Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When I showed my few pages to Shelley , he urged me to develop the story at greater length , and to underline the main idea more powerfully .
2 As we poked away at the goulash soup with its lumps of pork and potato and which had been interestingly seasoned with caraway , Ladislav wanted to know my impressions of what I had seen and , in particular , my own attitudes to Marxism .
3 My own attitude to news changed with John 's abduction .
4 I would stay on in Al Ain , making my own way to London in time for his return .
5 I believe that support this and I 've already seen in my own district to traffic calming which never previously existed .
6 I then took my own aircraft to Kalafrana , landed and moored onto the slipway buoy .
7 The fact that this is happening so widely does not make it any less unwelcome , and I would like to express my own thanks to staff for their steadfastness and continuing hard work in these conditions .
8 Trees and tree clumps have a special attraction for me as they symbolized my own introduction to Earth Mysteries , through Tony Wedd .
9 Perhaps it was because her few visits to Sleightholmedale had been fleeting or was it perhaps , George wondered , because she knew how overwhelmed they would feel if they knew the truth .
10 Nearby Truro has a modern cathedral , river trips down the River Fal with its many creeks to Falmouth , a country museum and country park .
11 A quiet winter day at Royal Oak sees an unusual visitor , ex-conduit car 4 , retracing its former route to South Shore Station , followed by a Squires Gate service car .
12 Under the scheme anyone can send a leaf-shaped card to the June global summit , in Brazil , with their own message to world leaders about the environment .
13 Some popes of a militant disposition , such as the great German reformer Pope Leo IX , tried to lead their own armies to war , but this nearly always ended in disaster .
14 With the border opening looking increasingly doubtful in the week preceding Aug. 13 , members of several South Korean dissident groups attempted to make their own way to Panmunjom but were turned back at police roadblocks .
15 These three ninth-century writers purveyed a similar message in their own times to audiences made up wholly or in part of lay nobles .
16 ‘ True equality wo n't come until women have the freedom to behave naturally with their own approach to problems .
17 It is , in fact , an approach to managing health services and the range of views is largely reflecting just where individuals are within an organisation , the key tasks that concern them and their own approach to implementation .
18 Those who had come to New England to have an opportunity to practice their own approach to religion , and then found they did not agree with the views held by those who were in power , had a more serious problem .
19 Members of Mongolia 's approximately 300 rural co-operatives had to decide on their own approach to privatization .
20 The government officials recognized the system since most bureaucrats owed their own position to nepotism and patronage , perpetuating ‘ a procedure to which they originally resorted and to which they are committed and indebted ’ .
21 Relatives who are carers may also find that the requirement for professional support to be given locally infringes on their own rights to privacy .
22 As a result , theories of the type proposed by Althusser and Poulantzas can not honour their own claims to completeness .
23 I decided that what was urgently required was a method and content which did n't place either the problem or the expertise ‘ out there ’ , which helped teachers to share and analyse their own experience , define their problems and priorities , identify their own routes to solutions .
24 Each member of the cycle team will have to pay their own fare to Romania to start the ride on August 8 .
25 They consider that reading , like listening , should rely on children 's ability to ‘ predict possible meanings ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) and find their own answers to questions about written language .
26 So in revenge , Zurich sent their own army to Rapperswil and destroyed the castle .
27 Some students provide their own padlocks to rooms but the authorities or landlords may not allow this for reasons such as cleaning , safety , etc .
28 Indeed , it was not long before some of the concessions which the British had secured — after considerable persuasive effort on their part — to assist in the postwar reconstruction and conversion of their own economy to peacetime purposes were found to be at risk .
29 To gain experience in practical work , they went on their own initiative to slaughterhouses or the knacker 's yard ; horses were still almost the only animals seen at the College .
30 Some books were purchased at the divisional library and these were augmented by orders based on individual teachers ' specialist knowledge and individual visits , undertaken on their own initiative to bookshops in various places .
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