Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
| 2 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
| 3 | Had it been only the interests of traders that were being considered , there would have been no need for Britain to have responded to the competitive challenge of other European states by formalizing and expanding her own empire , with all that this entailed in provoking international tensions , arms expenditures , and general insecurity . |
| 4 | Some 100,000 Germans from the five eastern Länder ( states ) in Germany were estimated to have moved to the western Länder in the three months following German unification [ see pp. 37826 ; 37829 ] . |
| 5 | This seems to have appealed to the Federal Commission because Mr Zecar came to Zagreb with the same proposition . |
| 6 | How remarkable that it does n't seem to have occurred to the medical profession that earlier wrinkles would be a motivation without parallel in encouraging the female half of the population ( at least ) to abandon the nasty habit . |
| 7 | After the war the site for the statue was chosen at Terreiro da Luta , near the Fonte da Telha where the Virgin was said to have appeared to the little shepherdess . |
| 8 | ‘ It was their story , everything in it seems to have led to the next thing — now it should have a stop ! |
| 9 | Rolle is said to have fled to the nearby village of Pickering , where the squire John de Dalton was impressed by the strangely-clad hermit and agreed to support him and give him an anchorage to live in . |
| 10 | The only large British World War Two surface warship to have survived to the present day , HMS Belfast , is located on the Thames , just west of Tower Bridge . |
| 11 | It is not a label which I want to see attached to the British economy . |
| 12 | A seeker after spiritual truth may respond to the warmth of energy pouring from a guru , without ever questioning whether he wishes to become attached to the particular variety of truth represented . |