Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 2 | In the case of Wachtel v IRC ( 1970 ) 46 TC 543 , the settlor deposited money with a bank interest-free and the bank lent money to the trust at 1 per cent . |
| 3 | The growth of independent towns in the twelfth century lent force to the revival of public courts on the Carolingian model ; while Mediterranean contacts ensured a warm welcome for the learning of Bolognese Roman lawyers in the early decades of the century . |
| 4 | And so saying , Svend Larsen threw open the doors of the stock-room where stacks of tea-chests , many unopened , bore witness to the success of his operation . |
| 5 | ‘ Wisden ’ itself bore witness to the cult of the amateur . |
| 6 | The stench that the Doctor noted as he approached bore witness to the speed with which decay took place in the tropical climate , and he found that he had to clap a handkerchief over his mouth as he knelt to examine the body . |
| 7 | Joe McCann , secretary of the NDP , said that the meeting bore witness to the failure of the Unionist Party to keep faith with the British traditions it professed to admire . |
| 8 | And at the Leicester Congress in 1931 , an illuminated address , signed by every member of the executive , bore witness to the respect in which he was held by his colleagues and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 9 | The European Commission promised aid to the value of $2,400,000 . |
| 10 | There is an air of prosperity , faded somewhat since the closing of the lead mines that contributed wealth to the community after the discovery of the metallic element strontium . |
| 11 | On May 14-16 a group of donors led by the World Bank promised assistance to the value of US$508,000,000 for 1990-91 , aimed at reducing balance of payments problems under a special programme of assistance for debt-laden low-income sub-Saharan African states . |
| 12 | ‘ The passenger had his head out of the window and shouted abuse to the effect of ‘ I 'll get you this time ’ . ’ |
| 13 | The final report of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth drew attention to the stability in the distribution of income in the post-war period . |
| 14 | There was also an increased emphasis on productivity and better educational standards , which drew attention to the existence of people who could not look after themselves or sustain a normal education . |
| 15 | Even in 1954 , Beresford drew attention to the existence of shrunken villages , where , despite the continued presence of a church , shop , pub , |
| 16 | Following Broca 's ( 1861 , 1865 ) analyses of aphasia in right.handed patients who had sustained lesions of the left frontal lobe , Jackson ( 1868 ) drew attention to the case of a left handed patient who had become aphasic following a presumed right.sided lesion . |
| 17 | The first drew attention to the position of deaf and dumb inmates of Poor Law Institutions and called for an enquiry into numbers involved and the best method of dealing with them . |
| 18 | The findings drew attention to the contrast between the teacher-initiated models of ‘ group work ’ which at the time offered the only practical insights and guidance available in the literature ( e.g. Barnes and Todd 1977 , Tann 1981 , Biott and Clough 1983 , Slavin 1983 , Johnson et al . |
| 19 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 20 | He drew attention to the size of England in terms of population and geography . |
| 21 | I can not answer for other members of the United Nations , but in our meeting last week I certainly drew attention to the necessity for ensuring that the United Nations had the right financial and material aid to complete the tasks that we have set it . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Livingston drew attention to the behaviour of previous Secretaries of State in this regard . |
| 23 | Mr Humphreys also drew attention to the installation of a new magnetic body scanner at the Yarm Road Industrial Estate in Darlington . |
| 24 | The Select Committee drew attention to the under-reporting of accidents in the oil industry . |
| 25 | Under Resolution 45/149 of Dec. 18 the Assembly unanimously condemned the involvement of children in the use , production and distribution of illicit drugs and drew attention to the lack of financial resources to combat drug abuse worldwide . |
| 26 | His memorandum , delivered on 9 January 1939 , repeated previous arguments and drew attention to the weakness of the Labour League of Youth and the difficulty of gaining a majority at the next General Election . |
| 27 | Beattie herself drew attention to the contribution of women sculptors such as Gwendolen Williams , Ellen Mary Rope and Ruby Levick , particularly in the production of statuettes , an art form crucial to the aesthetic development of the New Sculpture . |
| 28 | Abrams ( Bulmer , 1986 ) drew attention to the complexity of the concept ; many who are perceived as altruistic will themselves acknowledge the profound satisfaction which they derive from their supposedly selfless activities but find it difficult to put this into words . |
| 29 | In its ruling , however , the IWT also drew attention to the issue of energy use per se : " ( Environmental ) procedures and the generation of ever more information on impacts do not help avoid the essential issue that industrialized countries should reduce their wasteful energy consumption , rather than enlarging the capacity to create energy " . |
| 30 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the megalomania of early divine kingships without , at the time , seeing its relation to the depressive aspects of the early agriculture on which these institutions were based.ll Nevertheless , it is now clear , as I hope to show , that the two opposite types of symptom do in fact appear in connection with the coming of agriculture and , which is more to the point for our present concerns , that this is a phenomenon not without relevance to the understanding of the modern world . |