Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Incest and necrophilia were as nothing to the amorous Egyptian gods . |
2 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
3 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
4 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |
5 | The path took me under trees in full leaf and out across open fields where below me to the left the river Bain , the shortest river in England , flowed on its two-and-a-half-mile journey from Semer Water to the river Ure . |
6 | Some tests may involve chemicals which need to be handled with care , but this should not preclude the sale of them to the general public in kits which include protective goggles and detailed instructions on their handling . |
7 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
8 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |
9 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
10 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
11 | It is also provided that where a person , not named as a respondent , is in occupation , the originating application and other documents may be served by affixing a copy of them to the main door or other conspicuous part , and , if practicable , inserting them through the letter box , or by placing stakes in the ground with the documents ( in a transparent sealed envelope ) attached . |
12 | The bankruptcy order is settled by the court in Form 6.25 in Schedule 4 to the rules ( r 6.33 ) , see Appendix C , form 32 , and the court must send at least two sealed copies to the official receiver who must send one of them to the bankrupt and cause the order to be entered in the register of writs and orders at the land registry and be advertised in the London Gazette and local newspaper ( r 6.34 ) . |
13 | The cultural and psychological elaboration of these various motives of course raises difficulties for any simple relation of them to the biological . |
14 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |
15 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
16 | Another key element in Russian culture was alcohol , the unscrupulous introduction of which to the unsophisticated natives by traders led in many cases to addiction , loss of the means of livelihood and eventual pauperization . |
17 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
18 | Though in the mid-850s Burgred , king of Mercia , and the West Saxon king , Aethelwulf , joined together in a campaign against the Welsh without any indication of the subordination of one to the other ( see below , p. 195 ) , the evidence as a whole suggests a West Saxon subjection to the Mercians in the mid-eighth century . |
19 | But erm , you know , it 's , it 's like erm , if you talk about erm , funding per head or funding for the , for the overall spaces , you know , if it 's Mr , he always wants to be funded by the , the mile of roadblock for the population , because we have rather a lot of one to the other , and I think there may be a similar situation with the police . |
20 | Divide the party players into pairs of roughly equal sizes and tie the right leg of one to the left leg of the other . |
21 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
22 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |
23 | I had the impression of a cautious , reflective man , who would take his work seriously and perform what was required of him to the best of his ability . |
24 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
25 | In short , it may be illuminating to start with the damage and work back through the cause of it to the possible duty which may have been broken . |
26 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
27 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
28 | Then , bracing herself , she strode to the top of the staircase and stood gazing down the wide , sweeping curve of it to the imposing hallway and the big front door . |
29 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
30 | Sift the flour and ground rice together and add one third of it to the creamed mixture . |