Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polar communities of plants and animals testify to their own hardiness and adaptability , but also to positive advantages of polar living that ecologists from warmer climates tend to forget . |
| 2 | Much will depend on how the parties react to his own proposals , foreshadowed in an important speech in Liverpool last month and to be discussed with Dick Spring tomorrow . |
| 3 | My grateful thanks go to them all . |
| 4 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
| 5 | My kids write to me all the time . ’ |
| 6 | But , again , I simplify : the process is two-way and black kids contribute to their own general lack of success at school by manifesting little desire to learn conventional subjects . |
| 7 | The closer refugees remain to their own countries , the easier it is to organise their return when conditions allow . |
| 8 | As individual cities look to their own government the mercantile Burgomeisters gain in power . |
| 9 | Part of the reason why Roman catholics go to their own schools is because they believe they are obliged to do so . |
| 10 | You should enquire what the rules are and additionally , to give you a better idea of what size pension you might realistically expect , you could ask for some practical examples — say , over the last five years — of retired individuals in a similar earnings bracket to your own . |
| 11 | Hospital administration can refuse patients access to their own money and this can cause immense damage to the patients ' dignity and self esteem . |
| 12 | Our congratulations and best wishes go to them both . |
| 13 | While the subordination of time and space to narrative causality is shared with many literary forms , and while many twentieth-century literary and artistic forms adapt to their own purposes the principles of montage and the manipulation of time and space learned from cinema , the cut as a fundamental figure of the rhetoric and the immediate experience of narrative — field/reverse-field where the slash represents a cut , or the conventional point-of-view structure of look/object/look — gives cinema a generic specificity . |
| 14 | The patination of the wood and the delightful patchwork of sheet-iron repairs testify to its many years of service . |
| 15 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 16 | So , when it comes to the very physical activity of making art , many women turn to their own bodies or images of women 's bodies as a vehicle for making images , for making meaning . |