Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the decision to hold the meeting in North Wales demonstrated the Americans ' commitment to the area . |
| 2 | Mr Clayton drew the inspectors ' attention to a village in Argyll , Scotland , where power lines ran along the main street . |
| 3 | They unanimously held that on its wording it limited the sellers ' liability to the cost of replacing the seed . |
| 4 | They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be . |
| 5 | They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be . |
| 6 | At the apex of the pyramid came the princes ' homage to the king — at least where they took it ( excluding therefore the counts of the far south and of Brittany , and the duke of Normandy after the breach of 1051 ) . |
| 7 | When , on 24 May , in a speech before the House of Commons , Churchill acknowledged the Allies ' debt to Spain for keeping open the Straits of Gibraltar , Franco naturally interpreted this as endorsement of his regime and , therefore , another international victory . |
| 8 | She led a battle to keep local nursery schools open ( and won ) , campaigned for a skateboarding bowl for neighbourhood children ( now up for a community award ) and produced a Parents ' Guide to Oxford Pubs . |
| 9 | McIllvanney arranged the girls ' visits to clients in the Bahamas and guaranteed their safety while they were in the islands . |
| 10 | The General Commissioners upheld the taxpayers ' claims to allowances and the Crown appealed to the High Court . |
| 11 | On the one hand they strengthened the polytechnics ' resistance to the institutional review element in the CNAA 's procedures , but on the other hand they confirmed for the CNAA the value of gaining intelligence about the overall health of the institutions . |
| 12 | But above all , I saw the sabs ' devotion to the cause . |
| 13 | What the report does n't say is whether any Bradford people actually took the dieticians ' message to heart . |
| 14 | Participants also discussed the churches ' commitment to marginalised women and the theme of the 500th anniversary of the colonisation of the Americas . |
| 15 | Edward IV now gave the girls ' wardship to the Stanleys , a family powerful enough to resist the Harringtons ' claims . |
| 16 | Edward IV now gave the girls ' wardship to the Stanleys , a family powerful enough to resist the Harringtons ' claims . |
| 17 | When the lamps were plugged in , the hotel 's own electrical circuits carried the microphones ' output to a receiver and voice-activated recorder in another room down the hall . |
| 18 | Adams had already given notice of intent overnight with his occasional left-arm spin , when Hansie Cronje ( imprudently cutting at his fourth ball ) offered a first Test wicket , and , suitably encouraged , the Jamaican picked up three more in an impressive 21-over spell of slight and turn which restricted the visitors ' lead to 83 . |
| 19 | Mr Smith mocked the Tories ' claim to be the party of low taxation and said people would be ‘ shocked beyond belief ’ at the cynicism of the Government , in extending the scope of VAT and raising national insurance contributions . |