Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerks and scholars of the University of Oxford were reported to have gathered ‘ to them great numbers of evil-doers in unlawful assemblies , with no small power by night and by day ’ . |
| 2 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 3 | The first of these three problems , which is the most important in numerical terms — accounting for just under 10% of all unsatisfied requests — is also the most easily solved , and could very largely be eliminated simply by encouraging readers to consult the Library 's catalogues before submitting a call-slip , and by making available to them printed instructions on the location and interpretation of catalogue entries for serial publications . |
| 4 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
| 5 | The chairmen were , of course , willing to make some cuts where the national interest required it , but Gaitskell pushed them too far , making what seemed to them impossible demands . |
| 6 | He 's written to them numerous times and they say what money . |
| 7 | Such processed foods therefore have added to them artificial colours , flavours , flavour enhancers ( usually monosodium glutamate , MSG ) , texturizers , emulsifiers and preservatives — most of which are chemicals of no particular use to the body and many of which may actually be harmful . |
| 8 | ‘ The aim is that the foundation will go and talk with the people of this region who have big farms , or business people and explain to them special projects and ask for funds . ’ |
| 9 | Henry VII extended the Crown estates ; Henry VIII added to them monastic lands and developed the subsidy ; Mary restored the value of the customs duties . |
| 10 | Listen to them old-fashioned Syndrums ! |
| 11 | I now want to draw together the four aspects of intelligent machines set out above and three prima facie features of consciousness : these three seem to me necessary criteria for any explication of consciousness , and I will suggest that the aspects of such machines already described are interestingly related to these facts . |
| 12 | For he that is mighty hath done to me great things , and holy is his name . |
| 13 | I to you young men because you are strong and the word of God lives in you and you have overcome the evil one . |
| 14 | I to you dear children , because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name . |
| 15 | I to you dear children because you have known the father . |
| 16 | It was built in 1960 and the original leather interior has been re-upholstered in a rather fetching magenta ( plum colour to you non-artistic types ) Dralon . |
| 17 | This does mean , of course , that there is no control over the model 's yaw axis ( rudder to you fixed-wing flyers ) during the descent , although the natural weathercock effect of the fuselage will keep it lined up in the direction of flight . |
| 18 | That shut them up and should it not do the same to we miserable sinners today ? |
| 19 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 20 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 21 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 22 | He describes how , by 1837 , the game had evolved into a highly complicated sport , containing all the ‘ typical characteristics of a genuinely national art form , … profoundly popular in origin , yet attracting to it disinterested elements of the leisured and educated classes ’ . |
| 23 | None of them had been the kind of people who could have imagined devotion to a pet animal or according to it funerary rites . |
| 24 | In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms . |
| 25 | This intellectual process is of greatest linguistic and epistemological importance , because thanks to it human beings can devise and use common nouns , which are class names and not merely proper names for each individual of a species of beings or class of things . |
| 26 | But this does n't affect the fact that they would topple over , for in worlds most similar to ours tailless kangaroos do topple over and are not given crutches . |
| 27 | However , such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals . |
| 28 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 29 | At the time the committee considered representations of the deposit plan , we had available to us revised projections based on the ninety one census , also information available from the ninety nine planning census of employment and based on a number of er representations made to me formally and informally , I revised the assumptions to er incorporate ninety one census data and to in fact stretch the assumptions er in terms of their general . |
| 30 | The sail was only too short , and after rounding Toward Point , we steamed slowly into Rothesay Bay , whose shipping and surroundings brought to us manifold reminders of city life : it was a strong contrast to the quiet of the Arran hills towering heavenward above the encircling wreaths of mist . |