Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 2 | In other words , the visitor has been either expressly or implicitly invited to the premises . |
| 3 | Since the building of the huge medieval tithe barns , constant changes in farming methods have meant that most farm buildings have had to be adapted to new uses or else demolished or simply abandoned to the elements . |
| 4 | Five other countries " Russia , Poland , Pakistan , Iraq and Ireland " are given awards for being " tragic examples of countries unresponsive or actively opposed to the desires of women and men for greater control over their reproductive lives " . |
| 5 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
| 6 | Although clearly designed to the specifications laid down by Ceauşescu so that it would be a suitable monument to his glory as well as a home and office for the remainder of his working life , the colossal building was always officially described as the Civic Centre . |
| 7 | Although strongly opposed to the changes in other East European countries , the government in 1989 embarked on a programme of limited reforms under the slogan " democratization " . |
| 8 | The traditional doctrines of ‘ inspiration ’ and ‘ inerrancy ’ were posed in terms that actually added to the problems . |
| 9 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 10 | He dispassionately and properly referred to the feelings of locomotive drivers . |
| 11 | Turkey , it says , has gone to war and thereby surrendered to the Americans . |
| 12 | Of Gallagher , it said that by pulling into Gooch 's path he caused Gooch 's car to swerve and so contributed to the deaths of the 5. 2 children and 3 teenagers were killed . |
| 13 | There is no doubt , however , that the programme envisaged for 1993 and beyond is more coherent , better balanced and better attuned to the realities of a professional game which is increasingly dependent on the success or failure of the England team . |
| 14 | Had shock therapy been applied and not led to the results expected , then it would indeed have been a failure . |
| 15 | There were two other bishops in Wales at this time , at Llandaff and St Davids : both of them were Welshmen , and both adhered to the customs of the Celtic Church . |
| 16 | All its major innovations — the sale of council houses , the reform of the unions , privatization of industry , tax reform — had met with popular acclaim and substantially added to the Conservatives ' constituency . |
| 17 | It was , the classic New Zealand manoeuvre , the line-out won from the top by Martin Bayfield , the ball moved quickly to midfield by Aadel Kardooni , carried vigorously into the heart of the opposing forwards by Victor Ubogu , and then returned to the backs going left . |
| 18 | They will have to be slowed down by moderators to the energy required , and then guided to the instruments in which the scientists will study their materials . |
| 19 | NGL 107060 ; ( 2 ) possession of 100 , Gurney Road ; ( 3 ) a declaration that the trustee was in the events which happened solely and beneficially entitled to the proceeds of sale of 11 , Stork Road , London E.7 . |
| 20 | Stiff and cold in personal relations , he was pompous and excessively attached to the trappings of power . |
| 21 | The farmers and shepherds in the valleys may seem to have lived an isolated existence , if one thinks of Michael , but the wool from the sheep would be carded and spun in the cottages , and ultimately sent to the towns . |
| 22 | we believe that undergraduates in English would benefit from more ‘ systematic ’ and less ‘ inspirational ’ instruction and that this systematic instruction and its associated reading lists should be agreed by the teachers concerned and closely related to the needs of the Tripos course . |
| 23 | Most of the Celtic Church 's sacred texts apparently continued in use for a time , after which they were gradually and quietly consigned to the libraries of orthodox Irish abbeys and monasteries . |
| 24 | In speech we frequently use reference words such as the demonstratives this and that or the personal pronouns , he , she , it to point to persons or objects present and therefore known to the participants . |
| 25 | Are the membership aware of this and actively committed to the goals of the alliance ? |
| 26 | Former women compositors remembered working mainly with other women but all referred to the men who " carried the formes for us " , or " carried away the type to put in galleys " , though one remarked " my immediate boss was a woman " . |
| 27 | In the South Wales case , for example , there is a zone called the ‘ golden triangle ’ which is widely perceived as especially attuned to the specifications of the new , ‘ high tec ’ , mainly Japanese industries . |