Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’ |
| 2 | Denise Alexander said : ‘ People throughout the North of England have been fantastically generous to us in the past year . ’ |
| 3 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |
| 4 | For the Holy Spirit and hope are two sides of the same coin ; respectively the objective and the subjective modes in which the future is made real to us in the present . |
| 5 | Ramsey was very rude to him in the debate . |
| 6 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 7 | I wish your husband would make some good , cheap sweets , ’ she said , and then said — almost tenderly — ‘ he was very good to me in the difficult days ’ . |
| 8 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 9 | Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and not sure about Friday evening and er she said then she 'll have trouble getting the money over that 's out of them , why the redundancy because been there over two year , so I presume redundancy or holidays or both so Sue said to her well if they were so good to you in the past , but that ai n't the point is it ? |
| 10 | And perhaps most important of all was her ability to take whatever was sustaining and useful to her in the mid-nineteenth century 's version of ‘ womanliness ’ and ‘ domesticity ’ and to reject those elements which stifled , maimed and , sometimes literally , maddened other women . |
| 11 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 12 | ‘ Tell Lady Franklin , ’ Gould instructed his wife in a letter to Hobart , ‘ I have her little page with me , he is a most interesting little fellow , throws the spear and waddy with the utmost dexterity and [ is ] extremely useful to me in the bush , an eye like a hawk discovers birds nests & eggs in a most astonishing manner . ’ |
| 13 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 14 | In the synthesized notation , an earlier letter than the letters prior to it in the notation signals a new facet ; for example , B , F , M and W in the above signal new facets . |
| 15 | Linfield chairman , David Campbell said today : ‘ This is a fantastic capture for us — an experienced player who will be invaluable to us in the European Cup . ’ |
| 16 | We 'll be covering all kinds of software and peripherals applicable to you in the coming months . |
| 17 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 18 | Congenial or not , the truth had been made evident to her in the spread . |
| 19 | On the contrary it is complementary to them in the sense that its comparative advantage rests with analyses of secular economic developments whereas the existing models ' comparative advantage rests with the short-term developments . |
| 20 | you 're doing and yet you 're doing this tour of Alfie , which is obviously very important to us in the |
| 21 | I feel we will 've achieved significant progress if we have turned , I did n't know you worked in the United Kingdom , into it 's good to know that the rights and needs of children are just as important to you in the United Kingdom as they are overseas . |
| 22 | " Does anything seem strange to you in the scene ? " |
| 23 | I 'm quite used to it in the House of Commons … . |
| 24 | It 's always a shock when summat 's different , but you get used to it in the end . |
| 25 | People got used to it in the war but now … well , time will soften the blow . |
| 26 | If inflationary pressures began to mount in Britain there would be no ‘ soft option ’ or ‘ quick fix ’ available to her in the form of devaluing her way out of trouble . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman must use the time available to him in the normal way to debate that matter . |
| 28 | 12 Hartley 's essay was available to them in the exhibition brochure , where Stieglitz had reprinted it , and a second commentary about O'Keeffe by Rosenfeld had appeared in Vanity Fair the previous october . |
| 29 | One of the reasons why play is so absorbing is that it is self-initiated , in a way that is not available to us in the process of combatting , enduring or avoiding the slings and arrows of day-to-day living . |
| 30 | The sequence of studies we have carried out have derived from the tools available to us in the context of psychological and linguistic expertise . |