Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 2 | The recognition of interests and groups in society , and a concern to see them in relation to government and the development of public policy represented an important breakthrough in the study of British politics . |
| 3 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 4 | What about a chess-playing machine , programmed to examine the board and then ‘ imagine ’ thousands of possible moves and evaluate them in relation to each other ? |
| 5 | Change them from fund to fund . |
| 6 | Change them from fund to fund , mm . |
| 7 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 8 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 9 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 10 | In developing a critique of scientism ( which Habermas regards Knowledge and Human Interests to be ) he is not rejecting the epistemological validity of the nomological sciences or the hermeneutic sciences but is trying to orient them in relation to the critical sciences . |
| 11 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 12 | The meeting will decide the commission 's recommendations on which parts of Europe should have Objective 1 status , which will qualify them for access to the largest EC aid fund . |
| 13 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 14 | The very concentration of attention on female breasts seemed to swell them with pride to melon-like proportion — or disproportion , for they would flatten and disappear just as mysteriously ten years later . |
| 15 | Day and weekend sacks are light enough for you to simply pack them with accessibility to key items of equipment like waterproofs the main priority . |
| 16 | The fact that they 've chosen to have somebody representing them in objection to the new settlement proposal I think is as strong an indication as you can get that the local people do n't actually support the council on this point . |
| 17 | But the more people who obtain post-school education , the less likely it is to provide them with entry to a career . |
| 18 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 19 | While policing may involve social control , lawyers ' work is that of translators , taking everyday problems defined by clients and resolving them by reference to the body of legal discourse , a reference which may , of course , involve considerable creative elaboration . |
| 20 | That is , is the colour rising up from underneath in an individuating way , or is it a light cast from down er from on top by the one , which then could n't individuate them with respect to people for instance . |
| 21 | In the early nineteenth century , Lamartine stayed with the Damiani family in Jaffa and mentioned them in Voyage to the Orient , the same book in which he advertised the colonial possibilities of Palestine . |
| 22 | Well , the national secretary 's national officers are of course accountable to the C E C , they are accountable to congress , the introduction of section conferences means that they have another , an additional level of accountability , which does n't replace the accountability to the C E C or to Congress , but supplements it and subjects them of course to a closer scrutiny and a closer contact with the major activists in a whole sector of employment . |
| 23 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 24 | Following the failure of his appeal , the appellant wrote on 15 July 1989 complaining that Detective Constable Woodley , who had interviewed him in relation to the offence of which he was convicted , had fabricated admissions in the record of interview . |
| 25 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 26 | Billie lay there , imagining Adam with that smart-arse grin across his face , as he watched the girl abuse his body , lick it from toe to top . |
| 27 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 28 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 29 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 30 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |