Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Amnesty International claimed on Nov. 1 that some 800 Yemenis had been detained , tortured and ill-treated by Saudi troops since August " for no apparent reason other than their nationality , or their suspected opposition to the Saudi Arabian government 's position on the Gulf crisis " . |
2 | Hollywood 's fictional mode seemed worthless to the lovers of the other arts although they were rarely honest about either the problems facing film-makers or their own responses to the diversified output of the studios . |
3 | Where the child has sufficient understanding the court may want to know his or her likely response to the proposed direction . |
4 | Your sick parent must be mentally fit to make this decision of her own free will , and it does not rob her of the right to make her own decisions as to the spending of her money or her free access to it . |
5 | As we have already said , it is not always necessary to know very much about the individual identity of the sender or receiver , but only certain general facts about his or her social relation to us . |
6 | This has important implications for patient preference as such studies should provide a basis for each person to assign his or her own values to different levels of risk and benefit . |
7 | The first of these lines of research led to the development of so-called creativity tests in which the subject has a free hand to generate his or her own responses to a given problem . |
8 | Among the great moments in the reading programme are those when writing has developed to the point where the learner-reader can read his or her own story to the teacher — a triumphant change of roles — and when children are found in quiet comers reading to each other . |
9 | Perhaps the step-parent needs to work out his or her own approach to disciplining the teenager . |
10 | He goes on to advise those still wrestling with uncertainty , ‘ He or she ought to examine , with the help of others , what his or her own attitudes to sexuality really are . |
11 | Alternatively , the RFL may apply for his or her own entry to be cancelled . |
12 | This means that any part of an asset 's increased value , from 1982 or its subsequent purchase to its disposal , which is due to inflation is not counted for CGT purposes . |
13 | If a pianist is particularly charming and quite gifted , his failure to win the competition need not trouble him ; money is raised privately among local citizens , and he is given his own Carnegie Hall recital , perhaps , or his own scholarship to the Conservatoire in Paris , with a living allowance to provide for ‘ a minimally decent standard of living ’ — a phrase used in Forth Worth to describe what British people might call an upper middle-class lifestyle . |
14 | Since whether this is permissible proves to be a widely disputed proposition , the position that animal protection , or compassion for animals , or our human responsibility to other animals are exhausted by the prohibition against cruelty also are question-begging at best , mistaken at worst . |
15 | Superintendent what was your response or your initial reaction to that information ? |
16 | Thanks to you for your hard work in 1992 and my best wishes to you and your families in 1993 . |
17 | It was my first taste of big-time athletics , and my first visit to Gateshead . |
18 | It was my first time in California and my first visit to a swank house . |
19 | The first two parts of her prediction have come true ; Lovat being wounded , and my safe return to England . |
20 | It is a personal , highly subjective account which seeks to relate my experience as an Irish lesbian , my involvement in political action at that time and my subsequent emigration to England in the mid-seventies . |
21 | It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built . |
22 | Such optimism may still prove to be justified : but the bets are much riskier , now that China 's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes . |
23 | Given Cadbury 's peerless reputation for research and development , and its continued commitment to high levels of marketing support , which in Time Out 's case includes a £5m advertising blitz through GGT , few can doubt that the company 's £35 sales target for the brand will be achieved . |
24 | It is designed to operate as a ‘ check list ’ of all information which is considered to be desirable or necessary for the successful execution of the Request and its prompt return to the requesting authority . |
25 | It seems to me that the impossibility of desire , and its exclusive relation to fantasy , has to be qualified in the face of the possibility — always implied by interruption — of resumption , of a return to normal service . |
26 | In the space of a few years the word ‘ hooligan ’ had outstripped its humble local origins and its specific reference to London gang life ( it had also begun to lose its capital ‘ H ’ ) and had come to be understood and feared as a much more general affliction among the nation 's youth . |
27 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
28 | If you take part you will be showing solidarity with the poorest nations in the world and letting governments everywhere know that you care about the environment and its undeniable rush to destruction . |
29 | Pulling my coat more closely round me , I turned my attention from the dark shape of the broch and its flitting ghosts to my own situation . |
30 | Before I go into the details of the report 's findings and the accompanying and interesting , if depressing , press statement by the Minister on 9 September , I should say that there is not only increasing public awareness of the problems of smoking and its long-term consequences to the health of smokers , but an increasing awareness of the dangers of passive smoking , particularly to children . |