Example sentences of "to [det] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignored by the Academy , Little Big Man was acknowledged by The New York Critics and The National Society of Film Critics , who selected Chief Dan George as their Best Supporting Actor , and Harvard Lampoon presented the picture with their annual Twenty Cent Token ‘ to that film which does the most fashionable injustice to a minority class ’ . |
| 2 | The end may be beyond us , but the means are within our grasp , and Gandhi 's view is , that to the degree we use the means to that degree we realize the end . |
| 3 | Shelby soon went back to racing , of course , and more than any other American driver up to that date he bridged the gap between European and American racing cultures . |
| 4 | To confuse the issue , however , the VNQDD was apparently conceived ‘ as a vanguard party , an adaptation of the Bolshevik model in Indo-China , and to that extent it reflected the impact of Marxism ’ . |
| 5 | To that extent it strengthened the hand of the Prime Minister in my earlier period . ’ |
| 6 | And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’ |
| 7 | A ‘ god ’ which mankind can worship is in no way identical to that power which created the universe , if indeed it were created at all within humanity 's understanding of that word . |
| 8 | As the cylinder turns , it is pulled to that side which accelerates the airflow ( figure I ) . |
| 9 | Complementary to that record we have the accounts given by those fans of those very occasions and others like them . |
| 10 | A unique identifier is allocated to each outlet which enables the customer to pinpoint each receipt . |
| 11 | To this suggestion he attributed the Labour Party 's success in the 1964 election and I am sure that no one could have persuaded him otherwise . |
| 12 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 13 | To this end we welcome the support of any interested NCT members who wish to be involved in some way . |
| 14 | To this end we study the UK economy and topics such as production , expenditure , markets , government , trade , firms , money and the banking system all feature prominently . |
| 15 | To this end he urges the setting up of carefully landscaped mountains and waterless deserts in the main centres of population , and their stocking with carnivorous animals and poisonous reptiles . |
| 16 | In the introduction to this paper we discussed the effect of the recession on the minorities in the seventies , when ethnic businesses began to be established . |
| 17 | ‘ Local interpretation ’ probably relates to another strategy which instructs the hearer / reader to do as little processing as possible , only to construct a representation which is sufficiently specific to permit an interpretation which is adequate for what the hearer judges the purpose of the utterance to be . |
| 18 | She passed the streamer to another woman who did the same and each woman who received it made a statement of her sorrow , culminating with a young woman who spoke , with tears running down her face , of her fears for her children . |
| 19 | Certainly , the enlightened medical-research award of the future should go to any researcher who has the wit to do further investigation into the connection between smoking and the complexion . |
| 20 | If the public are to be protected from gratuitous affront , then this will involve applying the manners test not only to public displays but to any matter which invades the privacy of individuals without their consent , which of course extends to unsolicited matter sent through the post . |
| 21 | What had influenced Hollywood , thought Moley , was the ample evidence that ‘ the generality of the public takes its movies seriously and is adversely responsive to any effort which offers the least suspicion that they are being used for some purpose other than entertainment ’ and that in particular ‘ nothing hurts a picture 's chance of success more than the whisper that it contains propaganda ’ . |
| 22 | Phnom Penh objected resolutely to any formula which offered the Khmers Rouges ( the militarily-dominant element of the CGDK ) full involvement in any future Cambodian administration . |