Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROAD sought to provide a credible alternative to the Solidarity Centre Alliance political grouping , which had been established in May [ ibid. ] and advocated that the Solidarity trade union chairman Lech Walesa should be appointed by parliament as President . |
| 2 | Until then , police practice involved turning a blind eye to minor breaches of public decency rather than embarking on lengthy prosecutions . |
| 3 | Dost accused the ‘ imperialists ’ of concocting ‘ various ‘ plans ’ with respect to Afghanistan , such as its ‘ neutralisation ’ ’ , and promised to administer a firm counter-blow to ‘ this outside interference ’ . |
| 4 | Ronni folded her arms across her chest and tried to fix a disapproving scowl to her face . |
| 5 | This helped to deal a crippling blow to the preformationist theory , which argued that all parts of a living organism are already formed in miniature in the seed or egg from which it comes . |
| 6 | In the light of the excessive technicality seen here , it is little wonder that Lord Wilberforce in Reardon Smith Line Ltd , and the House of Lords in Ashington Piggeries proposed giving a narrower scope to s13 , confining it to matters of identification . |
| 7 | A puffed-up snowflake , face averted , tried to offer a woolly bear to Stephanie to give to Mary . |
| 8 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 9 | Initially these are single-point characters , each designed to make a particular contribution to the course of the story , but during the narrative the lads , all around seventeen or eighteen , act with a degree of independence which lends a new depth to the book . |
| 10 | The weird notion that she might be in danger of actually becoming one day as perfect as she seemed added a ghastly charm to her reflections , as she continued to envisage various methods of killing Jack . |
| 11 | You then followed me to the ticket reservation counter , chatted up the girl afterwards , found I 'd booked a Business-Class seat to Brussels , did the same yourself and waited outside the final departure lounge until you saw me boarding . ’ |
| 12 | Dreams seemed to provide a royal road to the understanding of the patients ' subconscious . |
| 13 | In all three areas the mammals that happened to be around at the start fanned out in evolution , and produced a specialist for each trade which , in many cases , came to bear a remarkable resemblance to the corresponding specialist in the other two areas . |
| 14 | ‘ Stella said you 'd made a huge difference to the place . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not what I hold with , nor yet what I 'm accustomed to , ’ the matron had said virtuously , as she 'd brought a laden tray to the best spare bedchamber in the morning , ‘ but I 'm an honest woman , and I do n't cheat nobody , be they never so undeserving ! |
| 16 | Cos they 'd brought a little dog to be walked . |
| 17 | The authorities seemed to adopt a dual approach to the anniversary ; on the one hand they launched a massive security operation in the city and detained a number of potential trouble makers , but on the other hand they attempted to portray an image of leniency by releasing groups of pro-democracy activists who had been arrested in 1989 . |
| 18 | The recapitulation theory was seductive because it seemed to offer a powerful guide to the reconstruction of those steps in the history of life hidden by gaps in the fossil record . |
| 19 | The demand management policies by which it was to be achieved seemed to offer a progressive alternative to socialism by providing the economic background which would allow measures of social betterment to be carried out without socialist control of the economy . |
| 20 | However , a phone call from Mrs Meadows seemed to offer a temporary solution to their problem . |
| 21 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
| 22 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 23 | Support for the aged warrior extended as far north as Angouleme and seemed to present a serious threat to Frankish rule in Aquitaine . |
| 24 | 3 As political science developed in the fifties , leading British political scientists came to display a keen sensitivity to intellectual developments in America at the same time as American political scientists were eager to come over to study British politics . |
| 25 | She had n't mentioned that she 'd paid a previous visit to the house . |
| 26 | It seemed to bring a coppery taste to her mouth . |
| 27 | Singly and in groups , in a variety of motorised transport , ranging from thirty-ton sixteen wheelers to private cars , they were converging on their Operations HQ — which just happened to bear a remarkable resemblance to the County Sheriff 's office in Rockford ! |
| 28 | Thus Van Valen ( 1973 ) applied the survivorship curve technique of population biologists to the study of extinction rates for numerous fossil taxa , and claimed to demonstrate a general approximation to linearity in his curves , which are cumulative frequency distributions of taxonomic durations with logarithmic ordinates . |
| 29 | The relatively cheap and rapid transportation it provided and the elasticity of capacity the companies boasted gave a powerful boost to the mass holiday-making industry . |
| 30 | It was , indeed , only when their conversation seemed to be moving towards a close , with Derek none the wiser about why it had taken place , that Golding began to apply a steely edge to his questions . |