Example sentences of "to [pron] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acceptance of such a scheme meant that the government had accepted , albeit for economic and demographic reasons , the principle that ‘ society should include in its economic structure some form of direct financial provision for the maintenance of children , instead of proceeding on the assumption that , save in cases of exceptional misfortune , this is a matter which concerns only individual parents and should be left to them because normally men 's wages or salaries are , or ought to be and can be made to be , sufficient for the support of their families ’ ( Rathbone , 1940 ) . |
| 2 | It never occurred to me that somewhere wimmin might love other wimmin precisely because they were other wimmin and that this love could include a sexual dimension . |
| 3 | It had become clear to me that both Leslie and I had changed — not in essentials , but we had grown up . |
| 4 | It seems to me that ultimately artists must be successful or otherwise because of the public response to their output . |
| 5 | That 's what Johnny says to me and then Alison rang me up this afternoon . |
| 6 | He considered it ‘ obvious to everyone that neither Pakistan nor Thailand in SEATO , nor Iraq , Iran or Turkey in the Baghdad Pact set the policy ’ . |
| 7 | and , and , well and to you as well Viv but er I have n't seen Viv , I have n't seen Pete for a while . |
| 8 | I felt close to you as well babe ! |
| 9 | It may be a theoretical difficulty to him that logically imperatives are derivable from other imperatives but not from psychological or other factual statements uncombined with imperatives . |
| 10 | Far from undermining the adoptive relationship , his keeping in touch with his relatives often strengthens it : the child knows that his adopting parents accept not only him but that which belongs to him and thus acceptance has a broader , surer meaning ( p. 333 ) . |
| 11 | Clothes had n't mattered for years , of course , but towards the end of the eighties , the phrases power-dressing and anti-stress eating program had filtered through to her and now Alex dressed and ate for every occasion . |
| 12 | But this came to naught and so Queen Margaret slipped over the border into England . ’ |
| 13 | The new remedy rapidly encroached upon the spheres of trespass and replevin so that at one time it looked as if any ‘ asportation ’ or moving of the property might be regarded not only as a trespass to it but also conversion of it , but this very wide doctrine was restricted to a principle that the dealing with the goods must amount to a denial of the owner 's title . |
| 14 | This visit to Glastonbury must have been an impressive occasion , but there was probably more to it than simply pomp and piety . |
| 15 | Art came second , with more space devoted to it than either maths or language ; it accounted for just over a quarter of all curriculum-specific work areas for younger pupils , and a fifth of those for older pupils . |
| 16 | Lastly , again does it not occur to us that niggardly education provision over years has contributed to a level of national vulgarity , taste , social behaviour virtually unacceptable in the modern world ? |