Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] 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 | Voters who have given their highest preferences to the weakest candidates are allowed to participate , perhaps decisively , in the contest between the strongest . |
| 4 | Through its entrepreneurs middle-class society had made its first approaches to the masses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Indeed , the Encomiast claims to have witnessed his lavish gifts to the churches of St Omer on his way to Rome . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She lost the colour which had tinted her pale cheeks to the velvety beauty of pink rose petals , and her lower lip was drawn in slightly . |
| 11 | Still hopelessly divided , they expected to hear that he had tendered their collective resignations to the King . |
| 12 | Twenty years old as she was , Ella had beaten her big sisters to the altar : Alice Maud , the eldest , waited a further two years before marrying Frank Foote , a clerk in Godsell 's Brewery in Stroud , Gloucestershire , in which town she herself had served an apprenticeship with a ladies ' hairdresser in High Street . |
| 13 | You will have lost your latest changes to the document , but if you have been saving your documents regularly , as you should , this should not be too much of a problem . |
| 14 | With their emphasis more on the location of the work than on its precise nature , support teachers have evolved their own solutions to the many questions about support teaching for which there are as yet no generally accepted answers . |
| 15 | On June 18 , the Supreme Soviet finally adopted the state budget for 1992 , which had been prepared with IMF and World Bank advice , having returned it four times to the budgetary commission for redrafting . |