Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Banbridge put themselves within touching distance of their first title since 1988 owes much to their battling qualities . |
| 2 | The striking exception among the super-egos is Professor Charles Handy , a modest and witty Irishman with a spiritual perspective which owes much to his four years as warden of St George 's House in Windsor Castle , a private study and conference centre in the UK concerned with ethics and values in society . |
| 3 | He is survived by his wife , Margaret Forbes , whom he married in 1933 , and who contributed to much to his many spheres of activity , and by a son in Australia and a daughter . |
| 4 | Labour MPs are now , of course , thrashing through the business of submitting themselves winsomely to their local parties . |
| 5 | Most people derive satisfaction from exhibiting their bodies , or parts of their bodies , to others ; especially to their sexual partners . |
| 6 | Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess . |
| 7 | ‘ The critic , I hold , should be loyal enough to his own impressions to confess to what is probably due to his own defects . |
| 8 | In all these ways ‘ Sweet William 's Ghost ’ is analogous to The Lord of the Rings , and even more so to its embedded songs and verses . |
| 9 | Its importance as a fore-runner was due less to its political ideas than to its military discipline and its administrative personnel , who were later to help organize the day-to-day running of the BUF . |
| 10 | That the leopard still survives across such a wide range is due not only to its remarkable gifts of concealment but also to its secretive lifestyle . |
| 11 | she owes a great deal , not only to her natural gifts , but to your tuition . |
| 12 | They often over-rely on their appearance as a means of relating , although they feel cheated when they perceive others as responding only to their physical attributes . |
| 13 | The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists . |
| 14 | Not only to their own families , but also to charities , often in thanks for their own good fortune . |
| 15 | A programme which will be of interest not only to our 1,400 pilgrims of ‘ 92 but also to all members of the Diocese . |
| 16 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 17 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 18 | At about 10.45 he had met William Day , who had also been working late , and they had travelled together to their appropriate homes , the houses being a stone 's throw from each other . |
| 19 | Two laboratory studies which attempted to assess the effects of real-life stresses on dreams used patients either awaiting major surgery or undergoing group therapy , in which they had to prepare themselves for a session devoted entirely to their own problems . |
| 20 | Similarly , with the patients anticipating and then undergoing a " focus session " of the psychotherapeutic group devoted entirely to their own problems , there was evidence that this traumatic event clearly affected dream content . |
| 21 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 22 | Mr O'Hara smiled when Ellie showed him her selections upstairs in his private office , and sent them straight back downstairs to their various departments . |
| 23 | Supply would remain in the hands of crooks who would continue to push , but with total impunity , not just to their existing customers but as hard as they could to new ones as well . |
| 24 | Although George III 's government behaved generously to their recent enemies , the French felt hard done by . |
| 25 | Non-Russian papers were left to local military supervision until the end of Civil War , and largely to their own devices throughout 1922 , unless they exhibited blatant defiance of high political directives , as in the case of Georgia . |
| 26 | Eventually this policy was abandoned because it was unprofitable for the Russian state treasury , and from then until the early twentieth century the Chukchis had the distinction of being recognized as ‘ not completely subdued ’ , and were left largely to their own devices . |
| 27 | By his day the sort of German pressure on Denmark experienced by Harald Bluetooth was a thing of the past , for Henry was fully occupied with campaigns in Italy and Lotharingia , and especially against Cnut 's uncle Boleslav of Poland , and may have troubled little about Swegen and Cnut , who were presumably happy to leave the Germans largely to their own devices while they were subjugating England . |
| 28 | Though this project is principally concerned with the city of Edinburgh its relevance is much wider , to British cities in general and it is expected that it will demonstrate how land-owners , builders , house factors and other interests in property were able to control the pace and pattern of urban development largely to their own ends without recognising the long term consequences for the physical shape and quality of the housing and building stock and its long term impact on modern society in terms of street lay outs , maintenance and repairs , and the availability of open spaces . |
| 29 | Congressional approval of his plan was due largely to his own efforts and strengths ’ . |
| 30 | Murtach and Ratagan had joined the council , and Riven was left largely to his own devices . |