Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 2 | Two Nationalist members of Parliament recently defected to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 3 | Crystal Palace winger Salako — he broke down again earlier this season — and Ian Durrant of Rangers both went to America to have a dead person 's tendon implanted in the knee . |
| 4 | The deputy Foreign Minister of Iran recently went to Paris to negotiate the transfer of enriched uranium from France . |
| 5 | Laidlaw waited until the prostitute was out of sight then nodded to Graham who had been standing by the tree . |
| 6 | The recommendations which flowed from this committee , published in 1919 , owed much to one member , Raymond Unwin , and it is from this source that earlier years of experiment in site planning ( focusing particularly on density and layout ) , house design and standards of accommodation finally came to fruition as national policy . |
| 7 | Berkeley , nevertheless , thought that to concede anything to materialism was to concede too much , and that any element of materialism inevitably led to scepticism and atheism . |
| 8 | ANL supporters in Cleveland recently travelled to Paris to join an anti-racist demonstration , carrying letters of support from Middlesbrough council leader Mike Carr , Cleveland and North Yorkshire MEP David Bowe and Mehdi Husaini , chairman of Cleveland Racial Equality Council . |
| 9 | The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth . |
| 10 | INVESTMENT in safety has scaled new heights at Courtaulds Chemicals in the UK with a massive 6,000 man days per year now devoted to training . |
| 11 | With many of the other leading generation engineers having taken positions as divisional controllers , he was difficult to replace , and responsibility as Pask 's deputy for generation thus fell to J. D. Peattie , an ex-CEB operations engineer , with little experience of the power station design side , and to other ex-CEB staff who had previously liaised with the undertakings on power station design . |
| 12 | Gold medal for daffodils also went to Brian Duncan , J Walker and the Society 's Narcissus and Tulip Group . |
| 13 | The prospect of any trouble at all that did n't involve demoralisation at Willesden suddenly seemed to Charles a welcome change . |
| 14 | According to Morolli : ‘ The seed sown by Lorenzo eventually came to fruition in Rome in the time of his son Giovanni , the future Pope Leo X. Seen in this light , Bramante and Raphael are the products of Florentine taste ’ . |