Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germans not alive when Nazis ruled their country feel shame and a sense of obligation toward Jews ; white Americans who inherited nothing from slaveholders feel an indeterminate responsibility to blacks who never wore chains . |
| 2 | The leaps of the first phrase , with their chordal implications ; change into a falling scale pattern , while the impulsive , staccato dotted rhythm changes to a series of contrastingly smooth legato quaver runs , quite different in character : In the March from Aida ( Example 25 ) , after a rather long first phrase of three bars , there is a complete change to material which has never been used before . |
| 3 | This is the complete opposite to Blanche who likes to live in a ‘ dream ’ world . |
| 4 | This in complete contrast to Holden who , although he criticises other people 's behaviour , does not describe them as individuals ; consequently in ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ , there is no serious development of any character except the central figure , whereas in ‘ Villette ’ , several characters are developed . |
| 5 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 6 | Her requirements were few , and she earned a meagre living as an artist 's model , most notably for Auguste Rodin , whom she met in 1904 , and for whose unfinished monument to Whistler she posed . |
| 7 | We might have expected that people would give particularly low ratings to sources they described as biased but there was little evidence of any such reaction . |
| 8 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 9 | To counter the new industrial strategy , colonial initiatives , and tariff manipulation of France and England , the Dutch strove — with some success — to restrict the flow of French and English products to markets they controlled , such as the Baltic , dealing considerable damage in particular to French trade and industry . |
| 10 | Did you see the poll published in the Sunday newspapers about public attitudes to AIDS which avoided any reference to the Terence Higgins Trust or any of the other gay support groups ? |
| 11 | It is feasible to provide adequate exposure to events which in practice might be rare but very serious . |
| 12 | Using survey and field observation methods , it will look at the role played by professionals in the provision of social support to families who are socially disadvantaged and will also consider the relationship between different types of social support and the ability of families to cope with personal difficulties . |
| 13 | Such a different environment for antislavery work gave different meanings to bodies which claimed national antislavery status . |
| 14 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 15 | The Communist Party now contains an extraordinary range of opinion , from old believers to reformers who are closer in outlook to middle-of-the-road democrats than to their hardline comrades . |
| 16 | The decision was , I do not doubt , a thoroughly beneficial decision which has given a sensible ambit to powers which Parliament had conferred in a way which good sense would suggest had left them far too restricted . |
| 17 | The attraction of such films lies apparently in the offer of illicit sexual pleasure to men whose sexual confidence is at such a low ebb as to make them unlikely or unable to resist . |
| 18 | And Secretary of State Peter Lilley should also demand that the brewers pay adequate compensation to tenants who refuse to take leases . |
| 19 | From Old Stratford to Towcester it still goes in a straight line for 8½ miles . |
| 20 | But the ‘ open door ’ policy attracted many ‘ unsavoury ’ foreign imports to China which were more difficult to curb . |
| 21 | The Critical Lawyers Group has suggested the establishment of a Public Law Project which would provide assistance in matters relating to public law to people who have little or no access to such assistance , due to their social disadvantage or lack of income . |
| 22 | The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is , and is ‘ knowing thyself ’ as a product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity of traces , without leaving an inventory . |
| 23 | The wording of the section contains no express limitation to documents which can be said to be part of a process of reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge . |
| 24 | With our long tradition of effective management and careful attention to quality we have a bright future as an independent company . |
| 25 | The one good effect of the poll tax may be that it forces the sale of these empty properties to people who will breathe new life into half-dead communities . |
| 26 | On the same day , however , the Indian daily Pioneer published an interview with the Pakistan High Commissioner to India which strongly criticized the Indian army 's actions in Kashmir . |
| 27 | It is common practice in the haulage industry to give customers 30 days from date of invoice in which to pay , and it must be the aim of every haulier to avoid giving extended credit to customers who , for one reason of another , fail to keep within these terms . |
| 28 | The avoidance of the need to teach anything of programming or electronic engineering to students whose interests , aptitudes and qualifications were almost entirely based in art and language . |
| 29 | Much more problematic , in practical terms , is the resistance by public bodies to funding what are seen as subversive cliques . |
| 30 | First , women and men have different access to resources which could be shared , especially financial resources . |