Example sentences of "to [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 2 | A ferocious-looking man whose tangled hair resembled the roof of his own tent held up to them a rough bowl . |
| 3 | And every time the Sun shall display His Rising Light , It shall be to them a new Wedding-Day ; And when he sets , a new Nuptial-Night , |
| 4 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 5 | Grandison described him as a ‘ dearly loved member of our household and a valuable and willing servant to us and to our church of Exeter ’ ; and next year wrote to the abbot and convent of Sherborne to commend to them a young man , J. de Sparkeforde , son of Master Thomas de Wytteneye ‘ whose industry is of special value for the repair and in part new building , by his skill , of the fabric of our church of Exeter ’ . |
| 6 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 7 | These included creating some kind of social security for women artists and making available to them a basic training . |
| 8 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 9 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 10 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 11 | If ‘ fascism ’ appeared to them an appropriate name for their enemy , then perhaps comfortable historians half-a-century later should hesitate before declaring them wrong . |
| 12 | To them an urgent assessment meant ‘ needs doing within two days ’ whereas to me it meant ‘ needs doing immediately . ’ |
| 13 | However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft . |
| 14 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 15 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 16 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 17 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 19 | To them the traditional emphasis on voluntarism and private initiative , which had laid the foundation for Nonconformist power , needed re-examination or what a later generation would call ‘ rationalization ’ . |
| 20 | Lord Reid delivered the leading opinion in the House of Lords and he stated the general principles in fatal accidents claims as follows at p217 : They [ the dependants ] are entitled to such a sum as will make good to them the financial loss which they have suffered and will suffer as a result of the death . |
| 21 | According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns . |
| 22 | I read this poem to a group of 10- and 11-year-old children , pointing out to them the physical immediacy of phrases like ‘ tummy jiggled ’ , ‘ ears/Were cold ’ and ‘ teeth on edge ’ . |
| 23 | Whatever the difference of view held across the House , given that CTCs are funded by public money , will the Secretary of State take urgent steps to give parents whose children are refused admission to them the same right of appeal that is available in respect of all other publicly-funded schools ? |
| 24 | He had held her hand while listening to her political ambitions , giving to them the same care he devoted to a Ministerial Statement in the House . |
| 25 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 26 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 27 | In his address to them the Holy Father stressed that the era of Missionaries has not ended . |
| 28 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 29 | By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education . |
| 30 | That seems to me a better way of spending Sundays — among my family . |