Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | It is this evidence that led West to the cautious conclusion that ‘ it is reasonable to assume that in the nineteenth century education played some part in economic growth . ’ |
| 3 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 4 | And we must not discount those who became converts to the new religion , whether on account of the superiority of its miracles — especially its apparently superior powers of healing — or of its doctrine or the example of those who taught it . |
| 5 | In explaining the sequence of thought which led Keynes to the General Theory , Dr Clarke has taken full advantage of recently discovered sources , including students ' notes of Keynes 's lectures at Cambridge . |
| 6 | Many of Innocent 's decretals concerned the administration of this system and some of the clauses of the Fourth Lateran Council bore witness to the growing precision and influence of these courts . |
| 7 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 8 | In a series of studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s , Robinson and Robinson ( e.g. , 1983 ) drew attention to the critical connection between the message and the listener 's perception of it . |
| 9 | The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) on March 15 drew attention to the critical food supply situation in the Sudan , the Horn of Africa , Angola and Liberia . |
| 10 | He took his argument further than that based on the existence of the pluralist society whether of his day or ours , and drew attention to the crucial question of truth-claims which can not be publicly demonstrated in such a way that reasonable people may not disagree . |
| 11 | Indeed , one of the first die links ever published drew attention to the surprising use of the same die on two coins which had been thought to be of different mints . |
| 12 | Beryl Smith again drew attention to the strenuous time our trainers have , called upon as they are to travel so far and having to tackle what seems to be a non-stop training programme . |
| 13 | In bringing the discussion to a conclusion , the Chair drew attention to the following resolution which had been prepared by the organising committee prior to the conference and circulated to all participants on registration ( see Appendix 3 for full text ) : |
| 14 | In 1966 , in her study of Wheldrake , outside York , she drew attention to the regular nature of the village . |
| 15 | Much of this adverse criticism also drew attention to the usual association of the allowance system with some form of " make-work " scheme . |
| 16 | In 1951 Arkell drew attention to the close correspondence between surface structures and gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies , and postulated rejuvenation of Variscan thrusts to explain Tertiary structures ( Falcon and Tarrant 1951 ) . |
| 17 | In 1976 Michael Bate now working at Cambridge University drew attention to the embryonic development of nerve pathways linking these ganglia with the budding limbs . |
| 18 | H. Packer drew attention to the factual presumption of guilt operating in the criminal process : |
| 19 | A report on food labelling and advertising published by the Food Advisory Committee in 1990 drew attention to the confusing nature of this part of the legislation . |
| 20 | Seven years later Agate reported on the opening of a new cinema of ‘ almost Babylonish magnificence ’ in the London suburb of Brixton , and he drew attention to the running fountain with its goldfish , the marble stairs , the thick carpets , the cushioned seats , the noble organ , and the fact that a full orchestra was to be used . |
| 21 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the undoubted paranoia of the fanatical adherent of solar monotheism in ancient Egypt , the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( alias Amenhotep IV ) , but at that time I was unable to demonstrate how such paranoid tendencies were related to the evolution of cultivating societies . |
| 22 | He drew attention to the three spelling mistakes Leonard manages to include in so short a piece , marked by ( ! ) , and at the points we enumerate offers the following marginal comments : 1 . ) |
| 23 | When Emmeline Pankhurst was tried at the Old Bailey in April she drew attention to the white slavery issue in her speech from the dock . |
| 24 | They were ugly , they hurt her , they drew attention to the ever-increasing size of her feet . |
| 25 | In the first edition of this book , we drew attention to the growing influence of the Manpower Services Commission , through its committee for Wales , over the provision of vocational training in the Principality including the initiation of such developments as the establishment of workshops like those in Clwyd , operating under the aegis of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education . |
| 26 | More particularly , the Finniston Report in 1980 drew attention to the heavy emphasis on manufacturing in German engineering curricula in contrast with the relatively ‘ academic ’ orientation of British engineering education . |
| 27 | On 6 December Sawt al-Kuwait drew attention to the continuing eclipse of the Iran-Iraq war hero Lieutenant-General Maher Abd al-Rashid ; last heard of under house arrest in 1988 , his fate was unknown in 1990 . |
| 28 | At this the Netherlands government drew attention to the past work and impending revival of the Hague Conference . |
| 29 | And it is significant that , in the Association for Science Education , an introductory report ( Billings 1989 ) drew attention to the particular importance , in the framework of new vocational qualifications , of the assessment of prior learning , an importance further underlined by Slusarchuk & Nicholl ( 1990:112 ) . |
| 30 | The success in the 1970s of a few Asian ‘ Newly Industrialising Countries ’ ( NICs ) at making rapid growth in manufactured exports the key to rapid output growth , drew attention to the potential contribution of a ‘ good ’ external strategy . |