Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His men are as tough as they come , but they do n't do things like this to women . ’ |
| 2 | It appears that , despite the way he first introduces the topic of personal identity , his detailed interest is not so much in what makes a person the same over time , but in the sense one has of oneself , one 's past deeds and actions , and the relation of this to questions of moral praise and blame . |
| 3 | I 'm going to give this to Rojas now . |
| 4 | My personal view , and I must emphasise that I have n't discussed it with John , is that we should not be offering a general horticultural advice service to all and sundry , but that we should restrict this to areas where we have recognised expertise — Alpine & Rock Gardens , Arboriculture , Glasshouse cultivation and others . |
| 5 | Liberal Democrats will alter the licensing conditions for water companies to extend this to groups of domestic consumers who live on large estates and in sheltered housing complexes . |
| 6 | Fonts under windows 3.00 varied in quality as size changed so Microsoft put this to rights in the latest version of there graphical operating system . |
| 7 | By the 1890s the deleterious effect of the regular testing of limited pupil activities and relating this to teachers ' salaries became apparent |
| 8 | own comment for it to be a negotiated comment , and I 've left this to departments cos |
| 9 | Applying this to problems with p = 2 , we can arrange for w 1 = 1 so we have to solve LP ( 1 , w 2 ) . |
| 10 | Second , instead of continuing with the constitutional convention whereby the Prime Minister has the right to choose a government and a Cabinet , there is a concern to transfer this to Members of Parliament when Labour is in office , giving them the right to elect Cabinet ministers . |
| 11 | Do you think I should read this to members before I send it ? or do you think I should send it ? |
| 12 | Amongst them there was a need to make sense of ones experience through the work , and a desire to communicate this to others . |
| 13 | Since health service planners are concerned about the acceptability of this to mothers-to-be , they are to employ both male and female midwives for a trial period of 12 months in a certain area . |
| 14 | Because they ca n't do this to delegates ! |
| 15 | She says it 's terrible that people could do this to pensioners . |
| 16 | ‘ People , who are grown-up , who do things like this to children , are wicked . |
| 17 | The line I use more often than not is 3lb b.s. , but I would not recommend this to anglers with no experience of long-range legering . |
| 18 | Prometheus tried to rival a God called Zeus by stealing fire from heaven then giving it to Earth which is similar to Frankenstein 's actions because he stole the secret of life and proposed to give this to humans until it went disastrously wrong . |
| 19 | One person can scarcely have the time or the expertise needed to find out what has been published and link this to readers ' needs throughout his authority , especially when book provision is only one of his many responsibilities . |
| 20 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 21 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 22 | Pensions were peculiar to clerks : £4 a year paid out of the parsonage of Wendover to layman Richard Byrch was described as an annuity . |
| 23 | A device peculiar to companies is the ‘ floating charge ’ . |
| 24 | This effect is peculiar to regions of alternating AT since previous studies have shown that cleavage of isolated ApT sites in natural DNAs is poor [ 8-10 ] and we have shown that ApT sites are not cut within blocks of ( AAT ) n . |
| 25 | The air hung with an antiseptic aroma peculiar to hospitals , and as she passed elderly sick people Lucy suddenly felt very young and healthy . |
| 26 | It is just possible that , because these spiritual things are produced by the mind and are therefore peculiar to individuals , varying little or much from person to person , they represent the real and absolute fact of individuality . |
| 27 | This conception , peculiar to individuals of low stature such as idiots , is , by the Materialists , elevated to the status of a ‘ system ’ . ’ |
| 28 | This includes personal " tics " , ways of moving one 's head , habits such as nail-biting , which are peculiar to individuals and not generalisable to the whole group . |
| 29 | Such an omission was not peculiar to this particular school , I realise , nor is it peculiar to schools of its particular type . |
| 30 | Peculiar to Children , was not to teach bad Latin , harsh French , as if the children were ‘ a parcel of Parrots or Magpies ’ , but ‘ to teach them the Government of themselves , their Passions and Appetites ’ . |