | He regularly went to the pictures to gorge himself upon the facial close-ups of the movie queens , while he surreptitiously masturbated . |
| 12 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 13 | Hers is a vulnerable yet crucial role as negotiator between difference : typically she is one who refuses to outcast herself from the black community and family , because aware of its value and importance , yet by virtue of that same tact subjected within them to sexual discrimination : ‘ we straddle the fence that says we can not be uplifters of the race and lesbians at the same time ’ ( ‘ Talking about It ’ , 54 ) . |
| 14 | Using this last possibility , Spenser implies that the English acting firmly against Ireland might demonstrate that they have purified the fault which was going to cause Ireland to scourge them in the first place , namely a tameness in executing God 's designs against savage immorality . |
| 15 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 16 | To date none of the various definitions of level have been widely accepted . |
| 17 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 18 | Where the problem arises is in the comparatively rare situation in which an adult patient declines to consent to treatment which in the clinical judgment of those attending him is necessary if irreparable damage is not to be done to his health or , in some cases , if his life is to be saved . |
| 19 | They deny their own law , denying my right , and the precedent is there to stead them in the next encroachment . |
| 20 | The National Railway Museum has a varied programme of events to interest everyone over the half-term holiday from Saturday October 24 until Sunday November 1 . |
| 21 | If you are interested in fine eighteenth-century furniture , in hooked rugs or in quilting , in mushroom arm-chairs or in Duncan Phyfe , in Shakers or in the West , in cracker barrels or in ‘ Borning Rooms ’ , you will find something to interest you at the American Museum in Britain . |
| 22 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |
| 23 | Whatever your taste , there 's bound to be something to interest you among the 3 collections of cigarette cards up for auction at Phillips in Oxford . |