Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 2 | His marriage to Doreen 's mother , who was the epitome of affection and kindness to her only daughter , was a stormy affair . |
| 3 | The women wait anxiously and when the boat returns one of its crew has been lost , causing inconsolable grief to his young wife . |
| 4 | Her eyes dropped of their own accord to his hard mouth . |
| 5 | According to the Suda , Simonides of Magnesia sang of a victory by Antiochus III over the Gauls , about which we know nothing — unless it is to be identified with the episode to which II Maccabees refers as a success by eight thousand Babylonian Jews and four thousand Macedonians against Galatian raiders ( 8.20 ) . |
| 6 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow gave a Valentine 's card to her former lover Woody Allen showing a steak knife plunged into her chest , his friends said last night . |
| 7 | I would argue that the persuasive force of these statements owes a great deal to their teleological format . |
| 8 | But his recovery also owes a great deal to his personal courage . |
| 9 | The boost to their growing jurisdiction came when the Royal Commission on Trades Unions and Employers ' Associations ( Donovan Commission ) of 1968 approved the extension of tribunal jurisdiction ( Donovan , 1968 ) . |
| 10 | Mr Litman refused to discuss details of the money involved but his Russian associates are clearly expecting a considerable boost to their meagre pensions . |
| 11 | Let's not , however , dwell on negative aspects of what was after all a further morale boost to our international prospects . |
| 12 | Mr Bush 's clear determination to continue with America 's global role added force to his blunt rejection of Gorbachev 's call for naval nuclear disarmament . |
| 13 | Paul 's teaching must have come with all the more force to his original hearers . |
| 14 | The greetings — ‘ with love , Father ’ and ‘ to a dear Daddy ’ — had an empty , hollow ring to them five Christmases later . |
| 15 | Ring of bright gas : by comparing the real diameter of the ring to its apparent diameter , astronomers have calculated its distance from Earth |
| 16 | We turn ow to their numerical treatment . |
| 17 | Right here feedback to your respective manager as regards to your sales figures so please stick to that format for today and tomorrow everyone clear on what we have for today , yeah ? . |
| 18 | They are designed to prevent member states from using these prudential provisions to limit investment to their own government securities or shares . |
| 19 | That business and the state have spent so much effort in explaining why employment has to be more flexible is testament to their previous success in establishing lifetime employment as a longstanding cultural practice . |
| 20 | The UK trade deficit of £1 billion plus in the depths of recession is testament to our insatiable appetite for , mainly Japanese , imports . |
| 21 | It is interesting to compare this fact with the ridicule to which some experts were exposed for developing fermentation methods of producing penicillin — ‘ obviously to be a flop ’ . |
| 22 | Reports from the US suggest that Covia 's software will also be snapped up by Sun Microsystems Inc , which could OEM CI as an add-on to its Open Networking Computing environment . |
| 23 | If that turned out to be possible , it might suggest there is access from a higher level to quite remote lower-level translations , unless one was prepared to redescribe such a phenomenon in terms of our ( levels of programming language ) metaphor as ‘ This patient has found out how to access a highest level command GROW A NEW NERVE TO YOUR LEFT FOOT though without , of course , having any access to the translation of that command in terms of the nerve cell processes themselves . ’ |
| 24 | Social classes often have their own particular behaviour , purchase and consumption patterns , and tend to limit their closest relationships , social intercourse and friendship to their own kind . |
| 25 | The Prussian Finance Minister , von Motz , explained to the King in 1829 that he saw the economic union of Germany as the prelude to its political unification ‘ under the protection of Prussia ’ . |
| 26 | As a prelude to its promised Sun 10 SuperSparc clone ( UX No 392 ) , the thing will initially come with one or two 40MHz Cypress Semiconductor Corp Sparcs of the sort used by Sun in its Sparcserver 600MP series . |
| 27 | Indeed MacArthur was concerned almost wholly with the culmination to his four-year struggle against the Japanese and was determined to accept the formal surrender himself as a prelude to his new role as the reformer of Japanese society . |
| 28 | A well-observed story , with admirable performances , Two Left Feet gave Crawford some comical scenes that were a prelude to his later role as Frank Spencer on television . |
| 29 | Although Senator Evans tried to minimise the political overtones of this exhibition , Prime Minister Keating 's opening speech was seen as a prelude to his forthcoming trip to Asia , while a message from Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia was a clear indicator of the new diplomatic links between the two countries . |
| 30 | Fearing that any investigation into this anti-communist network might be a prelude to his own eviction from the presidential palace , Mr Cossiga has tried to fight off all attempts to question him about Gladio . |