Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The herdsman beat a tactful retreat to the end of the cowshed and then I took the opportunity to say what I thought . |
| 2 | In 1920 it routed a Polish army to the suburbs of Warsaw and at the end of the following year launched an invasion of the Menshevik Republic of Georgia after its government had quelled an internal Bolshevik uprising . |
| 3 | In establishing their ancestry , little reference is ever made to the surrealists , who obviously contributed a great deal to the contestation of realism — this seems to arise mainly from a dislike of the practice of automatic writing . |
| 4 | He contributed a great deal to the development of Welsh drama with both original plays and translations , while his book on Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom ( 1930 , revised edn. 1979 ) was the fruit of a lifelong study of the subject . |
| 5 | Every Sunday I also contributed a religious meditation to the New Times of Burma under the heading ‘ Thought for Today ’ , following on a Buddhist meditation for the preceding day . |
| 6 | Most humiliating of all when he did intervene on the record he only contributed a further nuance to the policy confusion under way . |
| 7 | New artists Youssou N'dour and Tracy Chapman contributed a vital freshness to the London evening : Chapman , admittedly , had much less impact than at the Mandela concert , mainly because she sang carbon copies of songs which are now heard anywhere and everywhere ; but N'dour 's intriguing vocal range and muezzin 's inflections came over brilliantly in this company . |
| 8 | Cohen , March and Olsen ( 1972 ) provided a stark contrast to the planning-oriented literature on organization design and decision making with their ‘ garbage-can model ’ , which in essence claims that people and systems in organizations were in possession of solutions to problems and predispositions to take certain actions when problems or specific situations arise . |
| 9 | A grim , angst-filled film by Ingmar Bergman became ludicrously enjoyable through the persistent hiccups of the person sitting in front of me , which provided a perfect counterpoint to the strangulated Swedish voices onscreen . |
| 10 | These seminars provided a general introduction to the qualifications , and outlined the results of the pilot to date . |
| 11 | Subsequently , in the 1970s this approach was also addressed by M.A. Carson in The Mechanics of Erosion ( Carson , 1971 ) in a book which provided a unified introduction to the mechanics of erosional processes and which was aimed at undergraduates in earth science . |
| 12 | The system provided a strong impetus to the process of European integration . |
| 13 | The examination syllabus set new standards in the teaching of drama to young people and provided a spectacular contrast to the out-of-date , circumscribed speech and drama examinations of the Royal Academy , Guildhall and Trinity Colleges . |
| 14 | It is a pity that she could not have elaborated on several points , and provided a fuller answer to the question she herself raises on p. 101 : " When is it … perfectly appropriate to tell jokes and play with words ? " |
| 15 | It provided a subtle bridge to the promised land of successful survival : not overtly trumpeting the triumphant rebirth of conspicuous consumption , but nevertheless easing in an almost unconscious separation from raging youth . |
| 16 | This provided a tremendous boost to the development of London 's euro-dollar market . |
| 17 | Mandamus was therefore refused because the visitor 's determination provided a complete answer to the complaint of breach of natural justice by the provost and fellows . |
| 18 | The sale to the public of 50 per cent of British Telecom ( BT ) in December 1984 was , at the time , the largest privatisation issue and it provided a major spur to the whole programme . |
| 19 | The OPEC petro-dollar surplus provided a major boost to the euro-dollar market 's growth in the 1970s . |
| 20 | This clearly provided a major incentive to the other two districts to achieve the development of new services . |
| 21 | The prompt action by South Pacific countries to deal with the drift-net plague provided a marked contrast to the situation in the North Pacific high seas , where the US had been dragging its heels as the Asian drift-net fleets continued to pillage the salmon , tuna , and squid resources , and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals and hundreds of thousands of sea birds , many of them in Alaskan fisheries waters . |
| 22 | It provided a fitting accompaniment to the voice of the headmaster . |
| 23 | Bang up-to-date tractors were seen alongside diminutive pre-war vehicles , and the latest in creature comforts in the modern cabs provided a startling contrast to the metal seat and open-to-the-elements driving position of a 1930 machine . |
| 24 | Jazzy wave styled for height by Anthony Skito provided a soft frame to the face |
| 25 | In that universal approach , which provided a thought-provoking challenge to the established temperate models , King ( 1962 , pp. 162–3 , 643 ) introduced his model as : |
| 26 | None of the Six believed that the OEEC provided a meaningful alternative to the proposals discussed at Messina . |
| 27 | Even though at best only partial success was attained in ‘ imposing ’ this image on the still unbroken socialist/communist and catholic subcultures , where there were strong ideological counters to acceptance of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , and on sections of the upper classes whose status-conscious élitism provided a continuing barrier to the appeal of populist leadership images , there can be no doubt that the penetration of the propagated ‘ Hitler myth ’ was deep , especially , but by no means only , among the German middle classes . |
| 28 | And after a sparkling three days of racing , the Gold Cup itself provided a dramatic climax to the week . |
| 29 | One obvious explanation is that deconstruction provided a convenient successor to the New Criticism in mass higher education , providing a form of detailed close analysis of texts which does not require much in the way of contextual cultural literacy . |
| 30 | The story of the conversion of Thames Tunnel Mills at Rotherhithe on the south bank of the River Thames in central London provided a clear contrast to the foregoing accounts of the renovation of traditional water-powered , corn-grinding mills in Surrey and Sussex . |