Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |
| 2 | Maria Edgeworth [ q.v. ] mentions , in 1802 , that Watts had sold a four-volume novel ( untraced ) to William Lane [ q.v. ] for ten guineas and that Richard Lovell Edgeworth [ q.v. ] doubted her talent too much to recommend her to the publisher Joseph Johnson [ q.v . ] ; |
| 3 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 4 | The Romans , imitating the Greeks of Asia Minor and , nearer home , the Etruscans , thought a grid should have precise right angles , and so the rectangle of streets sits awkwardly in the bend of the river and one has to tack this way and that to cross it to the medieval cathedral and the Roman bridge . |
| 5 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 6 | That set of responses is enough to guide them to the female . |
| 7 | Health expenditure increased , but not by enough to lift us to a comparable position with our main industrial competitors . |
| 8 | The very sight of the sign at the head of the platform , shabby and tourist and third class though it was compared with that of the Golden Arrow at the other end of the station , was enough to raise her to a state she had never reached before , and as the train moved south , she sat in her seat and stared out of the window as though in a trance . |
| 9 | The sound of merriment emanating from the hall jangled her nerves , the sight of the courting couples pressed against the wall was enough to bring her to the edge of tears again . |