Example sentences of "to [adj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1887 to 1891 she lived in Paris , where her father was ambassador . |
| 2 | About quarter to eleven we got to bed , but they were going on I fell asleep during the middle of it cos I just got used to the noise |
| 3 | The night before I kept it hot , and hot , and hot , and hot , and by time we did get it at quarter to eight I says to him , oh this is horrible , this ! |
| 4 | From 1828 to 1850 he acted as engineer to the Scottish Fisheries Board , in which capacity he built or improved numerous harbours , including Dunbar , Fraserburgh , Inverness , and Wick . |
| 5 | The top half of the welded steel structure , he continued , would be similar to that which featured in Silence of the Lambs and would have leather belts draped around it . |
| 6 | Peter Bassett , from Chelsea , said that the present economic difficulties bore no relation to that which pertained under the last Labour government when the country had to be bailed out by the International Monetary Fund . |
| 7 | In a ‘ sellers market ’ , similar to that which pertained in the United Kingdom after World War Two , there was little need for promotional activity because demand exceeded supply and whatever was produced was taken up immediately by the market . |
| 8 | With the campaign against the Japanese army still raging he observed , ‘ We have in Burma a potentially dangerous situation … not dissimilar to that which developed in Southern Ireland after the [ last ] war . ’ |
| 9 | the prime weakness of the UK housing market is the near absence of provision of private-renting which would meet the demands of lower income households , a very different situation to that which prevails in many European countries . |
| 10 | Half a century later , in 1969 , First Artists Productions , a new independent film company , was set up by Paul Newman , Sidney Poitier and Barbra Streisand , with a similar aim — a balance between mammon and idealism — to that which led to the formation of UA . |
| 11 | First , its approach is completely different to that which pertains in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
| 13 | It was basically a neighbourly association of kin and workmates , not dissimilar to that which existed in many urban working-class neighbourhoods , but which the outsider could find virtually impenetrable . |
| 14 | In Scotland the increase in vehicle kilometres has followed a pattern very similar to that which resulted from deregulation in England . |
| 15 | It is possible that a ‘ fire storm ’ condition developed in the town , similar to that which occurred in several German cities during the last war , when saturation bombing raids started so many fires that the city became effectively one big fire , sucking into itself hurricane force winds to bring fresh oxygen to the heart of the inferno . |
| 16 | Reports reached Washington that the Shah was hoping for a restoration similar to that which occurred in 1953 . |
| 17 | The reactor was shut down automatically by an emergency cooling system , which floods the reactor core , thereby avoiding the risk of a partial " meltdown " , similar to that which occurred in Three Mile Island , Pennsylvania , in 1979 . |
| 18 | As Lavandera ( 1978b ) has remarked , one paradoxical consequence of the ‘ sea-change ’ in the concept of the sociolinguistic variable evident in the Weiner and Labov paper is that the authors seem to be attempting to argue for a function of variation almost converse to that which emerged from Labov 's earlier work . |
| 19 | More significant still , Cnut 's crown in the New Minster drawing is a lily crown , very similar to that which appears on his first Quatrefoil coin type , but with an additional arched bar spanning its centre . |
| 20 | The situation which we find with regard to the Totem and Taboo analysis is comparable to that which applies to Einstein 's papers on special relativity . |
| 21 | In 1758 , four years after he had added the clerkship of Richmond New Park Lodge to that he held at Hampton Court , when the comptroller of the works , Thomas Ripley [ q.v. ] , was dying , he wrote to Newcastle to apply for his post ; and although in the event the preferment went to Henry Flitcroft [ q.v. ] , it was by Newcastle 's ‘ immediate appointment ’ that Wright was promoted to the posts of master mason and deputy surveyor vacated by the latter . |
| 22 | From Chapman 's point of view , the appointment offered a higher salary , a move to his native Yorkshire and an alluring challenge similar to that he faced at Northampton in 1907 , with the added prestige of League status . |
| 23 | JIM McDONNELL will return to boxing in the new year with determination similar to that he showed against Azumah Nelson in their world title fight last Sunday . |
| 24 | However , it is highly dubious that Britain would have adopted a stance different to that it took in response to Schuman 's public declaration . |
| 25 | Up to 1985 he took at least one US Tour event a season , except for 1981 . |
| 26 | Gold shares , though far dearer than they recently were , are still attractive to some who reckon on rising prices . |
| 27 | To some there appeared to be a direct relationship between US deficits and the euro-dollar market 's growth . |
| 28 | We have a classless society ; to this we point with considerable pride . |
| 29 | Partly as a response to this we distinguish between what we regard as essential capacities of humans and the question of how , or whether , they are exercised . |
| 30 | Species related to this one occur in France , Germany , Italy and Switzerland . |