Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody mentioned this to me the other day |
| 2 | It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign . |
| 3 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 4 | Employers will , of course , want to make clear to you the level of personal responsibility you will be expected to take within the remit of your job description ( for a sample job description , see chapter 2 ) , but this does n't necessarily mean that they are trying to warn off the less confident . |
| 5 | Why , it is in the power of Jesus to whom all authority in heaven and earth is entrusted ; this Jesus is with them always in their mission , to the end of the age ; and naturally , therefore , they baptise men not only into the possession , the ‘ name ’ , of God the Father and the Lord Jesus , but into the sphere of that Holy Spirit who makes real to them the presence of the risen Christ , and empowers them for their work of making him known ( Matt. 28:18–20 ) . |
| 6 | He 'd been damned rude to her the night before , not to say insulting . |
| 7 | Knowledge of the extent of this variation is required , especially on what are likely to he the worst conditions , and if possible sampling should be done in the winter and spring in the British Isles , when the run-off after rain tends to be heavy , as well as in the summer . |
| 8 | People often turn from fiction to biography as they get older , I expect because the real world comes to seem more mysterious and more valuable to them the closer they come to leaving it . |
| 9 | Lord Reid delivered the leading opinion in the House of Lords and he stated the general principles in fatal accidents claims as follows at p217 : They [ the dependants ] are entitled to such a sum as will make good to them the financial loss which they have suffered and will suffer as a result of the death . |
| 10 | Again one could draw as it were a sort of a picture of erm one 's true self as a sort of largish lump , er much of which was the body and then within this smaller portion which is the soul , and within that a still smaller portion which is the mind , and then in all of us there is present to us the one , and we 're told that we ought to think about our body , that it is not our true self . |
| 11 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 12 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 13 | Even if it is a sort of solution to the problem it is unlikely to he the simplest or the cheapest . |
| 14 | Our success is due to you the readers , whose loyalty and support has made it all possible . |
| 15 | Obviously you get more used to it the more often you do it , but it 's still pretty gross . |
| 16 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 17 | And if he feels that the French have an unfair advantage in that to them the words " whisky " and " scotch " are good selling points whereas to us they are just rather blunt or evocative in the wrong way then he can invent some totally new name . |
| 18 | The speaker has available to him the full range of ‘ voice quality ’ effects ( as well as facial expression , postural and gestural systems ) . |
| 19 | The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon . |
| 20 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
| 21 | These worldwide resources are available to you the Northern Ireland exporter/importer here in Belfast . |
| 22 | Well I think , probably ought to make it clear of course that we wo n't have available to us the greenbelt local plan enquiry , so |
| 23 | But the assumption , doubtful in itself , that in a Co-operative Community the distinction would have had no meaning does not explain why , when in the real world of Rochdale in the 1850s the distinction became apparent to them the Pioneers chose to set up the production arm as a separate society . |
| 24 | First , there is a general lack of appreciation of just how critical to us the Earth 's biological resources are . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , he was rather offensive to me the other day . ’ |
| 26 | But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way . |
| 27 | Open to us the door of your eyes . |
| 28 | As far as I am concerned , she was dead to me the moment she walked out the door . ’ |
| 29 | John was invited to have dinner with Balanchine , and to his surprise the latter proposed to him the theme , music and designer to be used . |
| 30 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |