Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | He 'd been damned rude to her the night before , not to say insulting . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Our success is due to you the readers , whose loyalty and support has made it all possible . |
| 7 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 8 | And if he feels that the French have an unfair advantage in that to them the words " whisky " and " scotch " are good selling points whereas to us they are just rather blunt or evocative in the wrong way then he can invent some totally new name . |
| 9 | The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon . |
| 10 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
| 11 | These worldwide resources are available to you the Northern Ireland exporter/importer here in Belfast . |
| 12 | Well I think , probably ought to make it clear of course that we wo n't have available to us the greenbelt local plan enquiry , so |
| 13 | But the assumption , doubtful in itself , that in a Co-operative Community the distinction would have had no meaning does not explain why , when in the real world of Rochdale in the 1850s the distinction became apparent to them the Pioneers chose to set up the production arm as a separate society . |
| 14 | First , there is a general lack of appreciation of just how critical to us the Earth 's biological resources are . |
| 15 | Open to us the door of your eyes . |
| 16 | As far as I am concerned , she was dead to me the moment she walked out the door . ’ |
| 17 | John was invited to have dinner with Balanchine , and to his surprise the latter proposed to him the theme , music and designer to be used . |
| 18 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |
| 19 | But unknown to him the fate of Leeds City was no longer in his hands ; it was being decided , along with that of every other club in the country , by a totally unrelated event in a faraway city in Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | On Wheeler 's left was the Earl and next to him the Dean . |
| 21 | Across the room was the table with its powdery dried flowers and next to it the fireplace with the companion set in the hearth and the two tasteless china dogs on the mantel . |