Example sentences of "to [indef pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 2 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 3 | The Wasps ' try came from Oti — a welcome return to something resembling known form when he was first to a clever chip by Pilgrim , whose second penalty goal eased Wasps ahead 10–9 with seven minutes left . |
| 4 | And even goodbye to one mans best friend . |
| 5 | If the United Nations Convention comes into force there could potentially be two seabed conventional regimes with parties to one constituting third parties to the other . |
| 6 | The Oracle responds at once to anyone entering this chamber , and asks them slowly in his husky , graveyard voice what they wish with him . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , ( 219 ) is the equivalent of " Postulate AB = CD " , which is to say that let is an instruction to anyone reading this sentence to conceive AB as equal to CD . |
| 8 | The theory of natural selection first propounded by Charles Darwin ( 1858 ) is a cornerstone of biological thought and its appreciation is essential to anyone asking evolutionary questions in relation to human social behaviour . |
| 9 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 10 | To anyone approaching this verse with a background in rabbinic or medieval Hebrew , the A-line is quite ambiguous : is " eternity " or " the world , universe " ? |
| 11 | The guide to the River Irthing in the same issue failed to mention a 10m fall in its bombing range section below Forster 's Hill although it should be fairly obvious to anyone finding enough water to paddle this section . |
| 12 | In fact , the fish will come to anything generating this frequency , even an artificially vibrating sphere . |