Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was attracted to the latter 's extravagant precepts on style , in contrast to Pater : ‘ What a small man Pater is . |
| 2 | Snell has suggested that this sense of right was sufficiently marked to make expectations from the Poor Law part of the " moral economy " which Edward Thompson has applied to the poor 's expectation that corn would be sold to them at " just " prices . |
| 3 | In the end he sent it , regretfully , to Paul , thus adding to the latter 's troubles . |
| 4 | individual/individual e.g. the televised Kennedy/Nixon debates in the early 1960s worked to the former 's advantage . |
| 5 | She returned after a ten year absence , this time as director of ACARTE , an arts education programme linked to the Gulbenkian 's Centre of Modern Art , consolidating the respect she held as one of Portugal 's cultural leaders . |
| 6 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 7 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 8 | It would be no exaggeration to claim that the whole of present-day transplantation surgery is based on his original insight and on his subsequent collaboration with Sir Peter Medawar , which led to the latter 's Nobel Prize . |
| 9 | In s.2(1) ( b ) the phrase " let another do so " still refers to the accused 's own existing liability and it was another way of committing the offence . |
| 10 | The constitutionalisation of the trade unions and the police refers to the former 's growing commitment to procedural settlements and closer political alliance to the Labour Party , and to the latter 's growing independence from local political control . |
| 11 | The requirement of belief relates to the accused 's own belief . |
| 12 | Sick of being subjected to the Argentinian 's taunts Johnson simply replied ‘ Come near me sunshine and you 'll be swallowing your teeth . ’ |
| 13 | " You tell me how to get to the seneschal 's office , " Quiss said evenly , " or I shall boil you alive , understand ? " |
| 14 | Tribute was paid to the late 's contribution and it was to be brought to the notice of Divisions that nominations were sought . |