Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts are now being made to reduce it to two-thirds of its level now by 1985 . |
| 2 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |
| 3 | ‘ We are pleased to welcome you to one of the country 's finest footballing cities . ’ |
| 4 | Then to implement a circuit specified in occam it will be sufficient to transform it to one of these implementable subsets of occam . |
| 5 | The proprietors are happy to provide dinner with prior notice or to direct you to any of the many pubs and restaurants within a three-mile radius . |
| 6 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 7 | Cranston sighed , nodded , and turned to the steward , asking him to take them to one of the duke 's private chambers . |
| 8 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 9 | This particular eel ( I think ) has much to endear it to those of us that keep some of the more serious ‘ oddballs ’ . |
| 10 | the second one was that er if you found er my service helpful , to be of benefit to you , you 'd feel free to recommend me to some of your friends and colleagues . |
| 11 | The next case attempts to introduce you to some of these complexities . |
| 12 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |