Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't ! ’ she gasped helplessly , unable to prevent a trembling response to his intimate touch . |
| 2 | For many people , Christmas is a time to have an apocalyptic hangover or binge ; the Christian bit is an unnecessary encumbrance to them . |
| 3 | Home Office Minister Charles Wardle told the Commons : ‘ I am sure that we all hope these evacuees will be able to return in due course to their own country . |
| 4 | Its style had made Sean 's terse epistles to his mother seem like florid prose : ‘ FATHER DIED LAST NIGHT . |
| 5 | And then the Company brought craftsmen who laboured mightily and restored this historic building to its original splendour for the delight and wonderment of people not only from the district of Montgomeryshire but from diverse parts . |
| 6 | He is less intense than Abbado , and sometimes by that much the less effective ; but his tactful phrasing , his light , well-balanced response to what the characters are saying at any given moment , and perhaps most of all to the expressive colour in the scoring , is wholly admirable . |
| 7 | Brünnhildes often held a persistent attachment to their fathers or mothers and their aggressiveness towards men was a means of protecting this tie . |
| 8 | If a current element I ds is displaced parallel to itself a distance dl in a magnetic flux density B then the work done is |
| 9 | Many of the sounds we hear emanating from insects , for example , are only the bottom end of a spectrum of sound signals much of which lie above the auditory frequencies to which our ears are attuned . |
| 10 | A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence . |
| 11 | This was unfortunate as Neil tends to expect laughs as the more usual response to his lines . |
| 12 | Indemnity in respect of legal liability for accidental injury to Third Parties and/or accidental damage to their property . |
| 13 | To cover your legal liability for accidental injury to third parties or accidental damage to their property . |
| 14 | ‘ They 're right kind to me and I like it there . |
| 15 | The traditional compost for gardeners made from sterilised top-soil to which grit , sand and fertilisers have been added . |
| 16 | He would wait to see what the negotiation process turned up , he said , but " only if real progress is made during negotiations , and if there are obvious and clearly defined benefits for my country and its people , will we consider any possible change to our present constitutional position " . |
| 17 | Seedlings may not survive because of extensive damage to their roots . |
| 18 | St. Martin 's was rebuilt over twenty years after the sack , which implies there was no extensive damage to its structure , and although All Saints ' was also rebuilt at this time , a great deal of its thirteenth-century architecture survived . |
| 19 | Okay what happened was , I had no emotional reactions to anything , I wanted to cry at something on T V , I could n't any more , I could n't cry . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid that brutal and senseless attacks are all too common nowadays , ’ said Clarke , the resignation in his voice making an odd contrast to his air of perpetual astonishment . |
| 21 | She was a total contrast to her husband . |
| 22 | Lawler was renowned as a snob which was in total contrast to his wife . |
| 23 | A female child begins with a strong attachment to her mother , but realises that neither she nor her mother possesses a penis . |
| 24 | When young people form a strong attachment to someone of another race or religion , parents and elders may well express surprise . |
| 25 | Among his other good qualities are : a strong attachment to his home and a constant readiness to defend it ; he is very willing to retrieve and has a good capacity for tracking ; he has considerable endurance , likes the water and is fond of children . |
| 26 | For example , a man with a strong attachment to his mother may marry and divorce a number of women in search of the first important relationship with his mother . |
| 27 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 28 | Yet to me it is more quietly impressive than all the grand ‘ exegi monumentum ’ gestures , since it refuses to turn outward to time , or the world , but addresses itself with complete absorption to its subject . |
| 29 | We 're waiting for new stocks to arrive and will forward the mini hi-fi to you as soon as stocks are delivered . |
| 30 | Throughout the whole period of study , I kept detailed field-notes , not only of factual occurrences , but also of my subjective reactions to what was going on around me . |