Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the meeting on the 5 November the BSI Standards Board agreed to recommend to the BSI Main Board , which met on the 28 November , that the new body be permanently established . |
| 2 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 3 | Those troubles — referred to as the ‘ Irish Rebellion ’ — were overcome only by violent methods used by the ‘ Black and Tans ’ , plus some restless ex-soldiers , known as the ‘ Auxiliaries ’ , and when the facts of those violent methods became known to the British public , they were declared unacceptable — despite the outrages which Sinn Fein had instituted in London and the bombings in Belfast . |
| 4 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 5 | Ringing the woman 's number again , she found her in , and more than ready to offer her somewhat trenchant views on the House of Commons and the way that seminal institution seemed to cling to the outmoded notion that women were an inferior breed . |
| 6 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 7 | Wright looked acclimatised to the First Division , more so than his partner Bright , who has yet to score this season . |
| 8 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 9 | But after Dave Bassett 's side had clung to the 2-1 lead provided by John Gannon 's opening strike of the season , the only first that actually mattered was United 's position in the Second Division . |
| 10 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 11 | These offers were meant to demonstrate that the two younger brothers had gone to the very limit of reasonable concessions , and hence would bear no guilt for the casualties of battle . |
| 12 | Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month . |
| 13 | Her eyes had darkened to an intense , violent green , sparks flaring within their depths , and when he moved towards her once more she lifted her hand and hit him hard across the face , her palm cracking along his cheekbone with satisfying force . |
| 14 | Mr Goddard said the ESC had apologised to the Civic for causing any inconvenience . |
| 15 | In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin . |
| 16 | His restless mind had returned to the unfinished business of Benghazi and the possibility of destroying shipping which he had so far signally failed to achieve . |
| 17 | Sheikh al Hassan 's mind had returned to the important meeting before him . |
| 18 | Mechale said that civil conflict , drought and seed shortages had contributed to the poor harvests in 1991 . |
| 19 | Then he raised his wings and lifted himself up as Slorne had done to the very top of his cage . |
| 20 | Within an hour of the Syrian air attack , Aoun , his family and high-ranking supporters had fled to the French embassy . |
| 21 | But Lucy had moved to an easy chair and sat , chin cupped by an exquisite palm . |
| 22 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 23 | Carlie had said to the social worker in charge of her case . |
| 24 | Carlie had to go to the foster home because she could n't get along with her stepfather . |
| 25 | In a period when the number of courses increased , WEA membership in the District declined by 150 and in 1931 , capitation fees from branches had slumped to a mere £44 . |
| 26 | Tass meanwhile reported that the rioting had spread to the neighbouring Namangan region , with up to 2,000 people involved in riots in its regional capital . |
| 27 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 28 | The industry had responded to the great challenge of a whole era of ‘ Busybodies and Meddlers ’ by not only cleaning up minor abuses but by becoming itself an agency of social improvement . |
| 29 | It occurred to her hazily that her own condition was like that of a bulb she had once seen when the power had been suddenly cut down and the light had dimmed to the faintest red glow in the filament . |
| 30 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |