Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johannitsa threatened the pope with accepting coronation from the patriarch of Constantinople : in 1203 Johannitsa submitted to the Holy See , the legate bestowed the pallium on the archbishop of Trnovo as primate and in November 1204 crowned Johannitsa king of the Bulgars and Wallachians . |
| 2 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 3 | The regional award went to the Northern region — for its good programme of events , good communications and for tackling difficult issues . |
| 4 | The publication of a book by a private citizen led to the breaking-off of diplomatic relations . |
| 5 | The fancy taste for ornaments and trinkets displayed by these peculiar birds appealed to the Victorian dilettante . |
| 6 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 7 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 8 | On the Tuesday our proper visits began to the surrounding area . |
| 9 | His loud , clear laugh resounded to the corniced height of the room . |
| 10 | A similar willingness to perform radical treatment for breast cancer in the absence of evidence from randomised trials led to the misguided mutilation of thousands of women by radical mastectomy . |
| 11 | In an attempt to revive the UN plan the Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas and the French Minister-Delegate attached to the Foreign Affairs Ministry , Edwige Avice , planned to visit Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , at the beginning of February to urge Vietnamese support for an agreement . |
| 12 | In an attempt to revive the deadlocked UN peace plan [ see p. 37712 ] , the Indonesian Foreign Minister , Ali Alatas , and the French Minister-Delegate attached to the Foreign Affairs Ministry , Edwige Avice ( co-chairs of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia — PICC ) , visited Vietnam in early February . |
| 13 | The first set of changes in this period led to the Sexual Offences Amendment Act in 1976 ; the second led to Home Office guidelines on revised police procedures in 1983 ( and later 1986 ) . |
| 14 | In a triumph for the centre and right , the chief victors were the CEDA ( 117 seats ) and the Radicals ( 104 ) ; some forty seats went to the extreme right of Carlists and Alfonsists . |
| 15 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 16 | He may have asked for Norman help against his enemies in 1009 , and a continental source records that he at some point appealed to the French monarch Robert the Pious for assistance , conceivably in the hope that he could exert pressure on the Normans . |
| 17 | Social workers went to the primary school in St Margaret 's Hope , a brand new open-plan building , and removed them from there in front of the other children . |
| 18 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |
| 19 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 20 | AS temperatures soared into the 70 's all across the north west , sensible people headed to the nearest beach . |
| 21 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 22 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , and my right hon. and hon. Friends wrote to the Prime Minister , but we have not received a reply . |
| 23 | When letters were stolen from the Princess Royal in April , Miss Joyce was questioned by police and some newspapers jumped to the wrong conclusion that she was responsible . |
| 24 | High prices led to the severe depletion of wild mink , marten , river otter , and beaver populations , and ranch-bred fur came into its own . |
| 25 | Baby loves her rustic life , another letter continued to the black and white sister in Caen : she 's grown into a fine healthy creature . |
| 26 | This combination led to the older name for the phenomena we are considering : thermohaline convection . |
| 27 | This background led to the present study . |
| 28 | This element broke to the left and Lt Ferris followed . |
| 29 | She and another nurse went to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London to learn the latest techniques in erecting and inserting drips . |
| 30 | She and another nurse went to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London to learn the latest techniques in erecting and inserting drips . |