Example sentences of "[noun] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sees through his unctuous manners to his black-hearted designs , and shoots him on the spot , but it too late , and she is surrounded by Kuomintang forces . |
| 2 | She had travelled to Maidenhead to his old address and the new occupants of his small mansion had no idea where he had gone . |
| 3 | The nature of these policies determines the risks to which long-term funds are exposed . |
| 4 | DEC would also like Encore to buy some Alpha AXP systems and offer them in place of its real-time 91 and 93 systems , as well as building successors to its parallel Infinity 90 machines out of Alpha microprocessors . |
| 5 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 6 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 7 | This backlash has meant many dog owners having to confine their pets to their own gardens for exercise and toilet use which , of course , leads to the problem of how to dispose of the dogs ' faeces . |
| 8 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 9 | Jack Birkenshaw , back where he has always felt he most belongs , has a hard job ahead in trying to restore Leicestershire to their long-lost glories . |
| 10 | His marriage to Doreen 's mother , who was the epitome of affection and kindness to her only daughter , was a stormy affair . |
| 11 | The women wait anxiously and when the boat returns one of its crew has been lost , causing inconsolable grief to his young wife . |
| 12 | Her eyes dropped of their own accord to his hard mouth . |
| 13 | According to the Suda , Simonides of Magnesia sang of a victory by Antiochus III over the Gauls , about which we know nothing — unless it is to be identified with the episode to which II Maccabees refers as a success by eight thousand Babylonian Jews and four thousand Macedonians against Galatian raiders ( 8.20 ) . |
| 14 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow gave a Valentine 's card to her former lover Woody Allen showing a steak knife plunged into her chest , his friends said last night . |
| 15 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
| 16 | But his recovery also owes a great deal to his personal courage . |
| 17 | The boost to their growing jurisdiction came when the Royal Commission on Trades Unions and Employers ' Associations ( Donovan Commission ) of 1968 approved the extension of tribunal jurisdiction ( Donovan , 1968 ) . |
| 18 | Mr Litman refused to discuss details of the money involved but his Russian associates are clearly expecting a considerable boost to their meagre pensions . |
| 19 | Let's not , however , dwell on negative aspects of what was after all a further morale boost to our international prospects . |
| 20 | Mr Bush 's clear determination to continue with America 's global role added force to his blunt rejection of Gorbachev 's call for naval nuclear disarmament . |
| 21 | Paul 's teaching must have come with all the more force to his original hearers . |
| 22 | The greetings — ‘ with love , Father ’ and ‘ to a dear Daddy ’ — had an empty , hollow ring to them five Christmases later . |
| 23 | Ring of bright gas : by comparing the real diameter of the ring to its apparent diameter , astronomers have calculated its distance from Earth |
| 24 | We turn ow to their numerical treatment . |
| 25 | Right here feedback to your respective manager as regards to your sales figures so please stick to that format for today and tomorrow everyone clear on what we have for today , yeah ? . |
| 26 | Above : The AOS vessel , Lady Elaine , towing the Goodwyn jacket from Batam Island , Indonesia to its new home |
| 27 | They are designed to prevent member states from using these prudential provisions to limit investment to their own government securities or shares . |
| 28 | That business and the state have spent so much effort in explaining why employment has to be more flexible is testament to their previous success in establishing lifetime employment as a longstanding cultural practice . |
| 29 | The UK trade deficit of £1 billion plus in the depths of recession is testament to our insatiable appetite for , mainly Japanese , imports . |
| 30 | It is interesting to compare this fact with the ridicule to which some experts were exposed for developing fermentation methods of producing penicillin — ‘ obviously to be a flop ’ . |