Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1980s , however , massive decline of jobs and population had led to the concentration of national socio-economic problems in inner cities , and to a very varied set of government programmes to improve the situation ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 2 | This came about partly because of the executive 's inherent advantages , as outlined above , and partly because tradition and crisis seemed to point to the need for a strong executive . |
| 3 | Moreover , their criticism of the arbitrary nature of the bureaucracy and autocracy seemed to correspond to the widespread dissatisfaction among the provincial nobility . |
| 4 | Moderation and reasonableness began to come to the fore . |
| 5 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 6 | The passengers and crew had transferred to the Stratocruiser and resumed their journey more than 3 hours behind schedule . |
| 7 | A five-hour visit by US President George Bush on June 11 , intended , according to US political analysts , to demonstrate to US voters in an election year that his decision to launch the December 1989 military invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] had been vindicated and that peace and democracy had returned to the country , badly backfired when thousands of demonstrators disrupted his public appearances . |
| 8 | Several needed help from lifeboat crews , who say they should have been involved in the safety planning of the event , and man found clinging to the moorings at the Woodside landing stage and was taken to hospital . |
| 9 | Her mother and brother had departed to the kitchen from where Wexford could hear their muted whisperings and the funereally careful clink of cups . |