Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The maggots had done their work in those sockets and moved to other pastures . |
| 32 | Some managers found it ‘ painful ’ to relinquish their traditional directive management style and moved to other parts of the company . |
| 33 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 34 | A year as Agricultural Division personnel manager followed ; he moved to General chemicals as general manager in 1986 . |
| 35 | They moved to cheaper hotels where they were not supposed to have food in their rooms but took it in turns to get breakfast and hide tiny stoves in the wardrobes while waving the cooking fumes out of the window . |
| 36 | So then I moved to brighter colours . |
| 37 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 38 | North Yorkshire county council also moved to head-off fears about teacher redundancies . |
| 39 | First they moved to surrounding countries : Denmark , Holland and Belgium . |
| 40 | Some residents of the countryside , particularly younger sons , moved to urban areas on a permanent basis , but many were employed as dekasegi workers , away for anything up to three years or more . |
| 41 | Flames leaping to thirty feet in the air were reported just off the road at Wheatley causing a stretch of the road to be closed all day . |
| 42 | It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers . |
| 43 | As well as Nina , there was the proton accelerator at the Rutherford Laboratories , and Britain contributed to similar accelerators at CERN in Geneva . |
| 44 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 45 | He contributed to many newspapers and magazines , one of them the Weekly Dispatch , in whose pages he was in 1885–6 an early advocate of the formation of an independent Labour party . |
| 46 | The ‘ Old Believers ’ , as the schismatics became known , lacked intellectual vigour , but their protest gave expression to more general social discontent and they contributed to popular revolts from that of Stenka Razin ( 1670–71 ) onwards . |
| 47 | It was the discovery by Dr Alice Stewart , for example , that the radiation from hospital X-rays given to pregnant women could increase the risk of leukaemia in their babies which contributed to severe limits being placed on their usage . |
| 48 | The effects of oil appeared to halt the decline in the 1980s , and it is a principal question for this book whether recovery is being , or can be , generated by the growth of services ( such as financial services ) provided to other countries ( see below ) . |
| 49 | Also in the wake of the 1918 Franchise Bill , the Party formed a Women 's Section under Dr Marion Phillips and appointed regional organizers to attract to newly-enfranchised women . |
| 50 | By the same token the most vociferous upholders of monogeny , the thesis that all men are members of a single species , have often been deeply committed to political doctrines of social equality . |
| 51 | Their position was not altogether consistent , since they were committed to professional standards of achievement within the discipline , and , as they were paid to engage in it , were themselves professionals . |
| 52 | Well the trend though over all is absolutely clear , that the Labour Party is committed to increasing women 's representation and is absolutely on that path , we 've more Labour women MP s and increasing numbers of women in the shadow cabinet it 's only in the end of the nineteen eighties , as recently as then , that we had no women in the shadow cabinet , now everybody agrees that it would look quite wrong not to have women in the shadow cabinet , we 've got a woman deputy leader , three women in the shadow cabinet , and therefore we 're definitely moving forward . |
| 53 | We are committed to widening opportunities without compromising academic standards . |
| 54 | In addition , though the party offered its electorate little it was committed to moral ideas and personal liberation to such an extent that it excited passionate enthusiasms . |
| 55 | The Health and Safety Executive is an equal opportunities employer and is formally committed to equal opportunities . |
| 56 | ‘ The CBI is firmly committed to equal opportunities in the workplace and is taking the message to the smaller firms , where the majority of new jobs will be created , ’ added Mr Davies . |
| 57 | A government committed to the principles of choice , ownership , responsibility and opportunity ; committed to low inflation and low taxes ; committed to better quality and value in our public services ; committed to strong defences . |
| 58 | In a speech broadcast on television on Oct. 23 , shortly before polls opened , he called on voters to refrain from voting for parties not committed to Islamic values — a suggestion taken to be directed against the PPP . |
| 59 | To encourage our work force to be committed to environmental issues . |
| 60 | Our members , of whom we have about 2,000 across the whole of Scotland , are almost all committed to environmental issues and therefore form a logical target population for membership of EIG . |