Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auguste failed to see the hidden tensions and passions behind these simple manoeuvres ; to him it only signified that the banquet had acquired a reality . |
| 2 | In addition to regulating the lives of the Christian subjects of the Merovingian kings — and also to circumscribing the activities of the Jews , the one recognized religious minority in the kingdom — the bishops at least tried to monopolize the local centres and objects of devotion , which might have presented a focus of religious power outside their control . |
| 3 | The preview evening and following three days enabled many people to come and appreciate the variety of gifts and talents which helped to enhance the natural beauty and lines of the Cathedral . |
| 4 | He lay back , closing his eyes , and tried to re-constitute the extraordinary image and speech of his father . |
| 5 | He promised to demystify the all-powerful presidency and make it more accountable to congress and the voter . |
| 6 | The Impressionist painters caught the contagion , and the new race of photographers tried to seize the fleeting moment and make it stay . |
| 7 | Lindsey tried to forget the tanned features and dark hair , the arrogant set of jaw . |
| 8 | He is a prolific inventor who helped to start the environmental revolution and , as a result of work undertaken for NASA , studied the conditions necessary for the continued existence of life and found that the Earth constituted a self-regulatory system whereby each of the many variable factors , such as temperature and the composition of air , sea and soil , had been kept within the narrow limits necessary for life to survive for the entire history of the planet . |
| 9 | They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District . |
| 10 | He tried to ignore the murmured whispers and laughter as he made his way through the streets across London Bridge and back into Southwark . |
| 11 | Officials sought to simplify the judicial process and clarify the criminal law . |
| 12 | No one seemed to like the dry enervating and dusty climate of the Hollywood hills . |
| 13 | With its headbanging title , your issue on the Politics of Greed ( NI 188 ) seemed to promise the usual hellfire and damnation about the iniquities of Thatcher , Reagan and Co . |
| 14 | The eyes smouldered for a moment at the impertinence , then he seemed to see the funny side and chuckled hoarsely . |
| 15 | But she seemed to accept the Glaswegian accent and his story of having left Scotland for London in his teens . |
| 16 | In preliminary studies , we have found that in primary rat glial and neuronal cells that were transfected with human bcl-2 , the anti-Bcl-2 antibody also seemed to stain the nuclear envelope and ER ( M.D.J. and J. Voyvodic , unpublished data ) . |
| 17 | Pietro had finally agreed to Zen 's presence , on condition that there was no contact until the pay-off actually began , so during the intervening forty-eight hours he had had nothing to do with the case beyond having the ransom money photographed to record the serial numbers and finalizing the arrangements for collecting Ruggiero when he was released . |
| 18 | . It is certainly true that as men came to understand the natural world and thus to control it , they began to banish God from it . |
| 19 | ‘ I came to hate the Tech-Green philosophy and did n't want to live out an expanded life up there somewhere , looking down on the unfortunates left on Earth . |
| 20 | One explicit guiding principle of papal teaching which came to influence the Irish constitution and successive debates culminating in the church — state imbroglio of 1951 , dealt with below , was that of ‘ subsidiarity ’ : that no ‘ secondary ’ institution such as the state should take on duties which ‘ primary ’ and ‘ intermediate ’ ones , such as the family , could assume . |
| 21 | Apart for his incongruously white hair , Amaldi seemed to have the mental lucidity and expected energy of a man half his age . |
| 22 | It is appropriate to begin with the forms of propaganda adopted to convey the particular arguments and the broader ideological perspectives analysed in the last chapter . |
| 23 | And that was how I came to join the Western Mail and stayed from 1958 to 61 , during which time the ownership changed from Kemsleys to Thomsons . |
| 24 | The silver denarius was not established on a permanent footing until the Second Pubic War ( fig.39 : c , d ) , and gold only came to dominate the imperial coinage and advertise the power and majesty of Rome with the extension of the Empire ( fig.39 : e , f ) . |
| 25 | The marsupials came to dominate the Australian story and the placentals the Old World , while the two groups played important roles alongside each other in South America . |
| 26 | But the game failed to excite the Russian elite and was eventually banned by the Tsars as a rowdy pastime . |
| 27 | Effectively , the legislature agreed to forego the extended debate and process of negotiation over appropriations that normally occurred . |
| 28 | As such , they are cost-effective , since their construction can be tailor made to fit the relevant population and its geographical distribution , the budget available ( etc ) . |
| 29 | Their heads lowered to avoid the outstretched hand and pale features of a thin leather clad figure hunched over in a shop doorway . |
| 30 | And Shirley happened to come the next day and I about it . |