Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | With the establishment of the communist People 's Republic in 1949 remaining Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek fled to the former Japanese colony of Taiwan . |
| 2 | One view put forward by A. G. Dickens in the mid-1960s held that because Protestantism greatly appealed to the many lay people who had been alienated by the formalistic , clerically dominated Catholicism of the later middle ages , the Protestantization of the country was achieved very quickly . |
| 3 | In the course of the 1970s various ‘ summary ’ analyses of large numbers of ‘ effectiveness ’ studies — Lipton , Martinson and Wilks ( 1975 ) and Brody ( 1976 ) being perhaps the best known — came to the same negative conclusion . |
| 4 | These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population . |
| 5 | Twenty years later Channel Four , originally conceived as a publishing house for independent producers , succumbed to the same institutional pressures . |
| 6 | The nights belonged to the several extremist groups demanding an independent Sikh state . |
| 7 | The land scorpions were not direct descendants , but belonged to the same broad group and certainly shared the same savage habits . |
| 8 | The hyena remains that William Buckland took as evidence of the deluge belonged to the same recent period , as did the giant deer sometimes called the ‘ Irish elk ’ . |
| 9 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation . |
| 11 | Inside the confines of the car the atmosphere pulsed to the same demented rhythm that thrummed in her veins . |
| 12 | All coordinators , as we have seen , worked to the same basic job specification , adapted to meet the circumstances of their school . |
| 13 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |
| 14 | They went to the same Primary School . |
| 15 | Their younger daughter was the same age as Suzannah and went to and went to the same national school . |
| 16 | He looked to the former ducal retinue , including such non-northerners as Pole , Tyrell and Houghton . |
| 17 | He looked to the former ducal retinue , including such non-northerners as Pole , Tyrell and Houghton . |