Example sentences of "to [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To them must belong the last word . |
| 2 | Viola 's right leg ( stockinged ) and a frizz of her pubic hair next to his would show the discerning viewer what was going on . |
| 3 | As a member of one of the two departments into which the direction politique of the foreign ministry was then divided , he found that he and his colleagues spent much of their time playing draughts and that there was considerable rivalry between the two as to which could make the better " five o'clock tea " . |
| 4 | What is involved here is , in effect , a direct and apparently irreconcilable clash between sex and gender identity , as to which should determine the sexual profile of the individual . |
| 5 | If individuals are allowed to pursue their self-interest , if prices are allowed to respond to changes in information and if players in the game have the assurance that there exists a rule of law which guarantees their contracts , the market economy left to itself will secure the best outcome for society as a whole . |
| 6 | A rather sophisticated version of this view is that RMI represents a legitimisation of the tension and debate between managers and clinicians as to who shall have the dominant perspective . |
| 7 | Abbess Aelfflaed 's question to Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , as to who would succeed the childless Ecgfrith need not imply that she had otherwise forgotten about Aldfrith 's existence , but rather that she was testing Cuthbert to ascertain that his loyalties lay in the right place . |
| 8 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 9 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 10 | I have what to you may seem a small problem but one for which I can find no reason . |
| 11 | If you wanted to you could work a few more rows of stocking stitch and just put in a single row of holes again , but for our practise piece it is better to carry on and make more holes . |
| 12 | There are 5–8 pointed arm spines ; the second ventralmost spine and some of those dorsal to it may have a small distally directed terminal hook . |
| 13 | On the other hand , forcing such a language on men and women not born to it can have the perverse effect of increasing the number of languages . |
| 14 | In the meantime the only guidance as to what would constitute an acceptable limit on Article 8(1) rights is the rather equivocal decision in the Klass case which concerned the operation of surveillance procedures in the German Federal Republic where legislation authorized telephone-tapping and other surveillance techniques if a number of conditions were satisfied . |
| 15 | Where there are no established rules to guide decision we must make a direct judgement as to what will have the best consequences , concentrating on the more immediate and those we are personally most motivated to promote , as the remote future is highly unpredictable and we are unlikely to do much to promote what is not personally inviting . |
| 16 | At least your writing to us may prevent the same thing happening to another reader . |