Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] to [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the liberties taken with the human body , the overall composition and the way in which the figures are closely grouped together in shallow depth and intimately related to their surroundings , all these things indicate a debt , however remote , to the Cézanne Baigneuses . |
| 2 | It is also more reliable and better suited to their needs . |
| 3 | The 12,000 American troops in Panama remained on the highest state of alert and largely confined to their bases . |
| 4 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 5 | Almost entirely surrounded by a circle of water that formed part of the original fortifications , and still linked to its neighbours and the port of Zeebrugge about eight miles away by canals , Bruges ' attraction is that its medieval architecture is remarkably intact . |
| 6 | It will create a family doctor service more accountable to its customers and more attuned to its patients ’ needs . ’ |
| 7 | She was afraid , and nearly scrambled to her feet . |
| 8 | Not merely welcomed among them , but escorted around the country by them to various literary and poetry events , and often presented to their confrères as their protégé . |
| 9 | They are indeed the typical items of property of the modern commercial era and particularly suited to its demands because of their exceptional liquidity . |
| 10 | As Chairman of the CNAA and strongly committed to its activities , Sir Michael Clapham was a consistent advocate of increasing the responsibilities of the institutions it validated . |
| 11 | Alfonso , on the other hand , though go-ahead and energetic , was of a docile nature and readily deferred to his parents and his eldest sister Urraca , so that he became the favourite son and developed all the traits of a spoilt child . |
| 12 | ‘ Something like that , ’ said Kelly , and then returned to her thoughts . |
| 13 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
| 14 | Hi-Lo ( about £5 ) is a device that allows hanging baskets to be lowered for watering and then returned to their positions . |
| 15 | At midnight they drank a toast to the New Year , joined hands to sing Auld Lang Syne and then returned to their cells . |
| 16 | Each ceremony usually starts with the presentation of one or more honorary graduands who are introduced by speeches from the public orators and then admitted to their degrees by the Chancellor . |
| 17 | It grew and grew , but still kept to its tunnels , some of which it enlarged as it grew . |
| 18 | But now added to her feelings of distress , are disgust and anger . |
| 19 | But now added to her feelings of distress , are disgust and anger . |
| 20 | But now added to her feelings of distress , are disgust and anger . |
| 21 | For this reason , some teachers in special schools have seen the structure of the National Curriculum , with its detailed demands for recording progress , as well matched to their traditions ( Sebba 1990 ) . |
| 22 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |