Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So my advice to new parents who are keen to bring up their children in non-sexist ways is , go easy on the fairy stories . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall be the first one to give in my order to these dear ladies , I shall have three pairs of the best leather boots the house of Grenfell and Morgan can supply . ’ |
| 3 | The giant Anglo-Dutch company and BP each had a 50 per cent stake in the crucial exploration block , but Shell decided to scale down its share to 20 per cent before drilling started last summer . |
| 4 | So their contribution to local energy consumption is fairly small . |
| 5 | I did tell Mrs. Jervis for my heart was almost broken , but I opened not my mouth to any other . |
| 6 | The main difference between the two approaches is thus their commitment to discrete ranges of causal factors — to the beliefs , actions and intentions of individuals on the one hand , to the constraining properties of social wholes on the other . |
| 7 | After the mother 's departure , he lost interest in the girl , turned over her upbringing to one of the house matrons . |
| 8 | FEW foreign brokers in South Korea thought they would see profits in 1992 , the year in which South Korea inched open its stockmarket to outside investors . |
| 9 | How , in Schelling 's terms ( 1979 ) , a state manages the balance between voluntarism and coercion is a central key to understanding what its future investment climate might be like , and thus its attractiveness to potential investors . |
| 10 | Think through your reaction to these ideas . |
| 11 | On the contrary , I shall maintain that this distinction demands the existence of such objects , and that moreover its applicability to such objects presupposes the possibility of certain criteria . |
| 12 | Underneath it she was clad in a close-fitting N. Peal black sweater which showed off her figure to full advantage . |
| 13 | The landed gentry abandoned the parish , selling off their land to speculative developers . |
| 14 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 15 | We were showing off our handiwork to some friends but admitted we were puzzled by the bedding plants , grown from seed , which produced attractive foliage but nothing else . |
| 16 | Even if you do n't like to fiddle with curlers and tongs you can show off your cut to best advantage by adding more volume and body to your hair . |
| 17 | I have a few close trusted friends and family , but I do n't open up my heart to all and sundry . ’ |
| 18 | So , when the house is full , and my husband 's away , and I give up my room to some guest like your Rainbow 's Aunt Goldie — I spend the night in my father 's study , and reading all the texts that were n't written for the eyes of women . |
| 19 | Co-operatives are broadly speaking self-run , as opposed to management committee-run , housing as-sociations ; hence their attractiveness to autonomous groups . |
| 20 | It is a point made so many times by so many people that it has almost lost its meaning : even if all children went to the same nursery , primary and secondary schools , their examination performance and hence their entry to higher education establishments and eventually to well-paid jobs will still vary according to their family background . |
| 21 | As mentioned in Chapter 1 , education has an important part to play in development , in both its contribution to structural change and to changing values . |
| 22 | They were to be friends , not lovers , she had made up her mind to that . |
| 23 | Breastfeeding speeds up its return to normal size after birth . |
| 24 | These arguments suggest the importance of the direct appeal to feelings of humanity but also their link to religious-based ideas of justice . |
| 25 | Phil Mitchell , ex-FYT field officer for the North West , and his wife Lyn , decided a few months ago to open up their home to young people . |
| 26 | In this post-welfare state , travellers are reminded of their duty to give up their seat to old ladies by a designated seat , post offices can not trust the customers to queue so they erect mazes through which one must wind before being served . |
| 27 | Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer . |
| 28 | He needs an extra £100 000 to scale up his method to 10 litres — big enough for clinical trials . |
| 29 | A brother of the Earl was MP for Bootle until 1910 , when he gave up his seat to Bonar Law after Law 's defeat in Manchester . |
| 30 | Straining , successfully , to eradicate any trace of intelligence , Glaser pulls out every stop to rack up his movie to cloying extremes . |