Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blacks had just seen a film , ‘ Mississippi Burning ’ , in which Klansmen beat a black child to death . |
| 2 | Lee Evans , the controversial black Olympic sprinter , contributed a further element to Kane 's model when he added : ‘ Then , on the plantations , a strong Blackman was mated with a strong Blackwoman . |
| 3 | Hunt 's laconic expertise provided a perfect counterpoint to Walker 's high-octane delivery . |
| 4 | Griffith-Boscawen introduced in 1912 a Bill to make improvement grants for rural housing , a proposal that provided a Unionist response to Lloyd George 's Land Campaign . |
| 5 | Although the bishopric of Nin was abolished and the Latin rite eventually triumphed in Croatia , Grgur Ninski 's assertion of the individuality of the Croat nation provided a spiritual sanction to Tomislav 's claims to kingship . |
| 6 | By rejecting the excessive ‘ form ’ of the medieval church , the Reformation provided a strong impetus to liberty . |
| 7 | The growth of multinational corporations provided a second spur to Eurocurrency business . |
| 8 | Willis 's treatise provided a powerful corrective to Hewart 's book . |
| 9 | Dick Whittaker , deputy secretary of the JMB , said that there were now calculators available which , for example , offered computerised foreign language dictionaries and others which provided a complete guide to fossil groups in palaeontology . |
| 10 | This study will examine the extent to which this capital-goods sector provided a major stimulus to invention and innovation in the century after 1780 . |
| 11 | But topping the event , which drew a large crowd to Banbury Stockyard , were cattle from noted breeders J Close and Sons that sold to 1800gns . |
| 12 | The Royal Academy of Arts , for example , maintained a slavish loyalty to portraiture , landscapes and the inspiration of literature , while just across the English Channel the art world was alive with one ‘ ism ’ after another — Impressionism , Fauvism , Cubism , Surrealism . |
| 13 | Goldwyn considered himself physically unappealing and Frances retained a lifelong devotion to George Cukor , who was homosexual . |
| 14 | As suggested in the previous chapter , only a few agreed with Churchill and with Eden , after his departure from the National government , that fascism posed a major threat to Britain . |
| 15 | Where the new principles of bodily health posed a direct challenge to environmentalism , as in the eugenics movement , they were opposed by the majority of medics . |
| 16 | He posed a mute question to Jacob who nodded . |
| 17 | ‘ At the moment , I think it would suit George just fine if you caught a slow boat to Yokohama . |
| 18 | Jane Russell bore a striking resemblance to Sweetheart . |
| 19 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 20 | The woman bore a disconcerting resemblance to Mrs Pascoe . |
| 21 | A Radio 5 spokesperson said : ‘ The internal report made a number of suggestions for restructuring network radio and only one of them involved a major change to Radio 5 . |
| 22 | Kintsch and Bates used a similar procedure to Sachs ( 1967 ) ( see section 7.2.3 ) , asking the students to distinguish between original sentences and paraphrases . |
| 23 | The Geneva meeting used a clinical approach to health policy development which focuses on individual patients and their available treatment options , whereas the Copenhagen meeting used a public health approach which strives for the best mix of curative and preventive health services , given the existing resources , to maximise the health status of a population . |
| 24 | In particular , it was contrary to articles 7 , 52 and 221 in as much as it created a complete barrier to freedom of establishment in the United Kingdom for individuals as owners and operators of fishing vessels and as directors and shareholders of companies owning or operating such vessels . |
| 25 | I am sure I spotted Nico Ladenis preparing some divine demi-glace and Bohringer , the head chef , bore an uncanny resemblance to Michel Guerard , one of France 's three-star Michelin men . |
| 26 | One of the inn 's habitués , a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer , bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson . |
| 27 | Tajik Prime Minister Akbar Mirzoyev headed an unofficial delegation to Kabul on July 14 to seek help in curbing the arms supply to Tajikistan from mojaheddin fighters . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've found out Tweed caught an early flight to Brussels . |
| 29 | Joxer Daly ( Paul Magee ) contributed an amusing foil to Boyle and both these actors were given well-deserved rounds of applause . |
| 30 | A particularly controversial assignment , which added a new dimension to headhunting and was a foretaste of things to come , was the recruitment of Thomas Barrow from Exxon to Kennecott in 1978 . |