Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun prp] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to strip the HIV virus of six of its nine genes … leaving the three genes which target cells prone to HIV and the gene which controls whether the virus grows . |
| 2 | As they drove out of town , along the quiet roads to the country , it became clear to Juliet that the brandy and soda her father had given him had n't been Nigel 's first drink of the evening . |
| 3 | It became clear to Truman as the months passed that the Soviet government was taking little heed of these threats and that differences over the composition of the Polish and other East European governments , over the fate of Germany and a host of other issues , remained as wide as ever . |
| 4 | It was clear to John that the opportunities in ballet , both for training and performance , were far better in Cape Town than in Johannesburg . |
| 5 | In London , UK ministers called for those responsible for the November killings to be brought to justice but made it clear to Alatas that the UK , the second-largest arms supplier to Indonesia after the USA , would not cut off aid or arms sales . |
| 6 | I 've made it clear to Craig-Dunlop that the family does n't want her life prolonged , for religious reasons . |
| 7 | But in meeting with Kosygin it became clear to Razak that the Soviet Union would prefer its own larger collective security agreement , which would embrace Japan , Pakistan and India as well as the smaller states . |
| 8 | I think that the skills developed in small , local units , similar to Blairtum and the Domus type model developed by Professor Elaine Murphy , are more likely to respond appropriately to the needs of sufferers and carers in a particular area and are more likely to build up relationships with carers which allows the carer to continue their baring role without sacrificing themselves . |
| 9 | That one 's very atmospheric , very similar to Sebastian and the stuff with orchestras that I was doing in 1974 . |
| 10 | Barclay reveals that Johannesburg was chosen for the build-up because the altitude is similar to Kenya and the players have been there before , though Ireland , if they are also accepted into the AMC , will restrict their build-up to a week in Kenya before the tournament . |
| 11 | It was ironic to Victor and the colleagues sitting round the table that morning that Gorbachev had been the KGB choice as leader . |
| 12 | Almost identical characters ( played there by William Baldwin and Charlie Sheen ) were central to Backdraft and The Rookie , two of the least impressive films of last year , and it 's hard to see why anyone thought the idea was worth doing even once . |
| 13 | For one school of modern historians this programme ( to which it attributes transcendent importance in the development of Carlism ) represents a reversion to a traditional monarchy ruling with the historic Cortes and subject to God and the law , a via media between imported liberalism and the equally foreign ministerial despotism of the eighteenth century , a truly Spanish solution of the political problem of modern Spain . ’ |
| 14 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 15 | The Soviet Interior Ministry denied responsibility for the affair , claiming that the Lithuanian Procurator subordinate to Trubin had ordered the search ( there were currently two Lithuanian Procurators , one subordinate to Trubin and the other to the Lithuanian President ) . |
| 16 | The situation whereby damage to commercial buildings caused by terrorism was covered by the insured 's standard fire policy was one that was unique to Britain and the new ruling brings this country into line with continental Europe where the terrorist risk has , for a number of years , required additional cover . |
| 17 | It was obvious to Robbie that the bitch was likely to give birth very soon . |
| 18 | The loss was important and embarrassing to Modi and the somewhat impatient tone of his next letter to Zbo suggests that he was annoyed at having to return to the subject : |
| 19 | What on earth would people think if Miriam started talking of a gentleman 's natural functions in front of the wedding guests when she and Fleury got married ; in some ways the prospect of such a solecism seemed more terrible to Louise than the possibility of one or both of them not surviving the siege . |
| 20 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 21 | He is married to Wendy and the couple have two young children , Peter and Timothy . |
| 22 | The one from Catherine the Great to Potiemkin and the other one , the Orlov snuff box ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ IFN might be helpful to Joe but no decision has been taken . ’ |
| 24 | Somehow it appeared undignified to Dexter because the TV reporter 's face was so classically handsome . |
| 25 | But the petitionary aspect of prayer is not as important to Gandhi as the communion aspect . |
| 26 | That I became a more understanding teacher was very much due to Basil and the tradition which he had established . |
| 27 | Furthermore , whatever the unease felt in London when Washington later decided that the bombers should be stationed permanently in Britain , this was accepted as part of the price that had to be paid in order to bind the Americans as tightly as possible to Nato and the defence of Europe . |
| 28 | Civil disobedience on the Gandhian pattern was still strange to Britain and no one knew exactly what to do next . |
| 29 | Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot . |
| 30 | It was apparent to Cassie that the discovery that she wore very little beneath her outer clothing had had a powerfully erotic effect upon him , and now he pushed aside the bodice and gazed at her breast , at the same time remarking appreciatively : ‘ You 're an astonishing girl , Cassie . |