Example sentences of "[adv] appealed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These images behind religious , secular or allegorical subjects as the century moved on , greatly appealed to the English . |
| 2 | One view put forward by A. G. Dickens in the mid-1960s held that because Protestantism greatly appealed to the many lay people who had been alienated by the formalistic , clerically dominated Catholicism of the later middle ages , the Protestantization of the country was achieved very quickly . |
| 3 | He was , it seems , interested in the prolongation of life ; but the picture of the sheer gloom of human existence expressed in " De Contemptu " — which apparently so appealed to contemporaries — does little to enthral the modern reader . |
| 4 | His preaching not only appealed to the mind , but also moved the heart . |
| 5 | It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters . |
| 6 | ‘ What aspects of the club most appealed to you , sir ? ’ |
| 7 | But Cherwell council successfully appealed to the High Court in November . |
| 8 | February 24 , 1977 The solicitors successfully appealed to Kerr J. and the third party notice was restored . |
| 9 | The barrister successfully appealed to the Court of Appeal and the third party notice was again struck out . |
| 10 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 11 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 12 | Pickering said : ‘ I just appealed to the linesman . |
| 13 | The conclusion that the speeches largely appealed to long-standing victims of the ‘ Führer myth ’ also seems justified on the basis of an examination of the more nuanced reports from local SD agencies , which , while generally positive , provide a somewhat more varied picture of reactions . |
| 14 | Predictably , the ‘ night of fun ’ presented by the British Music Hall Company to open the Festival of Comedy generally appealed to the older age group . |
| 15 | This poem extolled the achievements of Robert Bruce and Sir James Douglas — the Good Sir James — and directly appealed to the patriotism of the Scots . |
| 16 | His image directly appealed to the hard core of Scotland 's tartan army , a group of supporters whose profile in the ‘ 70s was more notorious than the visigoths . |
| 17 | And it is well known that , being required to prepare designs for a useless and costly object by one of our leading nobility , long since deceased , one of princely fortune , but who had an extravagant passion for building , he purposely appealed to the son to advise his father to give the intention ’ . |
| 18 | The Earl lost his men in the mist and the smoke , and mistakenly appealed to those near him — not only Cumberland 's soldiers , but Scots Fusiliers , who took him prisoner . |
| 19 | The Surrealist School always appealed to a narrower , more intellectual band of collectors than those who bought the Impressionists . |
| 20 | Both the Thames Region and the Southern Region of the National Rivers Authority yesterday appealed to consumers to save water after levels in chalk boreholes in the Chilterns , Berkshire Downs and North and South Downs sank below the levels of the 1976 drought . |
| 21 | But Kingstonian chairman Barry Chauveau yesterday appealed to the FA about the incident . |
| 22 | POWER-HOUSE prop Kevin Ward yesterday appealed to Great Britain coach Mal Reilly : ‘ Let me have one last crack at Australia . ’ |
| 23 | At Northern Foods Horsley 's brother-in-law , Chris Haskins , was taking a bigger and bigger part in the running of the company , leaving Horsley with more time , and he was delighted to have a chance to help in a project which instantly appealed to his idealistic nature . |
| 24 | Both appealed to the appeal committee established under the Act of 1980 . |
| 25 | Replying to Mr Yevtushenko , the President briskly appealed to deputies not to take ‘ hasty decisions ’ . |
| 26 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 27 | The NRA also appealed to water users to use washing machines and dishwashers only when fully-loaded and to use the minimum of water for gardening and car washing . |
| 28 | But perhaps the irony of the situation also appealed to him . |
| 29 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 30 | The major attention then was focused on Vietnam and there were very few people covering Cambodia , which also appealed to me as a journalist . ’ |