Example sentences of "wrote to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much the same distinction was to assume importance in the Galileo affair , for when Niccolo Riccardi wrote to the Florentine inquisitor about the license for Galileo 's Dialogue , he indicated that the pope , Urban VIII , would only allow ‘ mathematical considerations of the Copernican positions . ’ |
| 2 | Thongsouk Saysangkhi : former Deputy Minister of Science and Technology , he was arrested on 8 October 1990 in the capital , Vientiane , following the circulation of a letter he wrote to the then Prime Minister Kaysone Phomvihan , asking to resign from his government post and from the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Part . |
| 3 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 4 | She wrote to the then Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Michael Ramsay and , in her own words , issued a challenge to him . |
| 5 | Eleven years ago I wrote to the then President of our Institute making the case for expanding the role of the Institute . |
| 6 | Within a few hours of becoming queen Anne wrote to the Dutch States-General setting out the basis of her policy . |
| 7 | The man wrote to the young man 's parents that their son ‘ strikes me as someone who stands in his own light ’ . |
| 8 | The next day she wrote to the General Secretary . |
| 9 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 10 | But three years later on 27 July 1795 the new head of the Macclesfield company , Abraham Mills , wrote to the new agent Thomas Harrison of Kendal , advising him , alas , that " … the Coniston Mine has for some time been so unproductive that it has been determined to discontinue the working … " |
| 11 | Faced with an annual poll tax demand of £380 ‘ for which we do n't even get the bin emptied ’ says secretary/manager Vince Kirkup the club wrote to the new Lib-Dem administration seeking relief . |
| 12 | Some three months later , on 5 June 1824 , he wrote to the Central Committee pointing out that as the bulk of shipwrecks on the island were from ‘ the surrounding kingdoms ’ it would be of benefit to all maritime interests for lifeboat stations to be established by the national organisation . |
| 13 | Hoping to convince other pupils of the value of studying the language , the teenagers wrote to the famous and the not-so-famous to find out whether Latin lessons are any use in modern life . |
| 14 | In that connection , I should like to quote from a letter that the Secretary of State wrote to the right hon. Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) who was concerned — rightly so — about a letter that a tenant in his constituency had received from Grand Metropolitan Estates . |
| 15 | Candidates either wrote to the Colonial Office or to an influential relative , or , not infrequently , walked in off the street . |
| 16 | These were the people I wrote to the other day ? |
| 17 | In the same vein he wrote to the papal legate in 1095 : |
| 18 | The ILP wrote to the Labour party , the TUC and the Co-operative and Communist parties on 13 February 1934 calling for : an immediate consultation between representatives of all sections of the working class so that we may plan common action . |
| 19 | Mr Blunkett said Mr Sackville , who is responsible for the capital 's ambulance service , wrote to the Labour MP Glenda Jackson on October 21 last year , claiming the CAD system was functioning correctly at a technical level . |
| 20 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 21 | ANIMAL rights campaigner Vicki Moore was so upset by cruelty to cows and bulls during the festivities at Candelada , near Avila , Spain , that she wrote to the Prime Minister about it . |
| 22 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 23 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |
| 24 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , and my right hon. and hon. Friends wrote to the Prime Minister , but we have not received a reply . |
| 25 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 26 | My Member of Parliament , Harold Lever , in response to an earlier letter of mine , wrote to the Algerian ambassador in London and got approval for me to cross the Algerian Sahara on foot . |
| 27 | In May 1940 , the RCM general secretary wrote to the Chief Rabbi , pointing out ‘ that our Regional Committees are autonomous and neither they nor the committees under them like interference in the arrangements they make for religious instruction ’ . |
| 28 | Institute president Ian Plaistowe , after reading a newspaper report of Mr Damant 's views , wrote to the Financial Times saying that : ‘ The reduction of differences in the accounting treatment of events and transactions arising in the same circumstances must surely remain as the standard-setters ’ prime objective' . |
| 29 | On 15 November she wrote to the Financial Times . |
| 30 | The district secretary of the union wrote to the managing director setting out the union 's case for recognition . |