Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's time for you to take breakfast to the labourer at the kiln ! ’ |
| 2 | He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the |
| 3 | As for service , it is not for me to give value to the two halves of my equation . ’ |
| 4 | Have the bowman on the front of the boat and get him to indicate distance to the line with his fingers . |
| 5 | THE owner of a derelict boarding house was accused yesterday of killing a friend who had allegedly helped him to set fire to the building in an ‘ insurance job ’ . |
| 6 | In this year , the 25th anniversary of Shelter , does the Minister agree that the time is right for him to give effect to the Prime Minister 's boast in his letter of support to Shelter that the Government would employ public expenditure where necessary ? |
| 7 | It might have been slightly more gracious of him to pay tribute to the work of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in getting this universal and non-discriminatory register of arms transfers recom-mended to the Assembly . |
| 8 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 9 | In thanking my right hon. Friend for that answer , may I ask him to have regard to the stresses and strains that already exist in a predominantly Christian European Community and to consider whether they would be increased if we admitted to the Community nations with a predominantly Islamic culture ? |
| 10 | He also arranged with the school resource centre for him to have access to the library area at certain periods , during which he could relax with a book or magazine . |
| 11 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 12 | He attended schools in Bishop Auckland , Gainford , and Glasgow , after which his family connections helped him to gain entry to the music-hall , as a ‘ boy ’ comedian . |
| 13 | What he had learnt in the Borinage was that human suffering of the most basic sort somehow activated his creative energies , as well as enabling him to gain access to the depths of his own nature . |
| 14 | Educational success provided him with the means of breaching the barrier of his lowly birth and enabled him to gain access to the lower echelons of the petty bourgeoisie as an engineer in the French railway system . |
| 15 | They need not prove that the accused had it with him with the intention of using it to cause injury to the person . |
| 16 | Nevertheless s32(1) requires the court to draw up a timetable for disposing of the case without delay and s1(2) requires it to have regard to the general principle that any delay is likely to prejudice the child . |
| 17 | They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance . |
| 18 | It conjectures that God/dess , the Source , the Universe , the Force , the Light — or whatever term you wish to use — just might prefer us to enjoy life to the full , to open ourselves to the joy and abundance of the universe ; that All That Is is perhaps a loving force , and does not want us to endure sorrow , poverty and hardship . |
| 19 | Especially important are records that will allow us to give life to the many stories history can tell . |
| 20 | The philosophy of the phantasm may , however , help us to do justice to the event of Foucault himself . |
| 21 | So the idea of higher education as a fulcrum for critiquing society can be resurrected — must be resurrected — and still allow us to do justice to the internal integrity of students ' programmes of study . |
| 22 | This choice allows us to accord primacy to the authority 's interpretation , while still preserving judicial control . |