Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , without turning round , he said : ‘ I 'm sorry I lied to the police . |
| 2 | By this I refer to the acknowledged limitations on the ability to infer the contents of consciousness from any number of behavioural or physiological observations . |
| 3 | There is a marked concentration in the region of Sagittarius ( the Archer ) , and it was this which led to the discovery that we are having a lop-sided view of the Galaxy because we are not in the middle of it . |
| 4 | It was this which led to the appeal being re-argued before the Appellate Committee of seven which now reports to the House . |
| 5 | When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm . |
| 6 | It is 2 which amounts to the ratio decidendi of the case . |
| 7 | The result is a ludic collapsing of autonomous theoretical systems on the basis of structural similarities or ‘ slips ’ from one to another which point to the common ‘ story ’ underlying them . |
| 8 | After this she returned to the house hoping against hope that in the interval her daughter might have returned , but there was no sign of her . |
| 9 | This she confined to the pocket in her overall . |
| 10 | Some who went to the surgery thought that Daisy looked like an animal herself , moving sometimes like a slow marmalade cat , other times like a bustling sheep dog-for she was a woman of moods — and seeming to combine the best and worst qualities of each . |
| 11 | Though he noticed there were some who spoke to the superintendent and were completely ignored , while others looked as if they would have preferred to creep past unknown . |
| 12 | Another who rose to the occasion was the shadow Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , whose speech , while a little lacking in vision , was delivered with a verve which must surely silence his critics . |
| 13 | Following from this we turn to the ‘ motivation factor ’ . |
| 14 | But then earlier laws had been concerned with tales about the monarchy , where this one related to the regent and the French . |
| 15 | so that one goes to the right and this one goes to the left |
| 16 | This one links to the TV cameras . |
| 17 | Arranging the carbon atoms in a ring satisfied the laws of valency , since each of them could share two bonds with one of its neighbour , leaving another one to attach to the hydrogen atoms arranged around the outside . |
| 18 | Whether to cut the blue wire from the pin on the watch-face or the brown one soldered to the case . |
| 19 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 20 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 21 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 22 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |
| 23 | This he attributed to the solo exercise . |
| 24 | Fossils from more recent strata showed progressively less similarities with time in the different continents ; this he attributed to the contrasting evolutionary paths of groups of animals and plants separated by continental drift . |
| 25 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 26 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 27 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 28 | I hope that the Minister will make clear what happened to the idea of his Hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) about extending the remit of the Scottish transport users consultative committee to include buses . |
| 29 | Of the suggestions that we have canvassed the one that seems to be the most promising is that which points to the emergence of classical measuring instruments from a quantum mechanical substrate , even if the mode and consistency of this happening is harder to comprehend than Copenhagen orthodoxy is willing to recognise . |
| 30 | The defendant was held liable , for the fire which did the damage was not that which broke out in the carburettor but that which spread to the car and this second or continuing fire did not ‘ accidentally ’ begin . |