Example sentences of "[vb base] to the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welcome to the first of our summer sporting specials . |
| 2 | He spoke briefly of the responsibility the rich owe to the poor of the Third World . |
| 3 | Doctor Ryding 's passport bears witness to the thousands of miles he 's travelled helping to save lives for the red cross . |
| 4 | Later , in 1077 , the great pilgrimage church was begun and , all along the route from the French frontier , Romanesque pilgrimage churches were built to give shelter and succour to the thousands of pilgrims . |
| 5 | Their Lordships turn to the first of the orders under appeal , namely the order of Barnett J. refusing to overturn the decision of Judge Cameron not to grant a perpetual stay of the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution . |
| 6 | I now turn to the third of my questions : what controls the whole system ? |
| 7 | It 's not as if they say to their kids : ‘ try to the best of your ability . ’ |
| 8 | I do what I do to the best of my ability and hope that people will hear about it and come and visit . |
| 9 | We have God-given talents for a reason so play to the best of your ability at all times Never be satisfied until you have given 100 per cent . |
| 10 | And then , as you would surely expect if not demand , we come to the greatest of all operettas , ‘ Die Fledermaus ’ ( 1874 ) — starting with the famous overture , and going on to excerpts from the party scene of Act II . |
| 11 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |
| 12 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |
| 13 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |