Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johannitsa threatened the pope with accepting coronation from the patriarch of Constantinople : in 1203 Johannitsa submitted to the Holy See , the legate bestowed the pallium on the archbishop of Trnovo as primate and in November 1204 crowned Johannitsa king of the Bulgars and Wallachians . |
| 2 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 3 | In a triumph for the centre and right , the chief victors were the CEDA ( 117 seats ) and the Radicals ( 104 ) ; some forty seats went to the extreme right of Carlists and Alfonsists . |
| 4 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 5 | On Sept. 18-19 Baker delivered to the Syrian government a draft version of a " letter of assurances " reportedly confirming that the US regarded the Golan Heights as an occupied territory . |
| 6 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 7 | One of the features of the morning foursomes was that no less than five out of the six matches went to the 18th green , or beyond , before the professionals emerged with a 4 to 2 lead . |
| 8 | The trophy for the cow achieving the highest butter fat and protein records over three years went to the British Holstein Castledon Donfloss 4 , belonging to Norman Gotts , of Wickford , Essex . |
| 9 | All three people went to the High School . |
| 10 | In 1251 Henry returned to the royal service . |
| 11 | On March 3 Libya appealed to the International Court of Justice in the Hague ( as the judicial arm of the UN ) , asking it to take measures to prevent the dispute escalating . |
| 12 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
| 13 | The Centre Pompidou 's extensive autumn programme is yet another mammoth event : eleven exhibitions devoted to the visual arts , literature ( including one on the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges ) , cinema and theatre of Latin America , as well as debates , public readings , performances , a philosophy seminar , a symposium and a large number of publications . |
| 14 | Nationalist candidates identified with the Palestine Liberation Organization won nine out of 12 seats in elections to the Nablus chamber of commerce held on May 21 ; only two seats went to the Islamic list , identified with Hamas . |
| 15 | So on 29 October 1955 Fisher recommended to the prime minister that Bell be asked to move to York because he was the biggest person in sight and — despite his age — ‘ he might tide over for five or six years ’ ; and that Ramsey be invited to go to London , because that huge see would ‘ respond to his commanding ability ’ . |
| 16 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Even a £10 million Canaletto , sold to Andrew Lloyd Webber , or perhaps an even more astonishing $1.7 million Breenbergh sold to the Metropolitan Museum , New York , can not veil the reserve of private collectors and buyers . |
| 18 | Two gunmen went to the first floor and opened fire on two men in the salon , fatally injuring Mr Hughes . |
| 19 | In about 1228 Henry moved to the papal court , where he wrote occasional verse for patrons from all over western Europe . |