Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In establishing their ancestry , little reference is ever made to the surrealists , who obviously contributed a great deal to the contestation of realism — this seems to arise mainly from a dislike of the practice of automatic writing . |
| 2 | Most humiliating of all when he did intervene on the record he only contributed a further nuance to the policy confusion under way . |
| 3 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 4 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 5 | What intrigued me most , however , was the arrangement of four dangling neck-ties , like swaying cobras , which only needed a squatting snakecharmer to really hypnotise . |
| 6 | It created no new right of property or chose in action : it merely enabled a pre-existing right to be enforced . |
| 7 | In an attempt to remove the influence of the janissaries from Istanbul , where they naturally formed a powerful opposition to his reforms , Mahmud tried to buy them off by offering them a virtually free hand in garrisoning the remote provinces of the empire . |
| 8 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 9 | On Saturday morning I was in such a hurry that I only said a quick goodbye to my family , before setting out to walk the few miles into town for the London coach . |
| 10 | Woosnam only had an eight iron to the green but with a target just 49 feet wide , the difficulty lay in keeping the ball on the green . |
| 11 | Noddy began pursuing everything on four wheels , or two , with such enthusiasm that he soon became a familiar sight to the farmers who made their living along the lane . |
| 12 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 13 | ‘ I just took an instant shine to him . |
| 14 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 15 | Even Fleury , who was perfectly conscious of the force of McNab 's arguments , nevertheless gave a visceral assent to those of Dr Dunstaple . |
| 16 | Oliver Napier of the Alliance party thereupon wrote an open letter to the people of the Republic calling their attention to the same matters . |
| 17 | Snooker was his hobby , and he usually made a weekly visit to a snooker club nearby , with his next-door neighbour , Bill Austin . |
| 18 | The large German presence in Iran at once became a hostile force to the Russians as well as to the British . |
| 19 | IAN WOOSNAM yesterday hammered a seven-birdie warning to America 's dream team in the Philip Morris World Cup here yesterday . |
| 20 | Family and friends yesterday paid a poignant tribute to the two at the murder scene . |
| 21 | TOURISM officials yesterday paid a morale-boosting visit to hoteliers in flood-hit Llandudno yesterday and pledged that they would play their part in helping the town 's recovery . |
| 22 | He once began a memorable contribution to a debate on the 1981 riots in Brixton with the words , ‘ My Lords , I think I am the only member who has spoken today who has had agricultural estates in Jamaica . ’ |
| 23 | NEWCASTLE United yesterday sent a written offer to Celtic for Roy Aitken reportedly so low that it is likely to be returned to St James ' Park unopened . |
| 24 | His positive coaching methods pulled together the warring provincial factions and his gentle but firm weeding-out resulted in Evans — who yesterday took an accidental blow to the head in training but will play today — becoming captain . |
| 25 | He usually chose a different person to be ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ each year . |
| 26 | Farmers always gave a special supper to the sheep shearers when they had finished their work . |
| 27 | There was a long legacy of poor relationships between managers and clinicians , district and units , which hardly facilitated a corporate approach to the reforms . |
| 28 | First , like Dearlove , it still seems to exaggerate the localness of local politics and the extent to which they ever presented a substantial obstacle to the programmes of the centre . |
| 29 | AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership . |
| 30 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |