Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully , this will prove to be a posthumous tribute to someone to whom the Trust have cause to be grateful , and are much saddened by his death . |
| 2 | In the last two years , Hanson has been seen as a provider of last resort , as someone to whom the Government can turn for relief , especially its privatization programme runs into problems . |
| 3 | Here is how one observer describes this peculiar meaning of have : In the have causative the causer assumes the causee 's " readiness to serve " ; the causee is treated as a cooperative performer of the causee 's will , as someone to whom the causer 's will can be communicated ( either directly or by an intermediary ) and who will be neither unable to understand it nor unwilling to perform it . |
| 4 | When secondhand goods are sold on the " as is " basis of Precedent 4 , the question arises as to the extent to which the seller can disclaim responsibility for their condition if they are to be used at work either by the buyer , or by someone to whom the buyer sells them . |
| 5 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |
| 6 | The conclusion to which we can come is that cannibalism is rare but that , in extremis , it is something to which the human species will resort . |
| 7 | Of course , isolation is something to which the rural working population , particularly in the upland areas , has long been accustomed . |
| 8 | This feature can be used to update information stored in a receiver about programme services other than the one to which the set is tuned . |
| 9 | Someone who knows , for instance , all about such things as ambush marketing and the fact that one television channel in Japan ( the one to which the 1991 event was sold ) is not allowed to carry advertising ! |
| 10 | It specifically made visible the gap in post-elementary provision , one to which the subsequent enquiries addressed themselves . |
| 11 | The picture I give , however , is , according to a Bororo expert , Sylvia Caiuby Novaes ( personal communication ) , one to which the Bororo , neighbours of the Shavante , also subscribe . |
| 12 | In R. v. Merthyr Tydvil JJ. ( 1885 ) 14 Q.B.D. 584 , it was held that an objection made by a chief constable to an application for a licence to the court in their private room was not one to which the court could give effect . |
| 13 | That entity must be based on consensus and it must be one to which the British people will willingly belong because they appreciate the advantages to which the hon. Member for Chichester has already referred . |
| 14 | ‘ Ann 's mother was plainly one of a class within the area of foreseeable risk and one to whom the defendants therefore owed a duty . |
| 15 | " I would think that to follow your thought in this instance is only possible for one to whom the message of Tristan , in particular , has been revealed . " |
| 16 | ‘ The pain you feel now is nothing to what the others will do . |
| 17 | but it do n't mean nothing to me the skating . |
| 18 | Mr Jones mentioned them to me the other morning . |
| 19 | It is my intention then to deliver them to you the following day , Friday 5 March , probably sometime before midday . |
| 20 | There is a path along the top of it to which the houses nearest the sea are joined by individual wooden gang ways . |
| 21 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 22 | Adam gave it to me the other day so that I could lock up . |
| 23 | Give it to them the amino acid |
| 24 | I 'll put it to him the next time he kidnaps me . |
| 25 | I 'd find something as er pretty near to what I wanted , you know and I could perhaps , and did , use what 's called beeswax a lot , you know and er warm it up and ply it and put it onto er something to make it to what the shape I wanted , you know . |