Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will it cost to adjust my car to unleaded petrol ? |
| 2 | I am accused of that ; I am even accused of changing my hairstyle because of my attitude to local authority finance . |
| 3 | But on my recent visit to Ghana I found that my attitude to everyday life in Africa had changed radically — mainly because I was not working on a project whose usefulness I doubted , trying to achieve things and getting frustrated . |
| 4 | If I can make these changes , I can be freed from my captivity to unwanted stress . |
| 5 | ‘ And I 'd always seen myself as leaving my body to medical science . ’ |
| 6 | There was also a quote from Forbes ; he praised the stand I had taken in the face of management victimisation and stressed my right to real work . |
| 7 | My reaction to female flesh was neither as extreme nor as ignorant as that , and it was only my own , not that of other women , which caused me to feel revulsion . |
| 8 | It is perhaps worth recording here , particularly for the benefit of Alan , to whom I am copying this letter , that the idea , while being born out of a most pleasant lunch with Terri Peralla , stands up well in my view to critical evaluation . |
| 9 | A compromise of allowing her to reduce her scheduled hours and time of working should be offered , thus providing some income and retaining her entitlement to annual leave when it will be of personal benefit to her . |
| 10 | Their power to affect the public and the importance of public confidence in their loyalty give special importance to their fidelity to justified authority . |
| 11 | What for the insider might be the purification of a defensible religion by its exposure to scientific criticism , would for the outsider be one more step along the path to destruction as an inherently implausible account of human destiny was shown up for what it is . |
| 12 | In their attachment to frontal teaching and related methods it would therefore seem that the junior highs outsinned the devil highs themselves . |
| 13 | It was hoped that more would be done by legislation to impose on local authorities a duty to consider , assess and intervene ‘ Where there are elderly people in need of some support or advice in order to prevent or postpone personal or social deterioration or breakdown — necessitating their removal to institutional care ’ ( Age Concern , 1986 , p. 128 ) . |
| 14 | Their jobs were threatened ; their cradle to grave support system was threatened ; and , most dangerously , their view of themselves , of their maleness , their dominance , their bravery , was threatened . |
| 15 | Concern was expressed on behalf of those people in magistrates courts who were unaware of their legal rights and their entitlement to legal aid in certain criminal cases . |
| 16 | It is also worth bearing it in mind that , under the so-called 21-hour rule , young people can study part time for up to 21 hours a week without affecting their entitlement to social security benefits . |
| 17 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 18 | Myra told me that , until the previous year , she would have thought that nothing whatsoever had occurred in her childhood which could have caused her revulsion to physical contact . |
| 19 | When Khiva backed the Kazakhs in their resistance to Russian penetration , St Petersburg vacillated . |
| 20 | I will argue later that kids involved in sport are able to broaden their intellectual scope , partly because they can bring the characteristics chiselled out of sport to bear in other aspects of life , and partly because , through improving health , the kids increase their capability for intellectual work and reinforce their resistance to mental stress . |
| 21 | Japan was both militarily and economically vulnerable and the lack of outside support for her resistance to great power domination reinforced a sense of national isolation which originated in national myth , grew in the seclusion period and was strengthened by an awareness of the cultural divide between Japan and the West . |
| 22 | Now there is a general consensus in the Netherlands that Britain is an economic backwater , and that Thatcher really ca n't be taken seriously — due in no small part to her resistance to British assimilation into the European Community . |
| 23 | Apart from these relatively rare exceptions in the biographical sources , moreover , one ought to mention a clause contained in the kanun of 1006/1598 whereby kadis without question kasabat kadis are forbidden to become muderrises in the a provision which would effectively block their route to high office in the learned profession . |
| 24 | Their exposure to instant recall of their liabilities is tolerable because the Bank of England stands ready to assist them in time of a shortage of liquidity . |
| 25 | It was , however , less strident in its opposition to African nationalism than its sister paper , the East African Standard of Nairobi , and when TANU won the elections in 1958 , it shifted its ground , coming to terms with political change and lending its support to African nationalism as represented by what it regarded as the moderation of Nyerere . |
| 26 | Having unequivocally given its support to child-centred learning , the Plowden Report also emphasised the responsibility which was entrusted to teachers by society . |
| 27 | It was the manifest failure of the Bolsheviks to retain the confidence of the masses , their resort to brutal coercion , which enabled the openly reactionary Whites to come so close to overthrowing them . |
| 28 | When Dorothea can not admire the sort of painting her uncle likes to praise — ‘ They are a language I do not understand ’ — Mr Brooke attributes her inability to defective education . |
| 29 | The central drama of the revolution was precisely the attempt of the Russian masses to assert direct control over their own lives ; its tragedy was their subordination to Bolshevik domination . |
| 30 | One focus of our work on the development of platinum complexes with improved activity against cisplatin resistant cell lines has been to target platinum to DNA by its attachment to suitable DNA — affinic carrier ligands . |