Example sentences of "they [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They devised a simple solution to this problem : the slave trade . |
| 2 | The following month they made a similar objection to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers beating the retreat in Shipquay Street . |
| 3 | Pro-ETA demonstrators had greeted King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia when they made a two-day visit to San Sebastián , in the Basque region , at the end of July . |
| 4 | Probably they made a nice start to a meal , too . |
| 5 | Around Christmas Fayre , when the Food Hall was crammed with food you did n't normally see in the other seasons , they made a nice end to a meal . |
| 6 | Indeed they made a significant contribution to the life of the city and took every opportunity to demonstrate their existence . |
| 7 | They made a vital contribution to the lively syndicate and plenary discussions , as well as to the other events , including a debate on who should not be thrown out of a hypothetical sinking hot air balloon . |
| 8 | They made a direct appeal to Mr Clarke as he was paying his first visit to a police station since taking over at the Home Office . |
| 9 | But he convinces one that , from their early days of teenage touring in Hauptmann 's Hannele , they shared a mutual devotion to each other , an indefinable star quality and a passion for the strange , hermetic world of theatre . |
| 10 | Overall , they found a greater tendency to underpricing . |
| 11 | They created a balanced approach to improving safety by working on management systems and on involvement and commitment . |
| 12 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 13 | Poles had proved in 1830 – 1 that they posed a genuine threat to the unity of the empire , but Ukrainians were not to constitute a significant danger for decades . |
| 14 | When the FA protested , they received a splendid rebuff to the effect that the PFA could not be expected ‘ to regard seriously the opinion that a football player forfeits a common legal right on entering into a professional engagement with a football club ’ . |
| 15 | The men had gone to the barn as a trio for a purpose , they stayed as a trio when they told a false story to the police . |
| 16 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 17 | They included a two-volume guide to Shakespeare 's plays , an investigation into the authorship of the Book of Genesis , a commentary on the poems of Kipling and Byron , a biographical encyclopaedia of all the scientists who have ever lived , musings on music and humour and a series of informative books with titles beginning How Did We Find Out About … ? on subjects ranging from black holes and life in the deep sea to number theory . |
| 18 | They brought a terrible chill to Sarah 's heart . |
| 19 | They took a motor-boat taxi to the end of the Grand Canal and crossed the busy Piazzale Roma , with its juddering buses and crowds of pedestrians , to one of the multi-storey garages . |
| 20 | Sitting at breakfast on the verandah of Bombay 's Sun'n'Sand hotel , some while after reading Philip Callahan 's Tuning in to Nature , I found myself quietly observing a highway of tiny , high speed ants as they took a specific path to and from their nest under the edge of the patio , gathering up enticing goodies from further down the flowerbed . |
| 21 | And certainly they took a casual attitude to vegetables , clearly regarding them as very second-rate fodder and not really to be taken seriously . |
| 22 | The courts have found breaches of this covenant in situations where homes were in such a poor condition when let that they represented a serious danger to health or safety . |
| 23 | Whether or not the likes of Richard Neville were accurately described in this manner by Mrs Whitehouse and other members of what Neville and his associates perceived to be the ‘ establishment ’ , or whether they could genuinely be described in Cohen 's ( 1988 ) terms as ‘ folk devils ’ , ‘ persons emerging to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ’ , it is clear that , for Mrs Whitehouse , they represented a grave threat to all that she held dear . |
| 24 | Since the majority of them were neither party members , nor teachers or agronomists , they represented a valuable addition to the ranks of those who might be able to promote smychka in the countryside . |
| 25 | What he did not explain was the logical conclusion that before Whinfield and Denmark Street controlled their budgets they offered a similar service to other surgeries . |
| 26 | The North Station cars were greatly missed by the locals for whom they offered a quick journey to the Station and Town Centre , when they were withdrawn in 1963 . |
| 27 | And the parties could fulfil their promises only if they presented a uniform program to the electorate and achieved a cohesive majority in the House of Commons to carry through that program . |
| 28 | But when a group of black kids from Brooklyn adopted Lauren 's Polo line of apparel , they gave a new reading to his class/race code . |
| 29 | He coughed , then added almost grudgingly , ‘ I thought they gave a feminine touch to the table . ’ |
| 30 | They gave a sensible guide to what glass was necessary in various sizes of tank . |