Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] to [art] [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 | Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 7 | Instead of creating another SSR to reply to the new SPR , it is possible in this case to add the SPR to the SSR which already responds to the problem . |
| 8 | But at 140 Willey went to a superb catch by Roberts , and at the close they were on 146 for 5 , needing another 114 . |
| 9 | personal contacts have also improved : one Soviet commentator reports that ‘ In the past , visits of Soviet and Latin American businessmen to each other for commercial talks or for an appraisal of export and import requirements were incidental ; nowadays hundreds of businessmen and experts from Latin America come to the Soviet Union each year and as many Soviet specialists visit the Latin American countries ’ ( Gladkov : 1975 , pp. 11–12 ) . |
| 10 | On Sept. 18-19 Baker delivered to the Syrian government a draft version of a " letter of assurances " reportedly confirming that the US regarded the Golan Heights as an occupied territory . |
| 11 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 12 | The Bosnian Serbs objected to the original Vance-Owen plan for four reasons . |
| 13 | 6.8 Richard Duncan ( Ards ) who collected the 200m Freestyle for 11–12 year olds last night , netted a championship triple with victories in the 100m and 200m Backstroke. 8.5 Duncan cruised to a comfortable win over Lisburn 's Neal McGrann with a championship best time of 1.16.38 . |
| 14 | It is no coincidence that the areas of greatest prosperity in late twentieth-century Britain correspond to the civil area of the Roman province : at no time since the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain in AD 410 has the economic and political relationship with continental Europe been so close . |
| 15 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 16 | In 1251 Henry returned to the royal service . |
| 17 | On March 3 Libya appealed to the International Court of Justice in the Hague ( as the judicial arm of the UN ) , asking it to take measures to prevent the dispute escalating . |
| 18 | the set also includes Debussy 's famous orchestrations of the First and Third Gymnopèdies , two short pieces ( Les Pantins dansent and Chooses vues à droite et à gauche [ sans lunettes ] , the latter his only pieces for violin and piano ) and the reasonably well-known Scorate , whose last movement can be heard either as 22 minutes of timeless , hypnotic beauty or the nearest Satie came to a musical sleeping draught . |
| 19 | BASF Lacke , Germany , and Yasar Holding , Turkey , have agreed to licence the use of BASF 's know-how in the field of automotive OEM paints to a Turkish company Dyosad , a subsidiary of Yasar Holding . |
| 20 | Of the pretreatment variables , the PTHrP concentration and serum phosphate correlated best with response ( table II ) : higher PTHrP was more likely to be associated with a poor response , whereas all treatments associated with undetectable PTHrP led to a good response . |
| 21 | Market Report : Fragile Footsie plunges to a ten-week low |
| 22 | Flynn was the nearest John had to a right-hand man . |
| 23 | It was clearly related to the Lombard style of Northern Italy owing to the political links between the two countries under the Holy Roman Empire . |
| 24 | In so far as this affects the contemporary architecture , the Ostrogothic work in Italy has already been discussed ( see Volume I , Ravenna ) but the Visigothic work in northern Spain was influential as was the effect of the Merovingian culture in northern France leading to the Carolingian dynasty in northern Europe under Charlemagne . |
| 25 | When he presented a new Kwik-Cricket set to the Barbadian Secretary of State for Education , the minister promptly moved desks , bookshelves and even delayed leaving for a cabinet meeting so that he could play the game in his office . |
| 26 | When Shaw died in 1950 he was a very rich man — the net value of his estate was eventually assessed at around £6,250,000 in terms of today 's money ; and the closest Holroyd comes to a sustained narrative is in tracing the fate of his various bequests . |
| 27 | The optimists point out that the most substantial progress in Russian political life was the establishment of the Duma monarch ( 1906-1914 ) , the closest Russia got to a constitutional Government . |
| 28 | A friend of the late Giovanni Falcone , one of Italy 's martyrs in its fight against the Mafia , Baltasar ‘ Superjudge ’ Garzon is the closest Spain has to an anti-Mafia crusader . |
| 29 | So on 29 October 1955 Fisher recommended to the prime minister that Bell be asked to move to York because he was the biggest person in sight and — despite his age — ‘ he might tide over for five or six years ’ ; and that Ramsey be invited to go to London , because that huge see would ‘ respond to his commanding ability ’ . |
| 30 | Even a £10 million Canaletto , sold to Andrew Lloyd Webber , or perhaps an even more astonishing $1.7 million Breenbergh sold to the Metropolitan Museum , New York , can not veil the reserve of private collectors and buyers . |