Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sees through his unctuous manners to his black-hearted designs , and shoots him on the spot , but it too late , and she is surrounded by Kuomintang forces . |
| 2 | The nature of these policies determines the risks to which long-term funds are exposed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This backlash has meant many dog owners having to confine their pets to their own gardens for exercise and toilet use which , of course , leads to the problem of how to dispose of the dogs ' faeces . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | MANY City stockbrokers , advertising agencies and banking houses are paying substantial bonuses to their high-earning staff to beat the effects of a substantial increase in taxes in the wake of a possible Labour victory on April 9 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Film girl tells court of Minister 's regular trips to her luxury home |
| 12 | Joe had met up with Benny again on one of his rare trips to his old haunts and offered him a job , which Benny was glad to accept . |
| 13 | I paid surreptitious trips to our old homes in Ada Street and West Avenue , where the fences my father had put up for Granny Kirkup before the war — in 1934 , I believe — were still standing round the long garden of ‘ Mundesley ’ , named after my grandmother 's birthplace . |
| 14 | This ‘ mini-apartheid ’ was reminiscent of the colonial era , when parts of China were out of bounds to its own people . |
| 15 | Most people study psychology because they want to understand human behaviour and question the relevance of work on animals to their overall goal . |
| 16 | He seemed arrested by her laughter , she saw , as she watched his glance go from the merriment in her eyes to her laughing mouth . |
| 17 | The Manufacturing , Science and Finance Union has issued guidelines to their 600,000 members telling them how to tackle the problem . |
| 18 | The world-renowned store in London 's Knightsbridge has issued guidelines to its 3,500 staff on how they should look at work , it was disclosed yesterday . |
| 19 | Two ants were attached by their pincers to her left arm . |
| 20 | There are many ‘ old wives ’ tales that relate horses ' temperaments to their physical appearance — such as all chestnut mares are excitable and unpredictable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The purpose of any order under subsection ( 2 ) must , in my opinion , be to restore all of the parties to their former positions . |
| 25 | This seems to me to be the minimum information necessary if the order is to be capable of restoring the parties to their former positions . |
| 26 | Where it is impossible to restore the parties to their pre-contract positions , e.g. if the purchaser has consumed the goods . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One feature of Le Mans was the famous race across the track by drivers to their unstarted cars . |
| 29 | The question of budgetary reform aroused considerable tensions between the member states during this period , with Spain and Portugal pressing other member countries to agree to direct more EC funds to its poorer members . |
| 30 | 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 . |