Example sentences of "to [pron] [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : I have often observed in married folks that the lady soon grows careless in her dress , which to me shows a slight to her husband that she had not to her lover . |
| 3 | And he goes on to ask some similarly pertinent questions : ‘ To whom does a person 's body belong ? |
| 4 | At the same time , the inner city forms the ‘ sink ’ to which gravitates a range of marginal and minority groups , including non-white immigrants , young single people , one-parent families and various types of social deviants who prefer the anonymity of big-city life or who have been ostracized by their community of origin ( Knox , 1982 ; Peach , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | If you were going to do , if you decided you wanted to do research on gypsies and , you yourself , a lot of gypsies er , and you decide th the best way to do it is to which gives a kind of subjective insight to their own lifestyle and thinking . |
| 6 | Next to him leans a standing woman , her plastered foot breaking out from her swollen shoe . |
| 7 | Well , then he might have to he makes a mess of that bed I ai n't made of money you know ! |
| 8 | There is no agreed definition as to what constitutes a knowledge worker . |
| 9 | The CPA 1987 is not clear as to what constitutes a holding-out and much will depend upon how the branding is perceived by the reasonable consumer . |
| 10 | The court 's decision as to what constitutes a class conceals the policy issues in the decision . |
| 11 | Although a number of security interests are clearly accepted as being recognised by English law , there is some doubt at the penumbra as to what constitutes a security interest and , in particular , as to whether there is a numerus clausus of such interests . |
| 12 | As was pointed out earlier , there is some uncertainty as to what constitutes a security interest ; it is submitted that the courts will adopt something along the lines of the definition of Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. set out at the commencement of this chapter . |
| 13 | Unlike the debates over the military-industrial complex , the general and wide-ranging nature of the arguments in this chapter reflects disagreement about what the problem is and different approaches to what constitutes a theory . |