Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 2 | He was successfully recommended by the council to the Surrey electors in March 1553 , and served the county again in Mary I 's third and Elizabeth I 's first Parliaments . |
| 3 | The two smaller ‘ outlier ’ setts would have been completely destroyed by the planned construction work , and so were completely excavated , while the third was only excavated at the end to be affected by the construction . |
| 4 | Long regarded as the pendant to ‘ Chien courant ’ at the Norton Simon Foundation , recent studies have suggested Tajan 's picture to be later ( est . |
| 5 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |
| 6 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 7 | My own survey in Brighton indicates that GHQ scores and reported deterioration in health are highly related to the extent to which unemployed men can maintain the social contact , collective purpose , activity , time-structure and status that Jahoda identified . |
| 8 | ‘ The lodge was apparently named for the rock to the left of the cove opening , ’ she informed him dispassionately . |
| 9 | The newspapers , the radio , the people in the streets , all talked of the drift to war . |
| 10 | By the time the Corporation 's new cars were ready for delivery , Penge depôt in Oak Grove Road was sufficiently advanced for the cars to be stored there , together with the remaining eight of the first batch . |
| 11 | The quality of the relationships is greatly affected by the approach to them and to the task adopted by the project manager . |
| 12 | Wessex , long ruled by the dynasty to which both Alfred and Æthelred belonged , submitted to Cnut late in 1015 , as it had to his father two years earlier . |
| 13 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 14 | This view is not based on logic but is greatly influenced by the programming to which we have all been subject from day one of our lives . |
| 15 | It is surmised that he fell into the sea near Leith , perhaps overcome by the giddiness to which he was prone , following an attack of sunstroke in India . |
| 16 | Quantitive data , such as examination passes , tend to be the easiest to measure , and schools have rightly worried about the use to which these can be put when comparing one school with another . |
| 17 | It was not proposed that the two phases necessarily identified with the fibrils to be observed in highly drawn polymers although such identification is clearly possible . |
| 18 | She was asked to draw on her knowledge of the subject 's life material and reply to each question , supplying evidence , as nearly as possible using the subject 's own words , that was sufficiently detailed for the answer to be evaluated properly against the original SADS-L criteria . |
| 19 | Moreover , these often troublesome missions did little to make the Russian government better informed about the countries to which they went . |
| 20 | By 1950 things were sufficiently improved for the bondholders to be paid their 3% interest ( for that year only ) , although interest on the Brewery loan was not paid . |
| 21 | I have been told that the companies were merely prompted by the orders to ’ review ’ their commercial strategy . |
| 22 | Homely Persian pottery of the twelfth to thirteenth century combines animal and bird images with sinuous plant motifs and marks the beginning of lustre wares ; they are mostly priced in the £500 to £1,000 range and rate high on charm . |
| 23 | The fate of any bill , whether initiated by the President or by a member , is effectively decided by the committee to which it is allocated on its introduction to Congress . |
| 24 | I thought we could have lunch in the garden after your inspection — I 've already arranged for the fridge to be restocked — and afterwards , if you do n't fancy going to the beach , we could go out in my boat , or I 'll take you for a tour of North Zealand , through the quaint old villages with their farmhouses and gardens full of hollyhocks and the beech woods . |
| 25 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 26 | But this school was not considered by the authorities to be a suitable place of safety . |
| 27 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 28 | This planned initiative runs alongside individual action and studies show that this system is not deemed by the teachers to be incompatible with their creative freedom ( Bjerke , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | The men it seems , were utterly overwhelmed by the need to be thus entreated and made a response so gallant , ( alas , unrecorded ) that the ladies in return ( on June 26th ) offered the ‘ Ladies ’ Cup ’ trophy ‘ in recognition of the kindnesses received ’ . |
| 30 | Easily approached from the Scarborough to Bridglington road , or from the Staxton roundabout on the A64 , the village is about two miles from the sea at Hunmanby Gap and Primrose Valley , and is the gateway to the Wolds countryside . |