Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , I think I put this to you financial status , okay , so you 've got a job and you 've got er er a reasonable income , what financial status straightforward thing that financial status does n't say what your outgoings are . |
| 2 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 3 | Since he believed the embryo was formed from the menstrual blood by the male dynamic in the semen it was clear to him that preformation must be excluded . |
| 4 | It was becoming clear to me that agriculture and its problems were a key factor in demographic changes all over Peru . |
| 5 | In July 1939 it seemed clear to me that war was inevitable . |
| 6 | It was made clear to us that Operation ‘ Brisket ’ for the road haulage dispute , ‘ Bittern ’ for the rapidly growing ambulance drivers ' dispute , and ‘ Nimrod ’ in the case of the water workers ' action , were all long on detailed planning , but short on how much could actually be done in a major dispute . |
| 7 | They make it clear to us that painting is a challenging process of continual decision-making — what to paint , how to apply the characteristics of the medium to the subject , how to retain the initial idea , or convey a particular mood . |
| 8 | FO … you acquire the … skill , with practice , of looking at a discharge and being able to say visually in many cases , that there 's things like suspended solids — that it is going to be outside consent ; it is clear to you that sample is going to be outside . |
| 9 | At the next meeting , Mr E almost casually mentioned that he had been trying out one or two of last week 's ideas and that Dave seemed quite responsive to him this week . |
| 10 | So house style for both newspapers I mean Brian pointed to , out some to you this morning . |
| 11 | But this does n't affect the fact that they would topple over , for in worlds most similar to ours tailless kangaroos do topple over and are not given crutches . |
| 12 | Under the service agreement a small salary was payable to her each year and she was to provide her exclusive services to the company for five years . |
| 13 | We are already familiar with Hobbes 's fascination with motion , and how it seemed obvious to him that motion was the one basic cause . |
| 14 | It may seem obvious to you that coffee cups belong in the top cupboard , but if people get into the habit of leaving them in the sink and you allow them to do that ( even when it irritates you ) it will be difficult to get them to change . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry I was foul to you last night , ’ the woman said . |
| 16 | ‘ The condition he 's in , ’ the man by her side immediately assessed his cousin 's state , ‘ I should n't think he was much good to you last night . ’ |
| 17 | Oh dear , if only you 'd explained it all to me last night ! ’ she said accusingly to Fran . |
| 18 | She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly . |
| 19 | They are important to me these people . |
| 20 | She had got the forty odd due to her that week from Social Security , and it melted away on things Philip needed . |
| 21 | It seems flimsy and awkward compared with the good-old lever , and I did n't get used to it all week . |
| 22 | Fulham , London , adds : ‘ If I ever met the person who did it , I 'd say : ‘ I hope you have a daughter and I hope someone does that to her one day . ’ ‘ . |
| 23 | ‘ We began the composition together , ’ Wordsworth recalled , ‘ on that to me memorable evening . ’ |
| 24 | They did that to me one day . |
| 25 | Did that to me last time . |
| 26 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 27 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
| 28 | The first of these three problems , which is the most important in numerical terms — accounting for just under 10% of all unsatisfied requests — is also the most easily solved , and could very largely be eliminated simply by encouraging readers to consult the Library 's catalogues before submitting a call-slip , and by making available to them printed instructions on the location and interpretation of catalogue entries for serial publications . |
| 29 | We undertake to reimburse you upon your first written demand any sum or sums not exceeding a maximum aggregate amount of £ [ ] should [ client name ] fail to make available to you this sum within the stipulated date required by yourselves , but no later than [ date ] . |
| 30 | At the time the committee considered representations of the deposit plan , we had available to us revised projections based on the ninety one census , also information available from the ninety nine planning census of employment and based on a number of er representations made to me formally and informally , I revised the assumptions to er incorporate ninety one census data and to in fact stretch the assumptions er in terms of their general . |