Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 2 | The police officer personally listened to the complete tapes of the interviews and I am therefore not in a position to give a conclusive answer to the question . ’ |
| 3 | Racial theories fared best in policy areas already sensitized to the new conceptions of bodily health — motherhood , insanity and poverty , as well as birth-control and venereal disease . |
| 4 | In 1566 it was still incomplete and easily fell to the French corsairs who attacked Funchal in that year . |
| 5 | People from Huaiwiri thus went to the funerary rites of the Kufra Chief of Police because he was a Hamdu , a member of a slave line attached to the Bu Matari . |
| 6 | Pat Watters , chairman of the personnel services committee which yesterday agreed to the early retirements , said that the council can base the payments on the salary Mr McNeill would have received from 1 April . |
| 7 | One librarian who still clung to the old ideals remarked : |
| 8 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 9 | Any unmixed foil unsold by the buyers clearly still belonged to the Dutch sellers by virtue of the first part of clause 13 . |
| 10 | I once went to the Ajami police station to ask for protection but the British constable would n't open the door to me . ’ |
| 11 | They also referred to the different factions in control in different parts of the country and said : ‘ The general situation in Somalia continues to be insecure and confused . ’ |
| 12 | A cost cutting programme also contributed to the better figures at the company . |
| 13 | In 1700 she contributed an ode on the death of John Dryden [ q.v. ] to Luctus Britanici : or the Tears of the British Muses , and she also contributed to The Nine Muses ( 1700 ) , a volume of poems by women in memory of Dryden edited by Mary Delarivière Manley [ q.v. ] , with whom she had an intense but short-lived friendship . |
| 14 | Sammy Davis Jnr also came to the fore thanks to Sinatra . |
| 15 | The Presidents also appealed to the developed countries for more aid . |
| 16 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 17 | Miloš also wrote to the Austrian authorities and Metternich thought it advisable to remove Vuk from Zemun , first to Buda and then to join his Austrian wife and their two children in Vienna . |
| 18 | He also pointed to the substantive efforts being made to rectify the situation . |
| 19 | He also pointed to the legislative enactments which , together with social ( and anti-social ) pressures , have dogged gypsies : |
| 20 | The dock closures inevitably led to the visible scars of acute environmental deterioration and abject physical dereliction . |
| 21 | A consequence had been the loss of some of the not-so-bright children of local tradespeople or farmers ( who now looked to the independent schools ) , and some alleged decline in the social standing of the school within the town . |
| 22 | Once an élite activity , almost the exclusive prerogative of monks , it now spread to the swelling ranks of secular clerks , to servants in princely households , even to some ordinary townsmen . |
| 23 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |
| 24 | My father simply drove to the nearest police station and the attackers vanished . |
| 25 | With new forms of planning restriction limiting the amount of suburban extension that could be tacked on to existing built-up areas , housing developers increasingly looked to the surrounding rings of smaller settlements lying within commuting distance of city centres . |
| 26 | He then came to the Ottoman domains , an event which Asikpasazade and Nesri assign to the reign of Mehmed I ( 816–24/1413–21 ) . |
| 27 | By then the Italian people had decided that they wanted no more war , so Mussolini was put in prison and a coalition government was formed under Badoglio , which government then surrendered to the Allied Forces . |
| 28 | erm There they might have remained erm but erm a sensational discovery took place , which was during the Second World War , when , in the Blitz , a bomb actually hit the , the , the place of worship for the Muddletonians , where they were still worshipping though in very small number , and the man whom we have called the last Muddletonian , who was a farmer in Matfield in Kent , went out with his lorry — you remember petrol was rationed during the war , but he was allowed as a farmer — he took his fruit to Covent Garden , and then went to the smoking ruins of the Muddletonian worship , and filled his apple boxes with papers , and they remained there until the nineteen seventies . |
| 29 | Huy dismissed the embalmer with a look and abruptly motioned to the two assistants . |
| 30 | It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . |