Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In D & F Estates Ltd v. Church Commissioners for England and Wales [ 1988 ] 2 All ER 992 ( HL ) , the House of Lords distinguished Junior Books v. Veitchi as being peculiar to its own facts . |
| 2 | The party may have put on a collar and tie but it is still the Labour Party , prone to its old reflexes ( as it reminded us yesterday on defence spending ) , prisoner still of its anachronistic structure , its mind set in 100 years of working-class history . |
| 3 | Similarly , among the lower species , their communication is by sound , by smell , by sight , by a multitude of strange senses unfamiliar to our human minds , and by gesture and by inward intent . |
| 4 | Designed in San Francisco by Paul Chandler , these guitars are faithful to their '60s roots . |
| 5 | For when I speak of the community being faithful to its own principles I do not mean its conventional or popular morality , the beliefs and convictions of most citizens . |
| 6 | The cowboy , by contrast , stays faithful to his British films , however limited their ambition , becomes a director and goes on to make serious pictures . |
| 7 | All those connected with salmon fishing , the hotel business , the tourist industry and those who just feel incensed by this cavalier treatment from London , should make it clear to their own MPs that they will do all they can to make the Government 's position even more precarious . |
| 8 | As Brew notes , what now matters is whether large , often arrogant companies want to be truly transparent to their varied audiences . |
| 9 | They buy in bulk from manufacturers and importers , and distribute direct to their retail outlets . |
| 10 | Some internees were resident German-speakers , British only by background ; others were a large squad of Merchant Navy officers and seamen , British to their tough cores . |
| 11 | Benedict imprisoned her closer , oblivious to her grubby hands caught against the pristine whiteness of his neckcloth . |
| 12 | Athelstan stared at the hubbub around them , the people oblivious to his dark thoughts of murder , fighting their way through the stalls , gossiping , talking , buying and selling , engaged in everyday matters . |
| 13 | He bombarded us in his zest for education , entertainment and , indeed , any intellectual exercise , but in the early days was oblivious to our hesitant reactions . |
| 14 | If we may imagine bat brains as building up an image of the world analogous to our visual images , the pulse rate alone seems to suggest that the bat 's echo image might be at least as detailed and " continuous " as our visual image . |
| 15 | He was aware of the accusation frequently levelled at doctors of his sort , that they are charming to their private patients who pay them , while treating like so many malfunctioning machines their National Health patients who merely pay the state . |
| 16 | In the past , many of these businesses have arisen almost ‘ naturally ’ as contiguous to our existing areas of skills . |
| 17 | As he adds detail he records it simply to his own satisfaction and in a form adequate to his own purposes . |
| 18 | They could not develop an agreed political ideology , they were tainted with the ‘ red ’ smear , and they had less success than the IRA in making themselves acceptable to their own communities . |
| 19 | The idea of Gods as metaphors for the principles underlying the forces of nature was central to the abstract nature of the Indian mind and imbued their philosophy and mythology with a lyricism and beauty foreign to our twentieth-century sensibilities . |
| 20 | there 's Fred then and Hipner and they all like being cuddled to do n't they ? lovely Does n't he look different to his other parts . |
| 21 | ‘ We Scots are a very independent race , and totally different to our English neighbours . |
| 22 | It 's totally different to my own children . |
| 23 | In what ways is this different to your other states of mind and being ? |
| 24 | So boys flocked to take up these jobs which were harmful to their long-term interests and , therefore , philanthropists felt moved to interfere by ‘ choking off ’ the juvenile supply and by turning juvenile labourers into skilled workers . |
| 25 | Fossil representatives of lampreys and hagfishes may be found in the Upper Carboniferous ( 230Myr BP ) where , in most preserved details , they are similar to their modern counterparts . |
| 26 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 27 | Research shows that nine out of 10 people , or thereabouts , are similar to their Whiskas-guzzling cats in preferring something tasty . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Saddam draws together any useful ideologies , favourable to his own ambitions and personal glory . |
| 30 | A colourless gas with a faint tang , it can produce narcosis and even ( after a lengthy exposure at a concentration of 5 per cent or more ) unconsciousness and death , but it is as a greenhouse gas emitted in the course of producing man-made energy that it has become central to our end-of-century concerns . |