Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theology must take as its starting-point the actuality of God 's self-revelation in Jesus Christ , disclosed to us by the Holy Spirit , and set its sights and adjust its compass by that . |
| 2 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 4 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 5 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 6 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
| 7 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 8 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 9 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 10 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 11 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 12 | It was held that the applicants lacked a sufficient interest in the matter because the Revenue had acted within the discretion permitted to it in the day-to-day administration of the tax system . |
| 13 | Part II requested the Secretary-General to report to the next ( 46th ) session on the recommendations addressed to him by the Intergovernmental Expert Group to Study the Economic and Social Consequences of Illicit Traffic in Drugs convened under Resolution 44/142 of Dec. 15 , 1989 [ see p. 37434 ] . |
| 14 | The Collector of Taxes in Glasgow in 1831 was one Blair , and the Loyal Reformers ' Gazette , a radical publication of the time , has a letter addressed to him in the following terms : |
| 15 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 16 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 17 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 18 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
| 19 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 20 | Are you telling me it was presented to you by the Royal Artillery Club ? |
| 21 | Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War . |
| 22 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 23 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 24 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 25 | The key to the achievement of a consensus lay in Hawke 's agreement to increase the financial autonomy of individual states by expanding their powers to raise taxes and by loosening controls on how they spent money transferred to them by the federal government . |
| 26 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 27 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 28 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 29 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 30 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |