Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nobody else , to the best of our knowledge , gave so much attention and so much space to Rome as Timaeus ; and nobody else was so influential . |
| 2 | I agree entirely with that sentiment , but I find it hard to understand how she can then be so keen to hand over so much power to Brussels on decisions that affect people at a local level , whether on farming , training or whatever . |
| 3 | Quite obviously , the black population which attached so much importance to Johnson in the early years of the century was very different to the one which looked to Ali for leads in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 4 | No other bishop could have done so much harm to Philip as Conrad . |
| 5 | An Angster recently asked why the music press devotes so much attention to US bands . |
| 6 | ‘ And worse still , ’ she says , ‘ I often worry that my other two children are suffering because I have to give so much attention to Graham . ’ |
| 7 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 8 | In April and May 1988 , having left the initiative over inland offensives for so many years to Iran , the Iraqis launched two swift attacks . |
| 9 | Virginia Woolf was asked once why she stayed married for so many years to Leonard , a man most of her colleagues found to be her intellectual inferior . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly Chopin 's First Sonata has had few champions , so all credit to Leif Ove Andsnes , who , at a mere 22 years old , is already a formidable pianist . |
| 11 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 12 | Somehow that reference to Bruges had thrown her a little . |
| 13 | Anyway another hello to Witney Rugby Club 's Silver Jubilee . |
| 14 | Graham Taylor is hoping that Santa wo n't give away any goals to England 's World Cup opponents — or he might be given the sack . |
| 15 | Sail early this morning to Denderah . |
| 16 | He wrote laconically that night to John Prior Estlin , leaving unstated the bewilderment he evidently felt as he prepared to exchange Somerset for Shropshire . |
| 17 | A year later another branch to Holt , ultimately Cromer , was completed and Melton stood at the centre of a minor railway junction . |
| 18 | Practically all payments to OPEC countries are made in dollars , because this is the traditional means of payment . |
| 19 | Schools in a number of prosperous suburbs are starting to give as much prominence to Egypt as to Greece and Rome in their history courses . |
| 20 | While on a 10-day visit to seven countries in Eastern and Western Europe on Jan. 8-18 , 1990 , Kaifu announced an aid package worth $1,950 million for Poland and Hungary , in so doing committing Japan to granting almost as much aid to Poland and Hungary as Europe 's biggest aid donor , West Germany . |
| 21 | In his memoirs he complained that in the fifties the US gave twice as much aid to Yugoslavia , three times to Turkey and four times to Taiwan . |
| 22 | A good warrior but the Bruces had as much claim to Alexander 's throne as he had , and now the throne was empty . |
| 23 | Christ is the only way to God , but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to him . |
| 24 | Moving on its drive to attract as many ISVs to UnixWare as possible , Univel has kicked off another phase of its developers ' programme that will get the software into vendors ' hands at reduced prices : Independent software vendors can get a Personal Edition bundled with a Software Developers Kit for $600 and a Application Server bundled with a SDK for $900 . |
| 25 | All right , so there was far more depth to Nathan than his media image suggested . |
| 26 | This procedure is unusual in that Genette devotes far more attention to Proust than other narratological studies have to actual texts , and it is also unusual in that Proust 's novel is an infinitely more complex work than those which narrative theories have commonly analyzed : with Boccaccio 's Decameron , Todorov was taking relatively simple specimens as points of reference for his narratological analyses . |
| 27 | A Hornby clockwork train and a Number 4 Meccano set , both of which had given far more pleasure to John Redburn than they had to his son . |
| 28 | The Liberal Democrats would cause even more damage to Britain 's defences . |
| 29 | Terry 's , sold earlier this month to Kraft for £220 million , saw operating profits fall 6 per cent to £13.4 million . |
| 30 | Sometimes this attraction to Jesus happens instantaneously . |