Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | According to Labour 's own figures , in 1987 the Transport and General Workers Union gave more money to the Labour party than the whole of industry gave to the Tory party , and it gets votes for it , even on the leadership of the party . |
| 3 | Today , there is a small octagonal chapel in the Beirut coastal suburb of Antelyas dedicated to the 1915 massacres . |
| 4 | Unions became registered , thereby conferring access to an arbitration tribunal , and once registered they were largely protected from the emergence of new , rival organisations.8 As a result , the system of registration led to the early establishment and subsequent continuation of a large number of small unions and , as a secondary consequence , helped to impede amalgamation and union rationalisation . |
| 5 | The two square yards of broadloom devoted to the open hallway were almost blocked by a large bamboo plant , made of plastic , which waved majestically over a little fountain cascading water over two plastic shell-shaped basins which miraculously never overflowed . |
| 6 | Pride of place went to the immaculate English Electric Class 40 , D306 ( 40106 ) which has been restored to BR green livery with small yellow warning panels . |
| 7 | Moves towards healing in that context were made in 1986 when The United Church of Canada apologised to the Native people and confessed that they had ignored the wisdom and riches of their spiritual traditions . |
| 8 | According to these results the overwhelming majority of seats went to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) , whose officials vehemently denied opposition charges of election fraud , claiming that their " crushing success " was due to " good organization and hard work " . |
| 9 | In a result reflecting both the republic 's ethnic diversity and a resounding rejection of the ruling Bosnia-Hercegovina League of Communists , the vast majority of seats went to the three main nationalist parties separately appealing to the Moslem , Serb and Croat populations . |
| 10 | It 's wonderful to see the body of Christ mobilised to the lost in a local Church outreach setting and being able to facilitate the challenge . |
| 11 | Much of Bosnia belonged to the medieval Croatian kingdom between the ninth and eleventh centuries , at a time when Hercegovina was largely incorporated into the contemporary Serbian kingdoms . |
| 12 | On Nov. 19 , amid a developing ministerial and media war of words between Egypt and Iran , President Hosni Mubarak rejected " scurrilous " criticisms of Egypt attributed to the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei . |
| 13 | Shortage of timber led to the increased planting of fast growing conifers such as Norway spruce . |
| 14 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 15 | Oxford Molecular is the dedicated molecular science software house of the University of Oxford committed to the commercial development and professional support of high quality computational chemistry programs selected from the world 's best research laboratories . |
| 16 | Here , freely given on God 's Mountain , it spells unimaginable blessings of life lived to the full with God in his Land . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Given the image of BA coupled to the lower fares I can see passengers defecting in their droves from the City 's resident airlines . |
| 19 | ‘ The whole of Aquitaine belonged to the English crown , through the great Duchess Eleanor , ’ Rohan explained . |
| 20 | A traditionalist , he was guided by the natural right of succession and in his view , ‘ the house of Stuart succeeded to the full right of both the houses of York and Lancaster , whose common source is the undisputed right . ’ |
| 21 | In 1986–7 , in most Partnerships at least one-quarter of expenditure went to the voluntary sector , and in Birmingham , Lambeth and Hackney the figure was much higher . |
| 22 | The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court . |
| 23 | Incubation with therapeutic concentrations of drugs led to the following reductions in binding : 10 mM 5ASA , 20% ( p<0.001 ) ; 10 mM N-acetyl-5ASA , 24% ( p<0.01 ) ; 10 mM 4ASA , 21% ( p<0.005 ) ; 10 mM N-acetyl-4ASA , 29% ( p<0.001 ) ; and 1 mM olsalazine , 29% ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 24 | Their distinctive sound grew from adapting rock forms and instruments , and , eventually , it was in the pubs and folk festivals of Britain that they began to achieve some sort of prominence , while back home the discos of Harare pulsated to the real sound of Whitney Houston . |