Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 2 | Item — he believed the deaths of the mysterious young man and woman some eighteen months previously held the clue to the riddle surrounding Lady Eleanor 's demise , but who were they and what did the motto ‘ Noli me tangere ’ signify ? |
| 3 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 4 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
| 5 | HOSPITAL officials yesterday opened the doors to a showpiece mental health unit . |
| 6 | So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb . |
| 7 | Monks suddenly pushed the table to one side and opened a small door in the floor . |
| 8 | These studies clearly defined the lessons to be learned from the accident , and in turn these lessons led to many official recommendations that were directly aimed at improving the safety of such plants and minimising the consequences of future accidents . |
| 9 | The conditions typically restricted the defendant to peaceful picketing at his or her usual place of employment , but they could be wider than this , embracing curfews and residency requirements such as the stipulation on one occasion that a defendant reside in Wick ( Wallington , 1985 : 156 ) . |
| 10 | The irony was that an episode which offered proof of Morrissey 's distrust of established institutions now elevated The Smiths to an almost legendary status . |
| 11 | Such arguments naturally alerted the authorities to the possible threat posed by such an organization . |
| 12 | Ironically when Randalstown first won the league title two seasons Victorians again held the key to their title victory . |
| 13 | The English and Australian newspapers heavily took the team to task . |
| 14 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 15 | The two men then left the office to lunch , as arranged , with the attorney-general . |
| 16 | Ironically , substitute Andy Roddie 's introduction for all the wrong reasons briefly turned the game to their advantage . |
| 17 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 18 | The Lords and Commons both ordered the book to be burned by the public hangman and all remaining copies to be seized . |
| 19 | There was no dramatic switch to a materialist paradigm in science ; materialistic and holistic/vitalistic philosophies both survived the transition to a more experimental approach to the study of life , at least temporarily . |
| 20 | Germany 's merely aristocratic performers happily bent the knee to Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer . |