Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | I now bring before you all the attitudes I now realise to be wrong . |
2 | As well as William I also spoke to Jim . |
3 | An Add-A-Plane jig and planer I normally use to thickness ¼in strips for canoe building provided the answer . |
4 | And on Sunday afternoon I often went to Kidlington , to eat large teas and remember another world . |
5 | As I was quite unable to organise the shop myself and continue with my studies at the university I quickly came to the conclusion that I would have to appoint a temporary manager . |
6 | Now what you want to do in the privacy of your own home in terms of art is one thing , but if I 'm using public money I really need to be able to justify it . |
7 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
8 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
9 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
10 | So Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday I fully intend to . |
11 | Karajan 's 1975 recording on DG is majestic , but it does n't excite me as it should , and I have to say that there are two performances I consistently turn to much more often : first , a Supraphon disc with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Lovro von Matàcic , a rugged and unjustly neglected account which deserves a much wider circulation ( . |
12 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
13 | Stephen prefers my cooking , so for dinner parties I always go to the kitchen and help . |
14 | Most of those who discussed human variety were talking about the differences in the physical appearance of human individuals , though they often mixed up characteristics which now seem to be plainly innate , such as skin colour , with characteristics which are plainly cultural , such as mode of dress . |
15 | The ballot was carried out to coincide with a debate among Euro-MPs which also agreed to the ban in principle . |
16 | The assembly was the first to be held since April 1987 , when Mahathir had narrowly survived a leadership challenge , a contest which subsequently led to a split within the party [ see pp. 35459 ; 35773 ; 36657 ] . |
17 | The assembly was the first to be held since 1987 when Mahathir narrowly survived a leadership challenge from Razaleigh , a contest which subsequently led to a split within UMNO . |
18 | The surplus after taxation adds £67,444 to the retained reserves which now amount to £379,033 . |
19 | The surplus after taxation adds £30,109 to the retained reserves which now amount to £434,941 . |
20 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
21 | In each of these cases , therefore , the innocent purchaser acquired no title to the car which still belonged to the original owner . |
22 | Wyllie , on the point of launching his biography which immodestly refers to him as ‘ The Legend , ’ says he no longer wants the job and has not let his name be put forward . |
23 | Also in India , there appeared a number of radical critiques of its own programme which both contributed to and benefited from the conference on population at Bucharest ( e.g. Weissman 1970 ) . |
24 | They seem , however , to have had little support amongst the lords , and the opposition which undoubtedly existed to Gaunt 's reversal of the acts of the Good Parliament lacked leadership and co-ordination . |
25 | Political success was due to him because of an exceptional intelligence and independence of mind which resolutely refuses to be subservient to the political mandarins of his party . |
26 | In each case there is a copper core with a plating of silver which superficially appears to be identical on the two coins . |
27 | Those currencies which currently belong to the exchange rate mechanism and are not perceived by the markets as likely to join at least the first echelon of a single currency may come under pressure in the market . |
28 | So all in all an excellent result for Washroom which now looks to be a good stable portfolio increasing at a respectable rate . |
29 | On the other side of the quay is the Beatles Boat Restaurant , a large boat which once belonged to the Beatles pop group which arrived in Madeira in a very sorry state but has now been renovated and , along with many small boats , forms an interesting open-air restaurant complex . |
30 | He has opted for the island county this time qualifying under the residential rule which also applies to captain Mark Harris , who has switched clubs from Menai Bridge to Bangor but stays on for his fourth campaign in charge . |