Example sentences of "to [pron] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | States need not have any action allocated to them since these states may be either superfluous or valid end states . |
| 2 | They may find respectable society and lawful opportunities closed to them while unlawful ones are opened up ( custodial institutions are notoriously ‘ schools for crime ’ where offenders can meet each other , learn criminal techniques and enter into a criminal sub-culture ) , and their self-image may change from that of a law-abiding person to that of a deviant . |
| 3 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 4 | There they laboured and ate and prayed and slept and raised their kids , and treasured their stockpile of bolt guns and heavy stub weapons with which they must defend their domicile and livelihood against families not allied to them nor owing fealty to Lord Spinoza . |
| 5 | Larger peer groups — the boys ’ or ‘ the lads ’ — often appear more important to them than individual friendships . |
| 6 | There is much more to them than diplomatic negotiation . |
| 7 | If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’ |
| 8 | They ma they maybe do belong to them but bloody hell they the information on it . |
| 9 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 10 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 11 | What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ? |
| 12 | It is interesting to note the changing nature of anti-racist reforms and opposition to them when black professionals and politicians gain more influence in particular localities ( Brent LEA , for example ) . |
| 13 | But I suppose I must talk to them because that man was an American . |
| 14 | Alice had stopped to listen to them because this man , this kind-faced fair one , was quite a good performer . |
| 15 | He should have talked to them as reasonable people , not shouted at them . ’ |
| 16 | This book is not designed to engage with exposition of doctrine though it will inevitably point to its importance ; rather it attempts a mode of appreciation of these texts to help readers , whether or not they have prior knowledge of the subject , to respond to them as literary witnesses to a life of faith understood as a game . |
| 17 | However , in Family Housing Association v Jones [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 779 it was held that occupants of property granted to them as homeless persons were secure tenants . |
| 18 | The monotheistic forms of religion are the higher , for they more clearly and purely bring the God-consciousness to expression , ‘ and all others are related to them as subordinate forms , from which men are destined to pass on to those higher ones ’ . |
| 19 | Anyway , they go down and they look this beautiful woman with the swimming costume on , I do n't care who it is and on the shelf there 's a line of cocks with , with with tongs next to them and all blood dripping off them . |
| 20 | We dedicate to them and all people who contributed to the success of this , never to be forgotten , Bomber Unit . |
| 21 | Frequently , the latter have funnel-shaped access ways on to them and former forest from the enclosed areas around . |
| 22 | This is a tribute to how effectively the rich use the wide range of allowances available to them and other forms of tax avoidance . |
| 23 | This is now unavailable to them and neither woman can afford to seek advice on a private basis . |
| 24 | The Incas believed they could harness the power of Inti , the sun , to them and each temple had its hitching post , a small column compared to the huge masonry surrounding it , but sacred . |
| 25 | On paper , there are few jobs for which large numbers of people are not qualified ; in practice , employers use a more refined and differentiated signal than educational qualifications : they use the recommendations of people personally known to them and prospective employees . |
| 26 | yeah that 's not right is it ? , in fact I wrote to them and last year and er give me a Birmingham address , they might , oh |
| 27 | In coming to a decision the tribunal is bound by decisions of the Employment Appeal Tribunal and must ensure that its decisions take full account of the cases presented to them and any others that are relevant . |
| 28 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 29 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 30 | I was asked once if it seemed real to me that one day I would be lifeless inside it . |