Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the great distress of his father , a natural conformist who was most anxious to secure a permanent post for his brilliant son , Wolfgang decided to shake off the shackles of patronage , and leave provincial Salzburg to go freelance in cosmopolitan Vienna . |
| 2 | The Jews came from Central and Eastern Europe to evade persecution in 1848–50 , 1863 and the 1880s , until national legislation was passed in 1905 to restrict the scale of immigration . |
| 3 | On April 8 , European leaders attending an EC summit meeting in Luxembourg endorsed a plan put forward by UK Prime Minister John Major for the creation of a UN " enclave " in northern Iraq to protect Kurds from further attacks by the Iraqi government . |
| 4 | But some analysts expect Euro Disney to make losses until 1996 . |
| 5 | The Minworth subsidiary , Strontian Minerals Ltd , reopened the old Strontian lead mine in western Scotland to extract baryte from open pit and underground workings . |