Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of Faraday 's experimental results were independently achieved , sometimes before him , by Joseph Henry in the USA , and by William Sturgeon in Manchester , for example ; and his theory of point atoms owes something to Newton , and more to Roger Boscovich ( an eighteenth-century Jesuit ) and to Joseph Priestley . |
| 2 | The delicate painting of the rose petals invites one to almost smell the fragrance ; how such a painting can be described as a still life is beyond me . |
| 3 | The delicate painting of the rose petals invites one to almost smell the fragrance ; how such a painting can be described as a still life is beyond me . |
| 4 | It has to be admitted that the sound quality on some of these recordings at times leaves something to be desired , and some listeners may no doubt be disturbed by the occasional fluctuations of pitch , as in the Lohengrin Prelude . |
| 5 | Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster . |