Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a very short time several of those who were disappointed at his election swung over to gratitude for his coming and enthusiasm for what he did to the faculty . |
| 2 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 3 | He submitted that it was quite clear that the FPC reached a considered decision as what it found to be the proper level of use of the deputising service consistently with maintaining the doctor 's primary responsibility and as regards the need to maintain the standards of the deputising service efficiently and consistently with that obligation . |
| 4 | She used the noise as camouflage for what she felt to be her betrayal of her grandfather 's trust : ‘ He 's up at Pine Ridge . ’ |
| 5 | It jerked against the safety-chain , leaving a narrow gap through which he scrambled to safety . |
| 6 | When 14 he was apprenticed to the Edinburgh firm of Norie , who were house painters — hardly an ideal apprenticeship for what he wanted to be . |
| 7 | The heated debates in Western Europe around the year 400 on the meaning of perfection had their roots in the uncertainty about what it meant to be a genuine Christian in a society of fashionable Christianity . |
| 8 | His actions and ideas were those of a young man with a clear perception of what he considered to be right and wrong , and a clear understanding of what he judged to be the sources of oppression in the world . |
| 9 | While highlighting the issue of disappearances , entertainment and big names can soften the perception of what it means to be ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 10 | It was not long after the unearthing of the Phillips curve that economists and , later , policy makers came to grasp the full force of what they thought to be its implications for the conduct of demand management by the monetary and fiscal authorities . |
| 11 | They ease the pain of lived contradictions , furnishing missing links between origins and destinies , stitching together scattered histories into a singular totalizing consciousness of what it means to be black or Muslim , Palestinian or Jew . |
| 12 | But I certainly think that with regard to Concept Catering , the merger did not come s , could almost , did n't come soon enough , because we needed to turn Concept Catering , from a school meals organisation into a catering organisation , and give it stronger management and a better lead and a better appreciation of what it means to be customer oriented . |
| 13 | He was an outspoken opponent of episcopal pretensions and a staunch upholder of what he believed to be the ancient rights of the monastery of Evesham . |
| 14 | All this was to change , however , in the year she describes as ‘ extraordinary ’ , 1963 , as a result of what she took to be the effect that television was having on public debate . |
| 15 | Or a passage in the police officer 's statement to the effect ‘ As a result of what I said to him … he was unable to produce a driving licence for that class of vehicle ’ . |
| 16 | Now , and while anxious not to bore the pants off either of my faithful readers , I feel bound to return to and to expand upon the theme as a result of what I consider to be a truly appalling piece of recent news . |
| 17 | She was lost in him , the textures , tastes of his flesh , the exquisite torture of what he did to her with mouth and fingers . |
| 18 | Members of Parliament then have an opportunity to discuss and amend , accepting or rejecting the proposals in the light of what they consider to be the needs and desires of their constituents . |
| 19 | In the light of what he read to be the limitation laid down by the Court of Appeal , the judge concluded , at p. 663E , that ‘ little , if any , of the information sought by the administrators can be described as ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 20 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 21 | The Horses ' sequence ( of which Nos.1 to 49 are also illustrated here ) provided " a dictionary of what we do to an image " . |
| 22 | She also spied the McPhersons to her left standing on the roof of what she presumed to be their house . |
| 23 | Earlier in the book we examined the essence of what it means to be a person . |
| 24 | His hands gripped the wheel with what she took to be more than necessary strength and he looked as if he would stop , spring out and grip her neck with equal intensity . |
| 25 | When I speak to him he responds ; but not with the same speed with which he responds to his nurse , from whom of course he obtains satisfaction of his physical needs . |
| 26 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 27 | 14–5–1844 " The Session considering that James Gibson , under process for the crime of fornication , ( with Ann Darroch ) , has submitted to the discipline of the Church , appeared publically and been rebuked before the congregation , and hoping from the professions he now makes , as well as the readiness with which he submitted to discipline , that he is penitent , do now absolve him from censure and admit him to the enjoyment of privileges . " |
| 28 | There is a breath of punk in what they aspire to : the Do Anything You Wan na Do line of thought that infiltrates everything from their offstage character through to their dealings with the record company . |
| 29 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
| 30 | There is the one where a madcap home supporter gingerly urinates from above on opposition fans who are innocently drinking tea in what they take to be a gentle drizzle . |