Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minimum number of prey items in the predator assemblages is based on the highest number of any single element in the assemblage , but it is not possible without direct experimental observation to extrapolate back from this to what the predator actually ate ( Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 3 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 4 | This is to make it clear to whom the letter is intended , to ensure that the recipient has an address for further correspondence and to provide the address for window envelopes if they are being used . |
| 5 | Employers will , of course , want to make clear to you the level of personal responsibility you will be expected to take within the remit of your job description ( for a sample job description , see chapter 2 ) , but this does n't necessarily mean that they are trying to warn off the less confident . |
| 6 | That 's no different to what the situation is now , it was there before , the difference is that the banker is different . |
| 7 | The title was not mine , and the word ‘ Breeds ’ in the title suggested something different to what the article purported to say . |
| 8 | The Eighth Book , Madrigali Guerrieri , Et Amorosi , opens with an apostrophe to the Emperor Ferdinand III to whom the book is dedicated : ‘ Altri canti d'Amor ’ . |
| 9 | ( iii ) Freedom from incumbrancesthe land shall be enjoyed free from any incumbrances other than those subject to which the conveyance is expressly made . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) An agreement to sell becomes a sale when the time elapses or the conditions are fulfilled subject to which the property in the goods is to be transferred . |
| 11 | Why , it is in the power of Jesus to whom all authority in heaven and earth is entrusted ; this Jesus is with them always in their mission , to the end of the age ; and naturally , therefore , they baptise men not only into the possession , the ‘ name ’ , of God the Father and the Lord Jesus , but into the sphere of that Holy Spirit who makes real to them the presence of the risen Christ , and empowers them for their work of making him known ( Matt. 28:18–20 ) . |
| 12 | We made visible to ourselves the complex , multiplicity of our identities . |
| 13 | ‘ It might seem obvious to say it , but the essential thing is to listen real hard to what the band is doing ! |
| 14 | Can the reasoning of Lord Ellenborough C.J. in Bilbie v. Lumley , 2 East 469 , be appropriately applied to the complex legislation both primary and subordinate to which the citizen is subject in present times ? |
| 15 | He 'd been damned rude to her the night before , not to say insulting . |
| 16 | The angry owner then proceeds to whack the dog , thus reinforcing the idea that if the dog comes back , he receives a whack , which is totally opposite to what the owner is trying to achieve . |
| 17 | Its more partial to what the paper calls SVR4.3 when its all integrated sometime next summer . |
| 18 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 19 | It 's the fairest way of ensuring that those affected by each route are able to what the case for and against that route is . ’ |
| 20 | It is rare for an instrument to prove objectionable to the Houses on any of these grounds and the vast majority of those to which the committee draws attention are innocent of serious blemish . |
| 21 | The analogy between the diseases of the human body and those to which the horse is liable is very great . |
| 22 | Of all the travellers of our period those who most affected the lives of large numbers of people , those who travelled most regularly for pleasure and profit , those to whom the sea , the river and the road , were most natural companions , have left the smallest record . |
| 23 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 24 | Despite his severe view of the temptations of the world , his spirituality allowed a very large place for the physical world and for the rights of those to whom the administration of this world had been committed . |
| 25 | Those to whom the questionnaire is sent have already been carefully selected as representative of the population to be studied . |
| 26 | I have known those to whom the gift of enchantment was sheer delight ; who sparkled with their powers like fireflies after nightfall . |
| 27 | the limitation on circulation of the report : normally the client 's instructions , the scope of work and the time constraints in which it is performed mean that circulation should be restricted to those to whom the report is addressed and to other named parties to whom the report is relevant . |
| 28 | Revocation by the principal , his death , and in some cases his insanity , put an end to the agent 's authority , though in general a revocation will be inoperative as against those to whom the principal has held out the agent as having authority , and who have no notice of the revocation . |
| 29 | Osbern as precentor also appears in the list of those to whom the letter was addressed . |
| 30 | ‘ But , ’ says West , ‘ it lost its magic and disturbing quality — and from that time on , he began to respond much more to what the audience expected him to be — and much less to all the original feeling he had shown for it . ’ |