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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Film girl tells court of Minister 's regular trips to her luxury home |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most people study psychology because they want to understand human behaviour and question the relevance of work on animals to their overall goal . |
| 10 | He seemed arrested by her laughter , she saw , as she watched his glance go from the merriment in her eyes to her laughing mouth . |
| 11 | Two ants were attached by their pincers to her left arm . |
| 12 | There are many ‘ old wives ’ tales that relate horses ' temperaments to their physical appearance — such as all chestnut mares are excitable and unpredictable . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | Where it is impossible to restore the parties to their pre-contract positions , e.g. if the purchaser has consumed the goods . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One feature of Le Mans was the famous race across the track by drivers to their unstarted cars . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Germany was too desperate about its own sense of identity and too bound up in attempting false solutions to its internal problems to realise this . |
| 20 | But in its stupid quest for short-term solutions to our economic woes , the Government is prepared to lose this precious heritage for ever . |
| 21 | Creative solutions to our ecological problems ? |
| 22 | PUPILS at Distington Junior School in Cumbria have made a host of new , long-distance penpals thanks to their close links with Sellafield . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Blacks are presumed to be the superior race , largely thanks to their emotional temperaments and intuitive thinking , and whites to be inferior , because of their repressed feelings and addiction to bloodless rationality . |
| 25 | COLLEGIANS won an evenly contested game thanks to their alert back row . |
| 26 | And thanks to their accurate quartz movement you need never be behind time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The strings , thanks to their numerical superiority , are able to hold their own against the brass far more successfully than can the woodwind . |
| 30 | The Boring Institute of America placed the royals first thanks to their never-ending marriage troubles . |