Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They first recorded the vervets ' call and then played them through loud-speakers to free-living monkeys moving about on the ground . |
| 2 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 3 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 4 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 5 | We 're going to look at how we can talk about them as benefits to the client . |
| 6 | It is possible for a man to assemble a large number of these mystical phrases that move the mind and to use them as passports to the transcendent world . |
| 7 | The other part handles the manufacture and marketing of a very large range of ‘ effect chemicals ’ whose uses are legion : there is scarcely an industry that does not need them as intermediates to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 8 | They treat such dissertations in an entirely different way from Ph D theses , generally appearing to put a lower value on them as contributions to the science . |
| 9 | US investors , on the other hand , simply treat them as alternatives to conventional bonds . |
| 10 | In short , restoring ordinary people as part of the we who run things , rather than the them for obstacles to be regulated , managed , I fear even duped and certainly simply left out , and the chief place to focus our search for pragmatic coalitions and cooperative democracy must be in our local communities . |
| 11 | but less superficially it is a fact that Christian truth is not to be equated with our formulations of it and we must always satisfy ourselves with pointers to it . |
| 12 | One of the most curious of these was the knighting of ambassadors at the end of their mission by the monarch to whom they had been accredited and the grant to them of augmentations to their coats of arms . |
| 13 | So there are plenty of reasons to be unalarmed by the economic outlook for 1991 . |
| 14 | With × 7 it appears as a filmy mass ; I suspect stars with × 8.5 , and with × 20 there are plenty of stars to be seen in it , though binoculars do not bring out any distinctive shape . |
| 15 | We would here stress the importance of giving plenty of rests to the double basses . |
| 16 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 17 | Do not get more than one new culture at a time , for there are plenty of experiments to be done with each culture . |
| 18 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 19 | There are plenty of birds to be seen : near the salmon cages a red-throated diver patters along the surface with its feet as it gets airborne . |
| 20 | In tune : Naomi Hazlett ( 9 ) from Greenisland , has plenty of strings to her bow . |
| 21 | There were plenty of crumbs to be gathered from around the cheese and scraps of meat and tasty skin to be picked from the carcass of a cooked chicken . |
| 22 | With the likelihood that at least seven Scots will be going on the British Lions tour , there are plenty of places to be won , though they will have to be earned against what looks a strong French XV . |
| 23 | With the likelihood that at least seven Scots will be going on the British Lions tour , there are plenty of places to be won , though they will have to be earned against what looks a strong French XV . |
| 24 | Give her plenty of opportunities to practice eye/hand coordination besides dressing , ie by picking up small objects , playing with threading toys , building with bricks , etc . |
| 25 | There are plenty of references to violent incidents of various kinds . |
| 26 | The Parcs are described in terms that seem to be reserved exclusively for brochures , with plenty of references to ‘ lifestyle ’ and ‘ experience ’ . |
| 27 | There are plenty of references to various studies which are pressed into support of this theory , giving it the appearance of authority . |
| 28 | It is this shifted subject which decides whether the verb is singular " is " or plural " are " : In some cases there was plenty of references to the protagonist 's body parts . |
| 29 | Lots of fiery meetings and grand gestures , plenty of petitions to Washington and protests outside John Wayne movies , but in the end they had just been a bunch of dumb redskins battering their heads against the white man 's bricks . |
| 30 | ‘ You know as well as I do it 's a damned great industry — and there are plenty of facets to it that never see the light of day . |