Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be regarded as basic guidelines and adapted to the many possible variables , such as type of employment , level of responsibility , age/experience of the candidates . |
| 2 | Forty of the escapees were killed by local hunters but the remainder appear to have survived by hiding in inaccessible rocky areas and adapted to the local terrain , which is similar to their natural habitat in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 3 | They will be reviewed by the regional associations and submitted to the Central Committee at its next meeting ( 26 June to 2 July 1992 ) . |
| 4 | ( The election rules required soundings to be taken among constituency associations and reported to the 1922 Committee . |
| 5 | BL came to rely on large cash hand-outs and subsidies , and eventually had to be cut down into its constituent elements and returned to the private sector . |
| 6 | In 1941 a bomb fell on the College and it was thought to be the end of Halling Man but the bones were found with the relative animal bones and sent to the British Museum ( Natural History ) . |
| 7 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 8 | Following the creation of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , several outstanding houses have been saved with their contents and handed to the National Trust . |
| 9 | This latter option appears to have some attraction for Fforde , for in his conclusion he seems to agree with the Thatcherite premise that pre-1979 Conservatives , by accommodating themselves to collectivist reforms rather than reversing them , abandoned their principles and surrendered to the so-called ‘ ratchet ’ effect of creeping socialism . |
| 10 | This policy halted the previously continuous growth of local authority tenancies and contributed to the overall increase in owner occupancy . |
| 11 | But the Tallentires were farmers and used to the physical hardships that go hand-in-hand with life on the land . |
| 12 | As soon as she saw him look down , she made a sideways dive between a couple of stalls and crossed to the opposite side of the street . |
| 13 | For a quiet life , I should now head straight to the welcoming arms and biscuit tin of Ms Topaz , to be lectured on the error of my ways and dispatched to the new homogenised spook pool for retraining . |
| 14 | In all cases the broken ore was allowed to fall about the girls ' feet from where it was shovelled by the younger boys and girls and wheeled to the respective piles or hoppers , At all stages waste was thrown aside ready for tramming or barrowing to the spoil heaps . |
| 15 | These are delipidated in peripheral tissues principally by the action of lipoprotein lipase which is secreted by adipose and muscle tissues and attached to the capillary endothelium . |
| 16 | De Montfort was killed , his body hacked to bits and fed to the royal dogs . |
| 17 | Early last month , a Russian war veteran took matters into his own hands and delivered to the German embassy in Moscow a cache of drawings , prints and paintings , among which , according to the German Foreign Office , is a Durer . |
| 18 | Then they quietly washed and dried their own hands and returned to the general room . |
| 19 | Later that evening , President Roh 's brother-in-law , Kim Bok Dong , was abducted from his car by police and taken to the presidential Blue House for a meeting with Roh and other family members . |
| 20 | The results of the most recent Customer Survey show that our customers have noticed a marked improvement in Noble Metal 's performance in relation to their requirements and compared to the best competitors ! |
| 21 | And they had eyes , bright and pricking eyes that shredded her clothes and burrowed to the soft underwear she had purchased in the Centrum store on Magdeburg 's Karl-Marx-Strasse . |
| 22 | Some bony fish have emulated the cartilaginous skates and rays and taken to the bottom-living life , abandoning the swim-bladder that , ancestrally , was the source of their success . |
| 23 | Once it had burned through the clinker was broken out , loaded into barrows or carts and taken to the grinding mills to be ground into a fine powder . |