Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WAS surprised to read in the article by Harry Mead ( Echo January 17 ) and your editorial ( January 20 ) where , after a careful scrutiny of the present troubles in Northern Ireland , both of your suggested conclusions were for accepting the defeatist attitude of the greater good subordinating itself to the prevalent evil . |
| 2 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 3 | Suddenly he exploded , yelled at the porter to buzz off , and broke union regulations by pushing the children 's luggage himself to the two West Indian women who were meeting them . |
| 4 | The request for release from monstrous tyranny is made by Eirena herself to the Faerie Queene , whose champion Artegall is . |
| 5 | Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | In order to benefit from favourable international developments , indeed in order to avoid falling victim herself to the volatile diplomacy of the period , Russia had to mobilize her resources far more effectively than she had under Peter 's predecessors . |