Example sentences of "[noun] to [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had travelled to Maidenhead to his old address and the new occupants of his small mansion had no idea where he had gone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | His marriage to Doreen 's mother , who was the epitome of affection and kindness to her only daughter , was a stormy affair . |
| 7 | The women wait anxiously and when the boat returns one of its crew has been lost , causing inconsolable grief to his young wife . |
| 8 | Her eyes dropped of their own accord to his hard mouth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
| 11 | But his recovery also owes a great deal to his personal courage . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ring of bright gas : by comparing the real diameter of the ring to its apparent diameter , astronomers have calculated its distance from Earth |
| 15 | We turn ow to their numerical treatment . |
| 16 | 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 ? . |
| 17 | Above : The AOS vessel , Lady Elaine , towing the Goodwyn jacket from Batam Island , Indonesia to its new home |
| 18 | They are designed to prevent member states from using these prudential provisions to limit investment to their own government securities or shares . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The UK trade deficit of £1 billion plus in the depths of recession is testament to our insatiable appetite for , mainly Japanese , imports . |
| 21 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , by selective choice , the articulate , financially secure and politically active can also indirectly contribute to school failure — not perhaps in their district and their child 's school , but in the schools and districts to which such influence is never brought ( or the area from which they have moved away ) . |
| 23 | Reports from the US suggest that Covia 's software will also be snapped up by Sun Microsystems Inc , which could OEM CI as an add-on to its Open Networking Computing environment . |
| 24 | If that turned out to be possible , it might suggest there is access from a higher level to quite remote lower-level translations , unless one was prepared to redescribe such a phenomenon in terms of our ( levels of programming language ) metaphor as ‘ This patient has found out how to access a highest level command GROW A NEW NERVE TO YOUR LEFT FOOT though without , of course , having any access to the translation of that command in terms of the nerve cell processes themselves . ’ |
| 25 | Social classes often have their own particular behaviour , purchase and consumption patterns , and tend to limit their closest relationships , social intercourse and friendship to their own kind . |
| 26 | On extended trips to their native land they produced vigorous and fluent drawings and sketches of their dramatic and mountainous country using all their collected expertise to capture and convey that image or Norway by which we know it today . |
| 27 | Film girl tells court of Minister 's regular trips to her luxury home |
| 28 | The Prussian Finance Minister , von Motz , explained to the King in 1829 that he saw the economic union of Germany as the prelude to its political unification ‘ under the protection of Prussia ’ . |
| 29 | As a prelude to its promised Sun 10 SuperSparc clone ( UX No 392 ) , the thing will initially come with one or two 40MHz Cypress Semiconductor Corp Sparcs of the sort used by Sun in its Sparcserver 600MP series . |
| 30 | Indeed MacArthur was concerned almost wholly with the culmination to his four-year struggle against the Japanese and was determined to accept the formal surrender himself as a prelude to his new role as the reformer of Japanese society . |