Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
2 | Employers will , of course , want to make clear to you the level of personal responsibility you will be expected to take within the remit of your job description ( for a sample job description , see chapter 2 ) , but this does n't necessarily mean that they are trying to warn off the less confident . |
3 | Why , it is in the power of Jesus to whom all authority in heaven and earth is entrusted ; this Jesus is with them always in their mission , to the end of the age ; and naturally , therefore , they baptise men not only into the possession , the ‘ name ’ , of God the Father and the Lord Jesus , but into the sphere of that Holy Spirit who makes real to them the presence of the risen Christ , and empowers them for their work of making him known ( Matt. 28:18–20 ) . |
4 | He 'd been damned rude to her the night before , not to say insulting . |
5 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
6 | Our success is due to you the readers , whose loyalty and support has made it all possible . |
7 | The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon . |
8 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
9 | These worldwide resources are available to you the Northern Ireland exporter/importer here in Belfast . |
10 | Well I think , probably ought to make it clear of course that we wo n't have available to us the greenbelt local plan enquiry , so |
11 | But the assumption , doubtful in itself , that in a Co-operative Community the distinction would have had no meaning does not explain why , when in the real world of Rochdale in the 1850s the distinction became apparent to them the Pioneers chose to set up the production arm as a separate society . |
12 | First , there is a general lack of appreciation of just how critical to us the Earth 's biological resources are . |
13 | Open to us the door of your eyes . |
14 | As far as I am concerned , she was dead to me the moment she walked out the door . ’ |
15 | John was invited to have dinner with Balanchine , and to his surprise the latter proposed to him the theme , music and designer to be used . |
16 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |
17 | But unknown to him the fate of Leeds City was no longer in his hands ; it was being decided , along with that of every other club in the country , by a totally unrelated event in a faraway city in Eastern Europe . |