Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation . |
2 | So it 's Broadhurst 's Wager that comes to me now , comes to me at three o' clock in the morning while I harken to the cooling unit . |
3 | Let her go to her grave imagining me defiant to the last . |
4 | The fist techniques of taekwondo involve lunge punches , reverse punches , back fists and hammer fists — all of them similar to the basic karate punches described in the previous chapter . |
5 | Alexandra learnt to live with it , and her unfailing courtesy and thoughtfulness brought her closer to the elderly Queen , in spite of whatever misgivings they both shared about the erring Prince . |
6 | All in hopes that it will bring her closer to the lovely Riva . |
7 | Koons says that it is exactly this childlike aspect that makes her vulnerable to the tacky mandarins of the porn industry , whom Koons loathes , despite the mountain of mad flesh in Made in Heaven . |
8 | He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest . |
9 | Though the ascendancy he achieved over Nehru sometimes led Mountbatten to overestimate the extent to which great events lay in the hollow of his hand , he kept himself accountable to the British government throughout . |
10 | Might his successor be ‘ brave ’ because he was laying himself open to the same fate … ? |
11 | Her own self-confidence made her impervious to the intended snubs . |
12 | In Layton 's company Leonard could be himself , recognise his own nature , and celebrate its pleasing to the full . |
13 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
14 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
15 | There are many parts of greater energy in Jane Eyre , than , none equal to the following and the quotation is the death of Helen Burns . |
16 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
17 | The more easterly of the two valley roads which combine at Pierrefitte takes you first to the charming town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur , which may look like one place but is really two , with more than just a hyphen dividing them . |
18 | ( 2 ) That the liability of the said Nicholas Edward O'Brien to you pursuant to the said guarantee is and will be secured by the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 over the property described above made between ( 1 ) Nicholas Edward O'Brien ( 2 ) Nicholas Edward O'Brien and Bridget Mary O'Brien and ( 3 ) Barclays Bank Plc. |
19 | Their suspicions were borne out by a careful analysis of six different tumours ; in each case the viral promotor turned out , as expected , to have inserted itself next to the proto-oncogene myc . |
20 | I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one . |
21 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
22 | To call all these jobs by the same name is to disguise their differences , to reduce them all to the same common denominator . |
23 | This was the category of the barbarians , and Greek scholars were traditionally famous for exploring barbarian lands and making them intelligible to the civilized . |
24 | They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ . |
25 | Of a total of 14 portfolios , nine went to the ruling Liberal Party ( PL ) , two to the Conservative Party ( PSC ) , one each to the National Salvation Movement ( MSN ) and to the New Democratic Forces ( NFD ) , and one as before to Camilo González Pozo , a member of the left-wing April-19 Movement Democratic Alliance ( ADM-19 ) , who remained Health Minister . |
26 | The other available forms of pre-testing for print ads by means of survey research are all elaborations of the folder test — for example , an ad can be inserted into an actual magazine rather than a folder to provide something nearer to the real world . |
27 | It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family — people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement . |
28 | Nobody can say that depressions were something peculiar to the 1930s . |
29 | You could write something similar to the following example anywhere in your program where you wished this calculation to be carried out . |
30 | It would like something similar to the G-24 that co-ordinates western aid to Eastern Europe . |