Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colours can be used as a complement to fonts or even as a substitute ( e.g. a user might choose to display the Emphasized context in a brighter colour rather than in a different font ) . |
| 2 | In terms of value , less than 40% of the items belonging to Polish-born French industrialist Leon Anlen were sold according to Tajan , who took the unprecedented step of ordering a blackout on all information about the sale both to journalists and even to the central press service of Drouot salerooms . |
| 3 | The fact that a scheme could be contrived that made it a working possibility for the majority of the disabled to acquire a motor car of their choice and to finance the purchase , including insurance and repair , from the allowance , was a staggering revelation to economists and particularly to the socialists of the time who regarded private enterprise as the kiss of death . |
| 4 | The most important ones are often the most inaccessible : under the floorboards near to airbricks and up in the loft space near to the eaves . |
| 5 | One consents not only to actions but also to the holding of certain positions and to the imposition of duties and burdens . |
| 6 | The line of descent may be further restricted by making the estate an estate in tail-male , i.e. one descendible only to males and only in the male line , or conceivably ( though in practice this appears never to be done ) in tall-female descendible only to and through females . |
| 7 | Semi-legends of private collecting during the Soviet regime , which , for the sake of brevity , I can not elaborate on here , depict a strange world where protecting or completely concealing collections from the authorities was possible through partners who were free from political investigation , or through extensive gifts to museums or directly to the ‘ inner circle ’ . |
| 8 | The Act , while permitting the sale of contraceptives , restricted sellers to chemists and only on the production of a medical prescription . |
| 9 | At present any member of the public can consult it all day long , all year round , and there is no doubt that it has been of invaluable help not only to scholars but also to the art trade . |
| 10 | According to a Royal Bank spokesman , in April the focus of the scheme could shift to mortgages or even to the life assurance products sold by the bank 's insurance subsidiary , Royal Scottish Assurance . |
| 11 | Mark Rees ' comments in these directions seem particularly confused and confusing ; ’ I was attracted to women but not as a lesbian I felt totally wrong in that role . |
| 12 | Jung 's distinction drew attention to whether a person relates predominantly to others and less to the self or vice versa . |
| 13 | Among the features it hopes to bring to theatres and also to the instructive world of television are : |
| 14 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |