Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 2 | Whas probably belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne , for which the Missal was made , and Siferwas may have resided at Sherborne while decorating the manuscript . |
| 3 | Forty or fifty years ago , Irish traders also came to the fair bringing crates of geese and pullets , and the locals would buy a goose from them to fatten up for Christmas . |
| 4 | Political considerations simultaneously led to the Soviet decision to abandon its rights , derived from the Yalta Agreements and specified in the Chinese-Soviet treaty of friendship of August 1945 , to exclusive use of the naval base in Port Arthur and shared use of the port of Dairen in the Chinese People 's Republic . |
| 5 | Candidates either wrote to the Colonial Office or to an influential relative , or , not infrequently , walked in off the street . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Before they lost office the Conservatives also responded to the growing evidence on the extent of poverty , and the inadequacies of existing measures , by setting up a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1905 . |
| 8 | Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said . |
| 9 | Medics also responded to the feminist challenge by drawing on their new sexual ideology to label the ‘ shrieking sisterhood ’ as immoral and impure for daring to speak publicly about sexuality . |
| 10 | The Anschluss of Austria , the occupation of the Bohemian part of Czechoslovakia and , following the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact of August 1939 , the invasion of Poland eight days later led to the second world war , the death of scores of millions and , on May 7 , 1945 , unconditional German surrender to the Allies . |
| 11 | Collinson had told John Bartram to consult this work in the library before sending him a personal copy in 1737 and two years later wrote to the American collector : |
| 12 | Tarkovsky : although Italian-funded , his films never pandered to the vacuous pan-European market |
| 13 | Sources also pointed to the swift response of troops loyal to General Noriega , especially the 7th Infantry , as evidence that he can still count on important parts of the military to back him up . |
| 14 | Delegates also agreed to the phased lifting of sanctions in categories to be determined by the newly elected NEC . |
| 15 | Following the increase for the eldest eligible child last April , we have made a further increase for all children in October , with corresponding increases in income-related benefit rates to make sure that the less well-off families also gained to the same extent . |
| 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 | The Presidents also appealed to the developed countries for more aid . |
| 18 | Also numerous parcels now belonged to the great religious foundations of the region as a result of pious donations ; if many of these were tenanted in conjunction with other , larger holdings , they were unavailable for small men , while there were not enough of the big farmers , who did occupy them , to employ more than a very limited number of servants . |
| 19 | The demonstrators then marched to the old town and began to destroy property owned by President Hastings Kamuzu Banda . |
| 20 | Nine portfolios thus went to the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) and five to the Socialist Party ( PS — whose three major factions re-united following an agreement signed by them on Dec. 30 , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | The Corporals then disappeared to the different section bars which were doing business all over the camp . |
| 22 | The police then went to the new home of the former lodger , entered it , and arrested her . |
| 23 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 24 | Rushed along through the dark , their faces soon settled to the same blank , tranced appearance as everyone else 's . |
| 25 | Actual demographic trends also contributed to the outward movement , as the rearing of the 1960s baby boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 26 | The dock closures inevitably led to the visible scars of acute environmental deterioration and abject physical dereliction . |
| 27 | However , Senate President Alain Poher , RPR and UDF deputies and others immediately appealed to the Constitutional Council over the law . |
| 28 | Highly paid male employment re-emerged during the war and remained in the post-war boom , but women never retreated to the domestic sphere after 1945 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She and two of the Aussies then proceeded to the next floor where guest bedrooms were to be found . |