Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards offers , at any one time we would have over 1000 offers available in-store ; these change on a weekly basis and it would be almost impossible to give advance notice to all staff ; we do of course highlight them in-store to customers and many are advertised in the national press or on TV so that customers [ and potential customers ] may be attracted to shop in JS branches . |
| 2 | It is certainly not expedient to lay ourselves open to charges of idolatry or syncretism at a time when churches are seriously examining our beliefs and doctrines . ’ |
| 3 | The present project will produce a complete transcription of the journals , edited to make them accessible to scholars and others interested in the many aspects of early nineteenth century life on which they throw light . |
| 4 | Pre-prepared units of work should be labelled and stored so as to make them accessible to pupils and teachers alike . |
| 5 | They showed that acid rain is leaching important plant nutrients such as calcium , magnesium and potassium from the soils , making them unavailable to trees . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most difficult problem to be coped with ( apart from grammar and syntax which are quite outside the scope of this book ) is that of semantic shift — the new meanings which Classical words acquired in medieval times , sometimes making them unintelligible to readers who remember only fragments of the language from their schooldays . |
| 7 | The cross we have to bear in Darlington is Durham County Council which due to years of Labour Party domination has become unaccountable and virtually under the control of its officers . |
| 8 | Salmond has since shown himself responsive to calls for cross-party unity among the opposition , but Brian Wilson ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) seems still to be revelling in partisan spite . |
| 9 | Ford , according to Reeves , had built a career , become a congressional leader and eventually reached the White House not on the strength of any real ability , but because of his extraordinary skill at making himself acceptable to others . |
| 10 | When a community language teacher makes her or himself available to parents , especially in times of crisis , greater support and recognition can be gained , and the traditional mistrust of secondary schools on the part of parents , particularly working class parents can be eroded . |
| 11 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
| 12 | There is a deposit on every jar and bottle , and people take their own to shops for refilling . |
| 13 | She knew , for she had told him so that first night , that her situation , alone , unchaperoned , unprotected — and that was the worst of it ! — laid her open to advances . |
| 14 | I do n't think its fair to children to have dogs in playgrounds . |
| 15 | Charlton 's excellent win still left them needing two victories from their last to games to be certain of left a play-off place . |
| 16 | Equally important were the new rhododendrons , camellias and magnolias which each year in spring attract visitors in their thousands to gardens such as Wakehurst Place and Nymans in Sussex , Trengwainton in Cornwall and Knightshayes Court in Devon . |
| 17 | It lacks the extensive mud-flats rich in marine invertebrates which attract these birds in their thousands to places like Morecambe Bay or the Washes of England . |
| 18 | And though rude , crude , vulgar and philistine , she also had an abrasive sense of reality that made her attractive to artists . |
| 19 | Chamerovzow 's succession to the long-serving John Scoble , particularly detested by critics of the BFASS , was itself conducive to aspirations for better relations , hopes which Chamerovzow built on by undertaking as editor of the Anti-Slavery Reporter to report abolitionist efforts in Britain and America whoever undertook them . |
| 20 | The second hopeful sign is that the state and its criminal justice system ( broadly conceived to include criminal , administrative , and civil law ) has shown itself receptive to arguments that corporate crime victims deserve protection and that corporate criminals deserve sanctioning , particularly when those arguments have been well orchestrated , empirically supported , and contain implicit electoral threats . |
| 21 | The NP has been seeking to make itself acceptable to non-whites and what better way than this . |
| 22 | Yet by inevitably proceeding on an assumption of regularity of police action the legal process can not help making itself vulnerable to police mistakes . |
| 23 | Are you open to suggestions from the educational field as a whole as to what you should do and what 's important and so on ? |
| 24 | A gradation system which fails to afford adequate recognition to the horror which the community may feel about certain forms of rape lays itself open to attempts at circumvention . |
| 25 | Equally any body of work , such as Bourdieu 's , to which the process of reproduction is so central , leaves itself open to attacks as functionalist . |
| 26 | Are you allergic to plasters ? |
| 27 | BLOW THEM ALL TO BITS |
| 28 | A bomb inside it , timed to explode and tear them all to shreds . |
| 29 | In the first instance , there is nothing in the ideological and intellectual upbringing of the Soviet leaders which would make them partial to markets . |
| 30 | Regional brewers fear that the decision may make them vulnerable to predators . |