Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [pron] [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 | And when Mick Stockwell slid over a low cross in the 73rd minute , Kiwomya was on hand to sidefoot it past goalkeeper Nigel Spink . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 17 | Fighting spread to Mostar which Croatian forces took on Oct. 25 and proclaimed capital of the Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosne [ see p. 39103 ] , with Boban as its president . |
| 18 | Such a situation poses a threat to privacy which this draft directive quite properly addresses ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Very few of you will be starting from scratch to implement your computerised personnel information system . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For a while , she would have to downscale her first impressions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But please do n't ask us to crew your young ones up with other adults … many are teachers , meant to be on holiday ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Junkers , by leading the German unification , were able to enshrine their own position . |
| 28 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 29 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 30 | Firstly , there was a widespread opinion that arts staff do not give the priority to INSET which other areas of the curriculum do . |