Example sentences of "[pron] to [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are n't reasonable enough to accommodate ourselves to such a shift in moral attitudes . |
| 2 | It is of course very difficult for us to reconcile ourselves to such a perspective . |
| 3 | By the same token , one wonders what leader , in some of the countries so quick to condemn Smith , would expose himself to such a cross-examination ? ) |
| 4 | At worst he will limit himself to two a month , one Nil by his boss ( which the Profitboss might well have to suffer ) and one he might run for his own team to review progress . |
| 5 | He introduced himself to all the furniture , saying how nice it was to meet a particular table , or how nice the covering was on a chair . |
| 6 | He scored the only goal of the game and immediately endeared himself to half the city 's fans . |
| 7 | Thus you play into the hands of that force which desires your downfall and wishes to hinder your inner progress , leaving you to shut the gate on the prison you have built for yourself , afraid to step out and to try anew to overcome your weaknesses . |
| 8 | I have also tried to divide the particular provisions of the precedents into chapters , where appropriate , but I feel that the agreement does not lend itself to such a division , and I have therefore dealt with that in a chapter by itself . |
| 9 | Reported typhoid cases in 1991 had risen from virtually none to 60-70 a day . |
| 10 | How near are we to such a system ? |
| 11 | How can he assign any motive but an honourable one to such a request ? ’ |
| 12 | They were accused of threatening MPs , bullying one to such an extent he was reduced to tears , and bringing pressure to bear on constituency officials to try to persuade their man to change his mind . |
| 13 | Julia answered civilly and resigned herself to half an hour 's polite conversation . |
| 14 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 15 | The same lover had made palm trees out of Edwardian ostrich feathers and tied them to all the newel posts of the four-storey staircase . |
| 16 | DIGI DUB serve up a welcome listen of techno ragga , electro and dub , blending them to such a degree that they still remain hard to categorise , dealing in each style with equal authority and adeptness throughout and as inventive as anything you 'll find plagiarising these genres . |
| 17 | Centuries ago they created torsion powered and counter-weighted devices which are their equivalent of cannons , perfecting them to such a degree that they are in many ways superior to crude gunpowder weapons . |
| 18 | Rosa ‘ Dorothy Perkins ’ , with small , double , pink flowers has clambered over one of them to such an extent that a visitor to the garden once asked about the ‘ carnation tree ’ . |
| 19 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 20 | Rhythm , the primary revelation of Indian music for Glass , preoccupied him to such an extent that one of his pieces at this time , Play , consisted of two lines for soprano saxophones. each instrument using only two notes . |
| 21 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 22 | Naturally , in view of the political interest of Lord Milton and the Duke of Argyll , John Main was not left to languish in the state of promoted unemployment to which Colonel Haldane 's enmity had consigned him , but although they were able to secure a port appointment for Main which brought him a regular salary , it was at Bo'ness , on the Lothian shore of the river Forth and directly under they eye of Haldane 's ally , Collector Middleton , who sent the unfortunate Main ‘ on every drudgery piece of business to different places to put him to all the expence & trouble the Collector can devise ’ . |
| 23 | She picked up the suspicion in his voice , said nothing , but left him to open the door . |
| 24 | She had been determined not to give anything of herself away to him , but he had succeeded in antagonising her to such a pitch that she almost could n't help herself . |
| 25 | He had n't realized she was allowing her feelings to run away with her to such an extent and he was worried about the situation . |
| 26 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 27 | She was n't used to expressing such volatility in front of anyone , and it confounded her how a total stranger , and a man she disliked into the bargain , was able to stir her to such an extent . |
| 28 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 29 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 30 | The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . " |