Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " . |
| 2 | A tentative reply to these questions we think would be that an attempt to construct a purely feminist demand around housing presents major problems , in the way that demands around financial independence , sexuality , childcare and so on , do not . |
| 3 | And then with a final glance to either side he turned and walked off towards the main gate . |
| 4 | If we ask the acoustic front end to leave some of the labelling to lexical access it will do so with a vengeance since it has no way of knowing what dilemmas need resolving at the lexical level . |
| 5 | If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% . |
| 6 | In most of the prisons , corruption has become a way of life and inmates believe that without taking recourse to corrupt practices they can not cope with the culture that prevails . |
| 7 | For Byrd 's finest expression of religious emotion to English words we must turn to his Psalmes , Sonets and songs of Sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) , his Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ) , and his Psalmes , Songs and Sonnets ( 1611 ) , which include equivalents of the geistlicher Gesang and madrigale spirituale though often conceived with instrumental parts ; for his greatest church music to his two hundred or so motets . |
| 8 | Regional policy may not be a major strand of governmental intervention and in the short to medium term it is destined to decline in importance . |
| 9 | So in the medium term , the short to medium term I think we need to base what we 're doing very much on existing establishments and existing workloads . |
| 10 | He has written a five page article about his illness in a Darlington medical journal and to celebrate his gradual return to good health he has started to learn the piano . |
| 11 | On his return to civvy street he sharpened his skills on aero-engines with Armstrong Siddeley 's Cheetah , Adder , Viper , Mamba , Python and Double-Mambas , the full range of Sapphire jet engines , as well as the Rolls-Royce Avon . |
| 12 | In the current political and strategic context , it seems right to conclude , with Falk , that in the application of international law to nuclear weapons it is of overriding importance to minimise reliance on nuclear weapons and emphasise the sharp distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons ( Falk , 1983 , p. 538 ) . |
| 13 | Ours is a voice which can not be ignored , but if we are to use our influence to full effect we must both recognise and be capable of using our strengths . |
| 14 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
| 15 | With reference to old photographs it was decided that the bridge could be replaced with one similar to the original pre-1930 structure . |
| 16 | As soon as you hear a reference to Third World you know what it means even if some of its shades of meaning are deleterious to your grand hopes of creating One World out of its lunatic divisions and separatisms . |
| 17 | If you propose a change of plan to most men they take it — even if not consciously , and that 's often worse — as some sort of insult or criticism . |
| 18 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 19 | In an Exhortation to Released Prisoners they pleaded with them not to pursue their former vices of Folly , Extravagance and Dissipation . |
| 20 | By taking the voltage to +0.5 V they returned to the original low resistance , and this cycle could be repeated many times . |
| 21 | I think if you asked that question to any poet he 'd probably give that answer . |
| 22 | It would be more accurate to say that although we do not have a right to such things we do have freedom to do them . |
| 23 | We know that Rod Mansfield of Ford 's SVE ( now engineering director at Aston Martin ) fought a battle to get decently shaped seats in the SVE-developed cabrio , and a huge difference to that car they make . |
| 24 | In the 1970s when feminism first drew attention to sexist language it also argued that sexism was deeply rooted in our attitudes precisely because of the power of language to make sexist terms appear to describe permanent cultural values . |
| 25 | By drawing attention to these links I have no wish to insist on the virtues of ‘ ordinary language ’ analysis . |
| 26 | Coincidentally Tony mentioned ‘ that as a result of the move to central Leamington we are now fitter and healthier as we have all joined the local gym for keep fit sessions in the lunch hour . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ ( 1 ) The consent of a minor who has attained the age of 16 years to any surgical , medical or dental treatment which , in the absence of consent , would constitute a trespass to his person , shall be as effective as it would be if he were of full age ; and where a minor has by virtue of this section given an effective consent to any treatment it shall not be necessary to obtain any consent for it from his parent or guardian . |
| 28 | ‘ ( 1 ) The consent of a minor who has attained the age of 16 years to any … medical … treatment which , in the absence of consent , would constitute a trespass to his person , shall be as effective as it would be if he were of full age ; and where a minor has by virtue of this section given an effective consent to any treatment it shall not be necessary to obtain any consent for it from his parent or guardian . |
| 29 | When one heard him giving vent to this view it was difficult to resist the conclusion that justice and truth were on his side . |
| 30 | Let all Americans — all of us together here in this chamber , the symbolic centre of democracy — affirm our allegiance to this idea we call America . |