Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official human rights sources in the country reported 228 " extrajudicial executions " and 45 disappearances in 1991 , two-thirds of them attributable to the security forces and civil patrols . |
| 2 | But , send them unaccompanied to Tescos |
| 3 | I mean they 're normal to us but they 're not normal to other people , so why should we make them normal to them , just to please society ? |
| 4 | Because that 's the way you develop players , give them a chance of first-grade football and get them used to operating in the big time . |
| 5 | We take them out at about six months to get them used to travelling on buses and trains , as well as teaching them to stop at kerbs , listening for traffic and avoiding any obstacles . |
| 6 | It occurred to me , when I got to know some of these families , that they really might believe that their position on the hill placed them nearer to heaven than the less privileged folk below . |
| 7 | She can hear their conversations , in cars , in bedrooms , in restaurants , at other parties , as time draws them nearer to her , to one another , to her house . |
| 8 | They are for them nearer to home . |
| 9 | To force increased employment costs on such firms , as we do when we add all that baggage to employees , is likely to drive them nearer to the margin , nearer to closing down . |
| 10 | I do n't think Nothing that to hand immediately , no . |
| 11 | There is nothing undesirable to be seen in the plush frame . |
| 12 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 13 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 14 | Sarah began to despise me due to my pregnancy . |
| 15 | The service is free , and you will find that most stores prefer you to place your list with them eight to ten weeks before the wedding . |
| 16 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 17 | Quite simply , this will ensure that the loan repayments are protected if you are unable to meet them due to the death , illness or injury of specified members of your business . |
| 18 | The farm had lined up a series of dates last month , but cancelled them due to recording commitments . |
| 19 | Those local authorities contain the number of Labour members that serve on them due to the choice of the electorate . |
| 20 | The farm had lined up a series of dates last month , but cancelled them due to recording commitments . |
| 21 | Each student entering , gains experience and confidence and for the winners , many doors open to them due to the kudos of the event and the talent they have demonstrated . |
| 22 | The program enables you to make designs , print them out , or transfer them direct to the E6000 console . |
| 23 | Manufacturers of goods such as machine tools , computers , ships and other large or expensive items tend to move them direct to the buyer without involving middlemen or intermediaries . |
| 24 | Once the syndicate was formed and terms agreed , the borrower would sell the bonds to the managing group , which in turn would sell them direct to the underwriters or the selling group , who in turn would distribute the bonds to the public . |
| 25 | Perhaps sending them direct to me will save the listserver from getting clogged up with train spotting messages . |
| 26 | This would involve a small bus ferrying disabled shoppers from their homes and taking them into the heart of the town before returning them direct to their front door . |
| 27 | My deliberate actions are means to ends , and are defended in debate by proving them adequate to the ends . |
| 28 | By hell what I would n't give to see Leeds paste them 3–4 to nothing . |
| 29 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 30 | There is nothing derogatory to the teacher intended in such a suggestion . |