Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 2 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 3 | Janice sends very many thanks to everyone for the lovely flowers she received while in hospital recently and thanks also to the super evening she spent at Avery Hill Easter Party . |
| 4 | From 870 to the mid-eleventh century it was a Byzantine colony where the Eastern Emperors held power despite Saracen attacks . |
| 5 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 6 | We have contributed to numerous guidance notes on new regulations across a wide range of industrial , service and commercial sections through Steven we have submitted a draft proposal on a directive covering upper limb disorders to the European Commission we 'll be putting further proposals for the establishment of a European work environment fund to assist workplace activity , workplace research on health and safety and environmental issues . |
| 7 | Whatever happens , Olivetti 's commitment to the MIPS-based technology it already employs is not in question . |
| 8 | And it should be deployed : it would be his tribute to his father ; his memorial to the reticent man he had scarcely known but deeply loved , and who had died so courageously . |
| 9 | The astonishing speed with which the two brother radicals developed their Pantisocratic scheme was testimony not only to the transforming effect they had on one another , but to the very weak foundations upon which the whole enterprise rested . |
| 10 | I think now that they were probably quite generous , but then I took my colour from my proud mother — who retaliated with satire to the implicit condescension she thought she detected . |
| 11 | When she was new to the gentle art she spent a lot of her time climbing trees , to retrieve misjudged casts , rather than bother Father . |
| 12 | Kolchinsky was used to the gentle ribbing he got from the operatives about his cost-cutting exercises but when it came to the crunch he would never put any of their lives at risk for the sake of the budget . |
| 13 | The nearest he gets to his usual form is during a discussion about the Mondays ' donation to the Hard Rock Café , coming to the grinning conclusion he should send ‘ a bong made from a Boddingtons beer tin , a packet of Rizla , some tinfoil , an empty skag packet and the sheet me and Bez slept on when we shared a flat together . |
| 14 | She shuddered in pleasure , in wanting , as that finger caressed to the hardened peak he had created . |
| 15 | When he arrived that morning David appeared cool towards her — so cool , in contrast to the friendly relationship they had previously established , that Nina noticed it and mentioned it while she and Rachel were working out a list of appointments for management medicals . |
| 16 | According to the golden rule it can be a powerful motivating force leading the court to detect such an ambiguity . |
| 17 | Needless to say , Sancie had no trouble surviving ; she was , according to the commemorative plaque you can read by the bridge , cast ‘ gently ’ ashore from the ‘ furious ’ waters at a place ‘ three bowshots distant ’ from where she had been thrown in . |
| 18 | It may be in Page 8 the form C : \dir1\file1 or if the search is to be confined to the current disk it may be simplified to \dir1\file1 . |
| 19 | ( Furthermore with the LISP system available to the current project it was not possible to store a very large lexicon — necessitating morphological processing to reduce storage . |
| 20 | However we may criticize the practices of the TNCs in the Third World , for most people whatever they do will be secondary to the major benefit they bring , namely the creation of employment . |
| 21 | The dominant classes of different nations have their own unique histories and characteristics which are not simply reducible to the economic position they all have in common . |
| 22 | She was reasonably certain by then that it was merely a necessary preliminary to the real business he had with her . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , to the only man I could trust . |
| 24 | When he finally died of alcoholism , she returned to the only job she knew , dancing . |
| 25 | I dive to the only place I can go : shoulder first through Richardson 's window . |
| 26 | He indicated to the 38-year-old cashier he had a gun , but no weapon was seen during the incident . |
| 27 | The church was very full and although Amabel could not speak to everyone on her progress to the front pew she paused before taking her seat and smiled sweetly , generally , at the congregation , hoping that no one would feel left out . |
| 28 | But on her way to the front hall she stopped in her tracks as , suddenly , all hell seemed to break loose around her . |
| 29 | But as she mounted the first of the steps to the front door she sensed someone close to her . |
| 30 | CGT only applies to the actual profit you make , so if you buy shares to the value of £25,000 and sell them later for £35,000 the taxman will only be interested in the £1 0,000 profit you have gained . |