Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 40 members , nine were chiefs ; the remainder belonged to the old intelligentsia . |
| 2 | The remainder went to the Georgian Popular Front , other party blocs , and independents . |
| 3 | The remainder went to the Socialist Party ( four seats ) , the Party of Yugoslavs ( one ) and independents ( three ) ; one seat remained vacant . |
| 4 | By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit . |
| 5 | In the event , the award went to the veteran midday cowboy John Wayne for his performance in True Grit and/or for never having won an Oscar before . |
| 6 | The creditor appealed to the High Court of Australia . |
| 7 | We paid for tea , but the money went to the Red Cross . |
| 8 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |
| 9 | ‘ This is him , Fagin , ’ the Dodger said to the old man . |
| 10 | The case went to the Supreme Court , which found against Rory Finegan at the end of July 1979 . |
| 11 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 12 | The gamekeeper ran to the nearby camp of the navvies and with the aid of a sheep-hurdle Putt was carried through the village to the manor . |
| 13 | As fast as the council ordered the arrest of one carrier , the story ran to the opposite end of the land and broke out afresh . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , ’ the driver said to the old lady . |
| 15 | Maxim suspected that the cottage belonged to the old man , too , and went with the job . |
| 16 | She hid in bushes while the fiend ran to the central reservation before losing sight of her and driving off . |
| 17 | After dinner the talk fell to the great question which was uppermost in Lewis 's mind : that question being , in the words of his pupil Betjeman , ‘ and is it true , and is it true , this most amazing tale of all ? ’ |
| 18 | From the airport the Sadats and the Pahlavis drove to the Oberoi Hotel , which is secluded in a man-made island in the Nile . |
| 19 | Hoping to convince other pupils of the value of studying the language , the teenagers wrote to the famous and the not-so-famous to find out whether Latin lessons are any use in modern life . |
| 20 | Subsequently the contemnor complained to the local authority that they had not served the committal order on him personally and had failed to comply with the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules , that ‘ in all cases the applicant 's solicitors are responsible for serving the committal order ’ and that in consequence the order should be set aside . |
| 21 | Their activities at the start of NEP are studied in the chapter devoted to the cultural capital , which was still Petrograd rather than Moscow in 1922 . |
| 22 | We now know from Russian eyes , particularly from Khrushchev 's much suspected but surely authentic memoirs , how precarious and nerve-ridden the future looked to the Communist high command when Stalin succumbed to his stroke on 5 March , 1953 . |
| 23 | The defendant pointed to the close relationship of those witnesses and Paulette , the background of tension and domestic strife and the animosity of each of them towards the defendant and stressed the ease with which their evidence could have been fabricated and the absence of corroboration . |
| 24 | Mr Taylor said it was difficult to say why the seat went to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 25 | That year was special , the marchers marched to the British atomic research centre in Berkshire . |
| 26 | Faced with an annual poll tax demand of £380 ‘ for which we do n't even get the bin emptied ’ says secretary/manager Vince Kirkup the club wrote to the new Lib-Dem administration seeking relief . |
| 27 | After all , the walkers got to the top first . |
| 28 | The Deacons belonged to the Sandemanian church , whose most famous member , Michael Faraday [ q.v. ] , took an interest in their son . |
| 29 | The issue went to the International Court at The Hague in 1973 , but France said it did not recognise the court 's jurisdiction in the matter . |
| 30 | The girl pointed to the open window with a Wagnerian sweep of her arm . |