Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionist publications also devoted much attention to Asquith 's Honours Lists , and in October 1912 Our Flag listed thirty-nine " Radical Plutocrats " , of which twenty-three had been ennobled by the Liberals — " so far " . |
| 2 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 3 | The programme also included some reference to school visits and exchanges , the advisory service and some experimentation with computer assisted language learning . |
| 4 | Weber also gave more emphasis to status as a factor which , in some circumstances , could override the effects of class on social behaviour and ideas , often to the point of diminishing them entirely . |
| 5 | SmithKline Beecham also gained another 16p to 440p on further consideration of Tuesday 's figures . |
| 6 | There , he and his fellow students ‘ often gave more time to books than drawing ’ , and his life became an attractive combination of early-morning reading , architectural work in the day , and evenings playing the violin with his father at festivities in and around Bockhampton . |
| 7 | Chamberlain paid a tribute to Baldwin , which while predictably pedestrian was a great deal less embarrassing than Harcourt 's reading from ‘ a well-thumbed manuscript ’ at the famous ‘ blubbering Cabinet ’ which said farewell to Gladstone in 1894 Baldwin then paid another tribute to MacDonald ( still there as Lord President of the Council ) for whom it was also the end . |
| 8 | The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence ; they massed around them and tried to engulf them . |
| 9 | You never took that form to school . |