Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 2 | He was happily surprised to find that the cottage did indeed live up to Coleridge 's estimate of it , possessing ‘ every thing that heart could desire ’ , including a small flower garden and a climbing rose which Coleridge was soon to commemorate in verse . |
| 3 | But there was a consolation prize : Wolfgang 's little Singspiel Bastien und Bastienne — a tale of thwarted love put right by the intervention of a sorcerer — was performed privately at the home of Dr Mesmer , the celebrated inventor of magnetic mesmerism ( which Mozart was later to parody in Così fan tutte ) . |
| 4 | In effect , it was the mass application of a tactic Franco was frequently to apply in the political arena : divide and rule . |
| 5 | The purpose in setting side by side the careers of Hocazade and Civizade is simply to compare in a very broad way the careers of two not unrepresentative scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively in order to show the degree to which the hierarchy had developed during this period ; and what one may fairly infer from the comparison is limited . |