Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC would also like Encore to buy some Alpha AXP systems and offer them in place of its real-time 91 and 93 systems , as well as building successors to its parallel Infinity 90 machines out of Alpha microprocessors . |
| 2 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 3 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 4 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , by selective choice , the articulate , financially secure and politically active can also indirectly contribute to school failure — not perhaps in their district and their child 's school , but in the schools and districts to which such influence is never brought ( or the area from which they have moved away ) . |
| 6 | On extended trips to their native land they produced vigorous and fluent drawings and sketches of their dramatic and mountainous country using all their collected expertise to capture and convey that image or Norway by which we know it today . |
| 7 | Film girl tells court of Minister 's regular trips to her luxury home |
| 8 | Most people study psychology because they want to understand human behaviour and question the relevance of work on animals to their overall goal . |
| 9 | He seemed arrested by her laughter , she saw , as she watched his glance go from the merriment in her eyes to her laughing mouth . |
| 10 | Two ants were attached by their pincers to her left arm . |
| 11 | There are many ‘ old wives ’ tales that relate horses ' temperaments to their physical appearance — such as all chestnut mares are excitable and unpredictable . |
| 12 | Chirac had to be seen to be making concessions to his defeated rival Le Barre in order to get Le Barre 's support for the run-off against Mitterand . |
| 13 | This template , called NORMAL.DOT , is a series of menu definitions , dialogue box settings and styles to which each Word document defaults in the absence of a customised template . |
| 14 | Thanks to a fantastic response by WWF supporters to our African elephant appeal ( over £300,000 in the UK alone so far in 1989 ) , we have been able to step up vital elephant conservation projects on the ground in Africa . |
| 15 | THOSE Sassenachs , like me , who make regular pilgrimages to your magnificent country to fish inevitably become lost in admiration for the scenery and for its inhabitants . |
| 16 | This was to come to light two years later when the Football Association appointed a commission to inquire into allegations that Sir Henry had offered financial inducements above the legal fees to attract players to Highbury and that he had diverted club funds to his private account . |
| 17 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 18 | In June a settlement agent in Fort Worth , Texas , was indicted for embezzlement , an agent in Birmingham , Alabama , was found guilty of the theft of $168,000 , and a computer operator in Denver , Colorado , was found to have transferred $313,127 in HUD funds to his own account . |
| 19 | To transfer funds to your Higher Rate Deposit Account from your Barclays current account or vice versa , you can save on shoe leather simply by giving us your instructions over the telephone . |
| 20 | Davis , who had a break of 71 , commented : ‘ I had to adopt totally different tactics to my last match . |
| 21 | By that he meant the rich , using their wealth , are able to manipulate the flow of information and images to their own advantage . |
| 22 | Their influence was nevertheless far greater than numerical weakness might suggest , thanks to their individual wealth and their connections with powerful financial , industrial and landowning interests . |
| 23 | COLLEGIANS won an evenly contested game thanks to their alert back row . |
| 24 | And thanks to their accurate quartz movement you need never be behind time . |
| 25 | Thanks to their all-round experience and in particular to planning the marketing skills , the board of an advertising agency is generally largely drawn from the account side , although a medium-to-large agency would almost certainly also have creative , media , research and financial representatives . |
| 26 | Thanks to their extensive plagiarism from the Old Testament , Clement argued , Plato and the Greek philosophers had found out many true things and expressed them in beautiful language . |
| 27 | The strings , thanks to their numerical superiority , are able to hold their own against the brass far more successfully than can the woodwind . |
| 28 | The Boring Institute of America placed the royals first thanks to their never-ending marriage troubles . |
| 29 | And , thanks to their uncompromising commitment to the highest quality and service standards , Forte 's famous roadside names are growing fast . |
| 30 | The Night Goblins continued to harass the Dwarf column all the way to the Citadel , but thanks to their heavy armour and natural toughness there were few more casualties . |