Example sentences of "to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerks and scholars of the University of Oxford were reported to have gathered ‘ to them great numbers of evil-doers in unlawful assemblies , with no small power by night and by day ’ . |
| 2 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first of these three problems , which is the most important in numerical terms — accounting for just under 10% of all unsatisfied requests — is also the most easily solved , and could very largely be eliminated simply by encouraging readers to consult the Library 's catalogues before submitting a call-slip , and by making available to them printed instructions on the location and interpretation of catalogue entries for serial publications . |
| 5 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
| 6 | ‘ I had listened to them spellbound , just as I once , as a small girl , hid behind my father 's sofa and heard Samuel Coleridge recite his Ancient Mariner 's Rime . |
| 7 | What Marx and Engels show is that since these ideas are examples of ideology , attributing to them causal primacy amounts to making them unquestionable , and to making the social order which they legitimate and organize — capitalism — free from possible challenge . |
| 8 | Second , the small congregation at St Barnabas ' , of some fifteen , that were to be ‘ moved in on ’ had had to accept radical changes that were presented to them prior to the move for their agreement . |
| 9 | As with the indecent assaults on males , the predominant feature of these reports is that they are concerned with men abusing their positions of trust rather than being some unknown sex beasts who are assaulting victims not known to them prior to the offence . |
| 10 | ‘ We all went to them Cadillac Bar for lunch which was really good Mexican food . |
| 11 | Expressing such a duty as a duty to further the interests of the enterprise is unhelpful , however , since the formulation has very limited information content : it fails to identify the relevant constituencies and gives no indication of what priority should be afforded to them inter se . |
| 12 | The chairmen were , of course , willing to make some cuts where the national interest required it , but Gaitskell pushed them too far , making what seemed to them impossible demands . |
| 13 | So when you say to them sorry you do n't get any money because they 're not entitled to it what happens then ? |
| 14 | What I have here described as the " normality " which human beings regularly attribute to what seems to them simple , intelligible , logically ordered , in contradistinction to the " abnormality " of disorderly unintelligibility , might , from a slightly different point of view , be seen as the opposition between the " rational " and the " emotional " . |
| 15 | ( Princes ) do not have the right to say that they find the books dedicated to them atrocious or that the music which they play for them scorches their ears … |
| 16 | It seemed to them naïve to suppose , like Descartes , that physical forces could lead to the formation during embryonic development of such complex structures as animals possessed , particularly since Descartes in no way explained how the forces could mould the embryo . |
| 17 | He 's written to them numerous times and they say what money . |
| 18 | Prior to the First World War unrelieved hostility towards the Jews , which expressed both obsession with their alleged power and ascribed to them filthy moral and personal habits , was rare . |
| 19 | Since April 1991 , non-taxpayers ( people whose taxable income is less than their allowances ) can request institutions such as banks and building societies to pay any interest owing to them gross , without deduction of tax at source . |
| 20 | Such processed foods therefore have added to them artificial colours , flavours , flavour enhancers ( usually monosodium glutamate , MSG ) , texturizers , emulsifiers and preservatives — most of which are chemicals of no particular use to the body and many of which may actually be harmful . |
| 21 | ‘ The aim is that the foundation will go and talk with the people of this region who have big farms , or business people and explain to them special projects and ask for funds . ’ |
| 22 | It aims to relate to the main area of the job description , but also leaves space for people to say what seems to them significant with more freedom . |
| 23 | They , they were probably given to them secondhand an'all |
| 24 | 100,000 livres are paid to them weekly . |
| 25 | As a consequence , the very idea of politics became degraded and execrated in the minds of the citizens , as it seemed to them synonymous with lawlessness , mendacity and opportunism . ’ |
| 26 | To them enlightened rule , in so far as they thought in terms of it at all , meant simply effective solutions to immediate problems . |
| 27 | Henry VII extended the Crown estates ; Henry VIII added to them monastic lands and developed the subsidy ; Mary restored the value of the customs duties . |
| 28 | Others who have not this privilege would be well advised to listen carefully to recordings with the score , and to go over many times passages which seem to them obscure or unfamiliar in sound at a first hearing . |
| 29 | But at first it seemed to them magnificent . |
| 30 | Because of their irregular participation in the labour market most seasonal workers would not have paid or had credited to them sufficient social security contributions to be eligible for the alternative , less generous state sickness benefit . |