Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] of " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | They were gaudy and sexually suggestive and each tailored to the individual characteristics of the woman to be wed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The par-or-better rounds on Friday rose to the new heights of 54 and the average was further improved to 71.69 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I would rather have an RSPCA worker who retained the capacity to weep than one hardened to the darker necessities of the job . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As Wesley had done , and as Rational Dissenters very frequently did , they alluded to the natural rights of all men . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Congregationalism appealed to the better-off sections of industrial society . |
| 17 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 18 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 19 | What happened to the 12 days of Christmas ? |
| 20 | Toby first — and I turned to the back pages of the Daily News . |
| 21 | Ritually I turned to the back pages of the Daily News to see a picture of a grinning Brian Harley holding the habitual poster-sized cheque beside the equally cheerful sponsor . |
| 22 | It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . |
| 23 | One possibility extended Paley 's version of the argument from design to include a whole sequence of creations , each adapted to the prevailing conditions of the time . |
| 24 | Every sockless wonder in town partied to the lush tones of Trevor Horn 's ‘ Lexicon of Love ’ , and Morrissey found a purpose and humanity in Manchester 's ideal packed but far from illustrious Secret Seven ( a kind of heavy Dollar formed from the ashes of The Distractions and riding on a wave of hype ) . |
| 25 | The classrooms rang to the repetitive chants of ‘ Long Live Chairman Mao ’ and the lifeless , monotonous verses of ‘ Without the Party there would be no New China ’ as Zeng and his classmates were forced to write and rewrite constant self-criticisms without ever really understanding them . |
| 26 | Racial theories fared best in policy areas already sensitized to the new conceptions of bodily health — motherhood , insanity and poverty , as well as birth-control and venereal disease . |
| 27 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
| 28 | An ancient staircase led to the upper floors of the building , and beyond that , the long hall opened into a large , well-lit room . |
| 29 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 30 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |