Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 2 | Those troubles — referred to as the ‘ Irish Rebellion ’ — were overcome only by violent methods used by the ‘ Black and Tans ’ , plus some restless ex-soldiers , known as the ‘ Auxiliaries ’ , and when the facts of those violent methods became known to the British public , they were declared unacceptable — despite the outrages which Sinn Fein had instituted in London and the bombings in Belfast . |
| 3 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 4 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 5 | These offers were meant to demonstrate that the two younger brothers had gone to the very limit of reasonable concessions , and hence would bear no guilt for the casualties of battle . |
| 6 | Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month . |
| 7 | Mechale said that civil conflict , drought and seed shortages had contributed to the poor harvests in 1991 . |
| 8 | Within an hour of the Syrian air attack , Aoun , his family and high-ranking supporters had fled to the French embassy . |
| 9 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 10 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 11 | Earlier , weeping parents had rushed to the popular beauty spot at Holme Hall , Chesterfield , Derbys , near where the boys lived . |
| 12 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 13 | Six of the engineers had swum to the northern bank where they were fastening a rope to a great elm tree . |
| 14 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 15 | Although most state governments had switched to the new award as a means of recognizing public service , Queensland and Tasmania had continued to recommend Australians for knighthoods and lower awards . |
| 16 | Banks had appealed to the Supreme Court against the ruling [ see p. 38726 ] . |
| 17 | The tradition whereby legislators tended to defect to the governing party following an election , however , meant that such assessments were liable to frequent change . |
| 18 | In a sense , then , little had changed , as the managers had to resort to the old method of cajoling the workforce to extract maximum effort . |
| 19 | Before the war , Unionists had pointed to the huge disparity between the smallest and largest seats ( in 1910 Kilkenny had an electorate of a few hundred and Romford an electorate of over 50,000 ) , and had noted that Unionist constituencies were on average larger than Liberal constituencies , far larger than those of Nationalists in Ireland . |
| 20 | She claimed mortgage repossessions had added to the homeless spiral and contributed to a 40pc increase in Langbaurgh borough in the last 12 months . |
| 21 | If the parents and their witnesses had to travel to the Scottish mainland , this would involve them not only in time away they could n't spare , but also travelling and accommodation expenses . |
| 22 | Scottish scholars stopped going to the English universities ; the veneer of English influence on Scottish law and judicial practice was torn away . |
| 23 | The strike should be a firm , fast , straight-back-over-the-shoulder action , with your reflexes alerted to respond to the sudden resistance you feel when you hit a big bream . |
| 24 | Review the requirement for computer support of outposted files as an added value factor once a department network had been installed ( Note : this was due to take place after the departments had moved to the new accommodation ) . |
| 25 | Only his arms had reached to the top strands . |
| 26 | In the First World War radicals had looked to the emerging superpowers to enable democratic movements to set Europe to rights — whether by the enforcement of a Pax Americana , or by the boost given by the Russian Revolution to the campaign for a negotiated peace . |
| 27 | If these two states had agreed to the Grand Design , it may well have succeeded . |
| 28 | The women avoided talking to the Chief Steward , or among themselves , about the detail of the job . |
| 29 | Compensation for the cost of rebuilding damaged and destroyed property is only released when work begins , which explains the relatively small amounts paid compared to the estimated cost of damage . |
| 30 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |