Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | CGI 's top three officials , including chairman Robert Mallet , who together hold 25.4% , have committed their own shares to the bid . |
| 2 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 3 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 4 | They had flown into the atmosphere and had carried his broken body to the other side of the castle . |
| 5 | Given its comparative relevance to the British coal dispute , it is essential that we examine this conduct in more detail . |
| 6 | Historically the word may come from one of several sources , but given its apparent near-restriction to the Welsh border counties , its origin lies perhaps in the Old Welsh Cai , the Middle Welsh Kei , and the Latin Caius , a common praenomen among the Romans . |
| 7 | Voters who have given their highest preferences to the weakest candidates are allowed to participate , perhaps decisively , in the contest between the strongest . |
| 8 | If the key role in opposing James 's pro-Catholic policies came from the Anglican establishment , and in particular from the clergy , how did they justify doing this , given their professed attachment to the principles of non-resistance and passive obedience ? |
| 9 | Through its entrepreneurs middle-class society had made its first approaches to the masses . |
| 10 | Bundespost Telekom says that operating profit in 1992 fell 4.6% to the equivalent of $4,157m ; after Telekom has made its required subvention to the federal government and its two loss-making sister units , it will be left with nothing to add to reserves — it is required by law to transfer 10 pct of its annual turnover to the federal government and to make up for losses at the Postdienst mail service and Postbank postal banking unit , Reuter notes . |
| 11 | A few minutes earlier , however , and those flames would have been funeral pyres — such was the significance of this game to the club , who have seen their promising start to the season subside . |
| 12 | Robert Maxwell reassured shareholders and the world at large that he had turned his giant mind to the greenhouse effect . |
| 13 | Many clerics have not accepted his overnight promotion to the rank of ayatollah . |
| 14 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |
| 15 | Such collaboration included participation in the campaign to free Henri Martin imprisoned for alleged subversive , anti-colonial activities , the publication of a series of enthusiastic reports on the Soviet Union following a visit to the USSR in 1954 , twenty years exactly after Nizan had made his own pilgrimage to the mecca of communism , and the production of a pro-communist play Nekrassov . |
| 16 | Far from it , for he has matched his chosen designs to the theme of the growth of professionalism in architecture from the formation of the Architects ' Club in 1791 to the founding of the Institute of British Architects in 1837 ; and more than this , for just as architects strove for recognition in a professional world being transformed by the Industrial Revolution and new sciences , so does Worsley show us how this new breed of architect acquired technical proficiencies : in the presentation of drawings , in methods of copying and reproduction , in colour coding , and in advanced modes of perspective . |
| 17 | Many miners apprenticed their young sons to the trade taking them underground at 15 , 16 or 17 years of age and paying them their worth , or less . |
| 18 | The two singers have contributed their first-ever duet to the Special Olympics ' upcoming ‘ Very Special Christmas II ’ album . |
| 19 | Her husband had contributed his symbolic share to the insignia of German monarchy by giving a dove-topped sceptre ( in the English style ) to Aachen cathedral in 1262 . |
| 20 | Like Snow White 's wicked stepmother , she has not only abandoned her adopted heir to the company of dwarves ; she lives in terror that he might yet be more admired and loved than she . |
| 21 | They had found their own solution to the humanist problem of mating music with words in musique mesurée , the influence of which lingered on although it was no longer practised with doctrinaire thoroughness , and the air de cour with lute accompaniment flourished to the near exclusion of polyphonic song , though some of the published lute airs were obviously based on polyphonic originals . |
| 22 | Well if he had X to the seventh that would have given him seven X to the sixth |
| 23 | Mr Shekhar has declared his undying loyalty to the new government , without revealing whether he would join it . |
| 24 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 25 | Indeed , the Encomiast claims to have witnessed his lavish gifts to the churches of St Omer on his way to Rome . |
| 26 | He had sat and formulated his final speech to the Academy . |
| 27 | Adam had given his only key to the estate agent . |
| 28 | Mr Thompson has also given his full support to the North West Olympic bid . |
| 29 | Besides , with GEMU , which no East German politician dare oppose , East Germany will already have yielded its monetary sovereignty to the West German Bundesbank and with it a lot of its room for political manoeuvre . |
| 30 | If in one election alter another considerable numbers of electors supporting the CDU/CSU or the SPD with their first votes had not switched their second votes to the FOP its representation in the Bundestag could have been reduced to insignificance or vanished altogether . |