Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commandos , who belong to a 55-strong group of US military advisers in El Salvador , had held out on the sixth floor of the annexe during the siege .. |
| 2 | How close do you feel to Christians you know who belong to a different denomination ? |
| 3 | Those who belong to a particular group or stratum will have some awareness of common interests and a common identity . |
| 4 | Unlike most fiendishly keen gardeners who move to a new place , uproot the lot and instigate their ideas and favourite plants , Patricia held back . |
| 5 | Speakers who move to a new dialect area may , over time , adjust their speech , or " accommodate " , in the direction of the new dialect — with varying degrees of success . |
| 6 | It forbade the granting of academic tenure ( see Chapter 7 ) to new university academic staff ; withdrew tenure from staff in post who move to a different university or accept promotion within the same university . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , there are some senior Conservatives who subscribe to a long-standing conspiracy theory ; that the time would come when such a sterling crisis would happen — and would force Mrs Thatcher toaccept the only alternative was ERM entry . |
| 8 | Those among the contented who own to a social conscience may not fully appreciate that the conditions suffered by the urban underclass can be marginally less unendurable than those they have escaped from ( whether in the American South , Puerto Rico or the shanty towns of the West Indies ) . |