Example sentences of "to [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader and the ideas have ascribed to them a mysterious and irresistible power which Le Bon called ‘ prestige ’ , a notion close to , if not identical with , Weber 's concept of ‘ charisma ’ . |
| 2 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 3 | A ferocious-looking man whose tangled hair resembled the roof of his own tent held up to them a rough bowl . |
| 4 | Japanese collectors also value the psychological security offered by the multiple image — to like exactly what other collectors like seems to them a good and reassuring thing . |
| 5 | And every time the Sun shall display His Rising Light , It shall be to them a new Wedding-Day ; And when he sets , a new Nuptial-Night , |
| 6 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 7 | Grandison described him as a ‘ dearly loved member of our household and a valuable and willing servant to us and to our church of Exeter ’ ; and next year wrote to the abbot and convent of Sherborne to commend to them a young man , J. de Sparkeforde , son of Master Thomas de Wytteneye ‘ whose industry is of special value for the repair and in part new building , by his skill , of the fabric of our church of Exeter ’ . |
| 8 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 9 | These included creating some kind of social security for women artists and making available to them a basic training . |
| 10 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 11 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 12 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 13 | If ‘ fascism ’ appeared to them an appropriate name for their enemy , then perhaps comfortable historians half-a-century later should hesitate before declaring them wrong . |
| 14 | As far as study of the mystics is concerned , this has meant that modern readers have felt inhibited about discussing these texts and have attributed to them an abstruse esoteric quality ; this is ironic in view of the fact that the mystics themselves proclaim their experience to be of fundamental human importance — and essentially simple . |
| 15 | To them an urgent assessment meant ‘ needs doing within two days ’ whereas to me it meant ‘ needs doing immediately . ’ |
| 16 | However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft . |
| 17 | It seems to me a definite kind of immortality both to be remembered with great affection and to give that feeling ( which I and so many friends have ) that we ca n't believe he has died . |
| 18 | ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary . |
| 19 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 20 | Erm , and therefore you 're thrown back at er finding something else , this sort of vague compromise of director of this that or this that and the other , er , er , appeared , and er it seems to me A long winded , er but also , it indicates something against what you 've already tried to do , which is to merge the two together . |
| 21 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 22 | Erm , my fear of this report is that we are actually erm , it shows to me a certain level of complacency . |
| 23 | He did that there and he blocked what looked like to me a certain goal . |
| 24 | " The world constructed by the media seems to me a reasonable surrogate for " real life " , whatever that is . |
| 25 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
| 26 | His undoubted pace is being sacrificed on an altar of greater sevens savvy elsewhere in the squad which seems to me a reasonable gambit to adopt . |
| 27 | What seemed to me a golden opportunity came to hand largely through Pearn 's connections with the History department in the University , to which he had now returned . |
| 28 | I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings . |
| 29 | Now the year nineteen oh nine seems to me a curious year . |
| 30 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |