Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ an act not warranted by law or an omission to discharge a legal duty , which act or omission obstructs or causes inconvenience or damage to the public in the exercise of rights common to all His Majesty 's subjects . |
| 2 | While the accounts of the siege of Harfleur in the late summer of 1415 refer to the time-honoured methods of mining and blockade used by the English , pride of place for effectiveness is given to their artillery , which caused both fear and destruction to the beleaguered town . |
| 3 | The SW18 is noticeably superior in both finish and sound to the previous two models , although the laminated spruce top and nato neck , back and sides are the same . |
| 4 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 5 | The centre core gives ‘ durability ’ — they 'll last a long time and the overwrap improves the ‘ playability ’ or feel or response to the ball . |