Example sentences of "[conj] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 2 | When family and neighbours failed , women resorted to the pawnshop and other ready means of obtaining credit or to whatever part-time work was available — hawking goods , taking in washing or going out charring . |
| 3 | My constituent felt strongly that neither the amount on offer from the student loans scheme nor the money available from the postgraduate access fund would be enough to compensate for the loss of housing benefit to her undergraduate daughter or to her elder daughter , who was on the postgraduate music course . |
| 4 | This is where state visitor usually land , and official welcome by President Carter or to her senior US officials . |
| 5 | Section 52(1) of the 1984 Act gives the court power to make any order for inspection , preservation and detention of property which is the subject matter of proceedings or to which any question may arise in any such proceedings and Ord 13 , r 7(b) again applies the Rules of the Supreme Court . |
| 6 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 7 | The pragmatics of all these statements — the ways they are used to produce certain effects on the people to whom they are addressed — are thus tied to their propaganda value for particular campaigns or positions , or to their instrumental value in furthering the personal or political objectives of particular individuals or groups . |
| 8 | But Peach did n't go to Bale 's or to his former home in Hilderbridge . |
| 9 | Doth not the good father in short time , either by his coughing or spitting or testiness … become troublesome either to his own son or to his nice daughter-in-law , with continuing so long chargeable and so much waited-on , or to the children , with taking up their room at the fire or at the table , or to the servants , while his slow eating doth scant their reversions ? |
| 10 | His nonconformity was not just limited to the roles he chose or to his moody persona but also to his sexuality . |
| 11 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 12 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 13 | Was the rapid expansion of the search space due to the nature of speech itself , or to our limited understanding of speech processing ? |
| 14 | Or to our head office : Rambøll & Hannemann , Bredevej 2C , Dk-2830 Virum , Denmark , Fax + . |
| 15 | If not , give one to any of your friends who are teachers or to your local school . |
| 16 | But they were busy and not paying attention except to their own work . |
| 17 | But what , of course , was not known to me , nor to Mr Smith , nor to my Rhodesian adviser who obviously knew nothing about Rhodesia , was the relationship between the tribal chiefs and the tribes : the chiefs do what the tribes tell them , not the other way round . |
| 18 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 19 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 20 | Saying that to him last night , go back upstairs in your cot |
| 21 | erm I mean , it 's interesting , that 's not the only person that 's said that to me erm one of the youngsters actually said that to me last night erm sort of complaining again along the same sort of lines , and I said ‘ well hang on a minute , you know there are people actually at this moment who are putting their lives on the line and |
| 22 | And although Mr Kohl promises that Germany will eventually amend its constitution and shoulder its proper military responsibilities in the world , he would prefer to sell that to his own people as a pro-European gesture than as a pro-American one . |
| 23 | I shall remember that to my dying day , I shall remember it all my life . ’ |
| 24 | Try telling that to my three year old see what . |
| 25 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 26 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 27 | If you married that to your usual 1¼lb test-curve legering rod , you would not get away with it very often . |
| 28 | The mind , examine the way you , that you 've done erm if you sort of apply that to your own house , you can actually cut down the chances of a burglary happening to you . |
| 29 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 30 | And yet what had happened — the rejection of an unsatisfactory piece of writing — seems somehow more appropriate to the traditional classroom than to its liberal counterpart . |