Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ?
2 Cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith , a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape .
3 Second , again the suspicion must creep back that the exclusive concentration on the individual blinds one to the real business of government , which is to co-ordinate and control large populations .
4 He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work .
5 Ferocity is demonstrated , and the force of it received , through : ( a ) the ritual killing of a mythical , fierce and excellent hunter , ( b ) the ceremonial ( and actual ) rape of women , where a woman from each clan is chosen as object , and ( c ) a ceremonial pantomime of attack which opposes the moieties one to the other : one side in fierce , scowling stamping dance moves against a man of the opposite moiety who must not flinch , even if trampled ( Maybury-Lewis 1971 : 257 ) .
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