Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently he moved to the neighbouring village of Griesbeckerzell with wife Gisela and their year-old son , Stefan . |
| 2 | Begun in 1960 , in 1984 the fair moved to the ample space of the Fiera which is better equipped to deal with the growing number of visitors and exhibitors . |
| 3 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 6 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 7 | Crouching again , he moved to the other side of the cabinet and repeated the same manoeuvre , craning his head to look out . |
| 8 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 9 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 10 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 11 | Ian always wanted to work in industry , and in April 1986 , he moved to the Legal Department of British Coal [ then still known as the National Coal Board ] , specialising first in property work in the Gateshead office , and the following year joining a team of commercial solicitors based in Doncaster . |
| 12 | Grant was very much a ‘ practising chemist ’ and moved to the analytical practice of Hehner and Cox in 1948 . |
| 13 | Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile . |
| 14 | Tyson , two of whose penalty decisions contributed to the recent battle of Highbury between Arsenal and Norwich , this time gave nothing , but by half-time he had cautioned Sheedy and Pearce for fouls . |
| 15 | In the preceding generation it contributed to the general discovery of the complex and various causes of poverty , and to considerable public discussion of the problem of the aged poor . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | It is clear that the North of England and especially Scotland contributed to the large advance of 1792 over 1788 . |
| 18 | We are grateful also to Lord Flowers and all the speakers at various events and to the many members of the University who contributed to the public launch of the Campaign for Resource . |
| 19 | By deciding in late 1987 to take my daughter to Budapest 's Peto Institute for a spell of conductive education I ‘ contributed to the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's … disability ’ — ; in her case , cerebral palsy . |
| 20 | The advent of work with apprentices gave a new dimension to the Eastern District 's overall programme : alongside the expansion in trade union provision and the increase in branches and branch membership , they contributed to the growing self-assurance of the District by the later 1950s . |
| 21 | The overseas trade in cloth also contributed to the growing dominance of London , because exports were largely in the hands of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company , which was increasingly dominated by the London Mercers ' Company ( 64 ) . |
| 22 | They were gaudy and sexually suggestive and each tailored to the individual characteristics of the woman to be wed . |
| 23 | So , one key feature of these early surveys was the assumption that the greater the absolute size of the population studied and the closer this approximated to the total population of the country , the better . |
| 24 | These were papers , filling two volumes , left unpublished at Hunter 's death , which Owen dedicated to the Royal College of Surgeons , where from 1837 he had been Hunterian Professor . |
| 25 | Maybe it will not provide much new material for the dedicated enthusiast because there are so many other books devoted to the early history of railways . |
| 26 | Methodist Archives and Research Centre ( Manchester ) The collections are housed in the John Rylands Library and comprise documents and books devoted to the religious history of the denomination . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It has dedicated its Canadian historical collection to one of the art world 's more radical attempts to engage the spectator : one room mimics a nineteenth-century salon , with scores of paintings crammed one above the other to the advantage of none ; another gallery , devoted to the famed Group of Seven , contains a pew-like bench set directly in front of Tom Thomson 's ‘ West Wind ’ ( a national icon ) and two landscapes by Lauren Harris , rigged with telephones providing a soundtrack on the artists . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Here is a special Times supplement , no less , devoted to the future recovery of Lebanon in which I write of the ships returning to Beirut port , of the re-opening of central banking facilities , the renovations at the temples of Baalbek , the arrival of the first postwar tourists — Swedes , of course — who were bussed off to the ruins of the Palestinian camp of Tel al-Za'atar and then to the Bekaa . |