Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a power committed to them by the judges , a power which the judges may resume . |
| 2 | Notwithstanding these advantages and the expenditure of close to $13m mainly on television advertising , Connally won no primaries and had only one delegate committed to him at the convention . |
| 3 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 4 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 5 | If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent . |
| 6 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 8 | The comparison will not show British progress in a very nattering light , for although Traffic in Towns was a hugely influential report in its day , nothing of significance has been added to it in the UK in a quarter of a century . |
| 9 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 10 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 11 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 12 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 13 | The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 . |
| 14 | In the 1477/8 parliament his position there was further strengthened by the exchange of Elfael , which had come to him with the Neville land but which was peripheral to his main Welsh interests , for the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Ogmore , which complemented his holdings in Glamorgan . |
| 15 | In the 1477/8 parliament his position there was further strengthened by the exchange of Elfael , which had come to him with the Neville land but which was peripheral to his main Welsh interests , for the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Ogmore , which complemented his holdings in Glamorgan . |
| 16 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 17 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 18 | BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’ |
| 19 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 20 | The court heard the shift supervisor at Three Mile Island change his testimony on the crucial relief-valve temperatures that were reported to him during the incident . |
| 21 | Until the 1930s , for example , it was a routine practice of the London police to record thefts reported to them by the public as ‘ lost property ’ . |
| 22 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 23 | When the lonely howl of a wolf carried to them through the forest , Isabel jumped , glancing at the door as if she expected to see the beast standing there . |
| 24 | At the start of the further hearing , the Attorney-General , who appeared for the Crown , drew our attention to a letter addressed to him by the Clerk of the House of Commons suggesting that any reference to Hansard for the purpose of construing the Act might breach the privileges of that House . |
| 25 | He looked to be peevish , the corners of his full mouth turned down , and an irritable look in his face each time he answered some remark addressed to him by the woman at his side . |
| 26 | Judge Hand 's refusal to comply with the request addressed to him in the Mexico City case rested on two grounds . |
| 27 | Where the defence arises our courts will act upon the so-called ‘ M'Naghten ’ rules , propounded by the judges in response to questions addressed to them by the House of Lords . |
| 28 | Interest in the Lamb is known to have been considerable at this period , when the third invocation addressed to it in the Mass was changed from " have mercy upon us " to " give us peace " . |
| 29 | It is through their confidence in the adequacy of a paradigm that scientists are able to devote their energies to attempts to solve the detailed puzzles presented to them within the paradigm , rather than engage in disputes about the legitimacy of their fundamental assumptions and methods . |
| 30 | Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission ? |