Example sentences of "to [noun] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Girls would have had to send money home but Jane set aside a similar sum to tide her over periods of unemployment . |
| 2 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 3 | Under the acts , corporations are required to measure their own pollution level and report this to the inspectorate . |
| 4 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 5 | Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy . |
| 6 | He may also have hoped that by supporting a revolution with which the Chinese felt no small degree of identification , he would be able to outmanoeuvre his Maoist critics . |
| 7 | Those who had come to New England to have an opportunity to practice their own approach to religion , and then found they did not agree with the views held by those who were in power , had a more serious problem . |
| 8 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 9 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 10 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 11 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 12 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 13 | JOHN BARNES , the England winger struggling with a hamstring injury , stayed in Liverpool yesterday as Bobby Robson 's squad met up in Buckinghamshire to fine-tune their final plans for next Wednesday 's World Cup qualifying game in Poland . |
| 14 | She has four arms , making her an inescapable foe — one hand holds a sword , one a human head , one is raised in a gesture of peace to trick the unwary , and the other forms a claw , ready to pinion its next victim . |
| 15 | Having declared to Roderigo his true feelings about Othello , Iago later explains why he pays tribute to virtue : personal gain . |
| 16 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 17 | This was to assist the layers of the king 's soul to break free and find their proper places , so as not to encumber his final space-flight . |
| 18 | Very few of you will be starting from scratch to implement your computerised personnel information system . |
| 19 | They might see it as better to take-over their main supplier , even if it means that company losing some existing orders from competing manufacturers of food products ; * buyers may deliberately seek international suppliers , so as to maintain their choice and retain some degree of control over the prices and terms of supply . |
| 20 | For a while , she would have to downscale her first impressions . |
| 21 | If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts . |
| 22 | When we moved from Durham to Bristol our youngest daughter was ten . |
| 23 | But please do n't ask us to crew your young ones up with other adults … many are teachers , meant to be on holiday ! |
| 24 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 25 | Check with neighbours that they have n't got the same problem something could be wrong with the main sewer-before attempting to unblock your own drains . |
| 26 | How widespread was the preparedness to use force of arms , if necessary , to restore to Israel her rightful king ? |
| 27 | The Junkers , by leading the German unification , were able to enshrine their own position . |
| 28 | Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin ; Tolkien rejected it on the grounds that public virtue can not be mechanised or formulated . |
| 29 | The computations are thus interpretative processes , carried out by the visual system considered as a symbol-manipulating system rather than simply as a physical transducer ( though Marr attempts to ground his computational hypotheses in specific facts of visual psychophysiology ) . |
| 30 | He took an extreme position on law reform as well as in matters religious , and his fellow millenarians took to meeting regularly at his house to concert their parliamentary tactics . |