Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3–11–1898 The Moderator read the following extract minute of Presbytery ; " The presbytery took up the report of the committee on union with the United Presbyterian Church as sent down by last General Assembly , and as Instructed by the Assembly , agreed to transmit the said report to the Kirk Session within their bounds for their information . " |
| 2 | BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month . |
| 3 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 4 | The 1960s was a period when greater opportunities were open to women and the ‘ sexual revolution ’ , rather than being liberating , helped to diffuse the potential threat to male power . |
| 5 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
| 6 | Biddy tried to explain the good news to my sister , but the poor woman could not understand . |
| 7 | The American boy apologized haltingly in French as he knelt to return the shivering pet to her , but once the animal was safely in her arms again she turned and fled shyly back to her father 's side without speaking . |
| 8 | As the local group leader approached to attach the symbolic necktie to her shirt at the enrolment ceremony , Sibylle whispered to her : ‘ But Annemarie , I do n't like Hitler . ’ |
| 9 | The two sequences testify to the importance which a monastic community attached to its corporate ideal , and the steps by which a final and fatal resort to forgery came to appear the only path to a just solution . |
| 10 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 11 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 12 | It was odd , but I had no feeling of shyness or modesty in front of John ; he never seemed to pay the slightest attention to how undressed I was . |
| 13 | Yet of all the leaders of European Social Democracy , Lenin came to show the greatest sensitivity to the issues associated with the oppression of national minorities , and to the need for dominant nationalities to demonstrate their rejection of this oppression . |
| 14 | He then turned to consider the historic background to the relationship . |
| 15 | This transformation came about as companies expanded to take advantage of mass production methods and associated economies of scale and integration , and also as they strove to limit the competitive forces to which they were subject . |
| 16 | He began to apply the cooling foliage to her skin , turning the leaves back and forth as they took on her body heat . |
| 17 | At a steady walk the regiment began to cover the 400 yards to the wood . |
| 18 | Hoping as always to avoid trouble , the Goldsmiths decided to require the new Schoolmaster to be examined before being appointed ; this was duly done , and Joseph Whittle , a graduate of Brasenose College , Oxford , took up his position with effect from 28th September . |
| 19 | He felt sure he could sweet-talk Antonio and get the 25 per cent equity he needed to put the new deal to bed . |
| 20 | Quickly realising that it was an impossibility to tackle the rescue as he had hoped , he decided to fasten the makeshift leash to Daisy 's collar . |
| 21 | For the time being , Mungo decided to keep the real answer to himself . |
| 22 | As members will have seen from the local press , the committee decided to postpone the proposed trip to Llangollen on 13th July . |
| 23 | Graham reluctantly pushed one of the cassettes into the system , waved the cigarette smoke irritably from his face , then turned his attention to the New York skyline and started to name the numerous skyscrapers to himself in an attempt to pass the time . |
| 24 | The Hungarians decided to take the shortest line to the German wash , totally ignoring the existence of most of the rest of the field who lay between them . |
| 25 | As eighth reserve for the tournament the chances were slim , but he decided to make the long journey to Crooked Stick , Indiana , on the off-chance . |
| 26 | The union was unsuccessful in gaining recognition : ‘ The Ludlow war , one of the more tragic episodes in labor 's history , failed to dissolve the adamantine opposition to unionism , which had become a fixed and immovable article of faith among many of the great industries of the United States ’ ( Taft and Ross , 1969:256 ) . |
| 27 | The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge . |
| 28 | Firms still choose the quantity of labour demanded to equate the gross wage to the marginal value product of labour . |
| 29 | North said he would have offered the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland or a ride on the space shuttle ; George Cave , the interpreter , offered to send the Second Channel to Miami Beach . |
| 30 | The way Pomiane chose to convey the necessary quantity to his listeners — he must have been a compelling radio talker — and later to his readers was in terms of " a bunch as large as a bunch of violets " . |