Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 2 | It is a welcome return from the golfing wilderness for the former Durham County champion who carried hopes of a highly successful professional career when he moved to the paid ranks after gaining international honours some five years ago . |
| 3 | A cost cutting programme also contributed to the better figures at the company . |
| 4 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 5 | They were gaudy and sexually suggestive and each tailored to the individual characteristics of the woman to be wed . |
| 6 | By comparison with the attention devoted to the economic influences upon politics there has been relatively little sociological analysis of the political consequences of war , in spite of its manifest importance in the development of societies . |
| 7 | The second section , devoted to the political powers of the period , opens with the splendours of the imperial court : precious manuscripts and goldsmiths ' work , and models of royal residences and churches . |
| 8 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |
| 9 | To my surprise , the space devoted to the kinetic sculptures by David Medalla had a lively and progressive atmosphere . |
| 10 | The various modifications which these organs undergo are of considerable taxonomic importance and are dealt with in the chapters devoted to the different orders of insects . |
| 11 | The par-or-better rounds on Friday rose to the new heights of 54 and the average was further improved to 71.69 . |
| 12 | It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent . |
| 13 | He referred to the frequent complaints from industry that new recruits from school were ill-equipped with basic skills . |
| 14 | He referred to the major classes by number , the minor ones by letter . |
| 15 | We work in the Health arena , you yourself have had considerable experience , and you referred to the changing roles between public and private agencies , and you mentioned trusts and so on in the health arena , I just wondered whether you 'd like to explore with us a little , your own personal thinking about the nature of these changing roles , and perhaps a little bit of crystal ball gazing ahead , |
| 16 | Pearson J. referred to the various items in dispute , allowed some and disallowed others . |
| 17 | Churkin referred to the forthcoming elections in Estonia [ see this page ] for which the non-Estonian population was disenfranchised . |
| 18 | They also referred to the different factions in control in different parts of the country and said : ‘ The general situation in Somalia continues to be insecure and confused . ’ |
| 19 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton referred to the 1,000 members of the Prison Service Union , which is seeking recognition from the Home Office . |
| 20 | While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it . |
| 21 | ( ’ There were people , too , who added to the real perils by inventing fictitious dangers . ’ ) |
| 22 | The fight over appointments became more and more bitter and added to the all-engulfing problems of Christine Jackson 's recruiting operation , with its Equal Opportunities commitments . |
| 23 | McRae roared to the fastest times on five of yesterday 's 10 timed stages through the rain-lashed Welsh forests . |
| 24 | I would rather have an RSPCA worker who retained the capacity to weep than one hardened to the darker necessities of the job . |
| 25 | THERE was not another house to be seen from the Boggle Hole hostel on the North Yorkshire coast , as we woke to the gentle sounds of the warden reciting Buddhist mantras , and waves lapping the sands . |
| 26 | As Wesley had done , and as Rational Dissenters very frequently did , they alluded to the natural rights of all men . |
| 27 | The Presidents also appealed to the developed countries for more aid . |
| 28 | Few books can have captured so powerfully and quickly the imagination and appealed to the religious yearnings of a gullible public than Chariots of the Gods and its successors . |
| 29 | The idea of ‘ Napoleonism ’ , that is , the concept of the Emperor as a phenomenon of history and therefore politically dead , was one which appealed to the conservative strata of French society , which were glad to remember the glory the Emperor had given to France but had no wish to see him re-embodied . |
| 30 | Congregationalism appealed to the better-off sections of industrial society . |