Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ the world beat a path to our door , ’ said Pearce , ‘ We were supplying the technology and the catalysts world-wide . |
| 3 | At the age of 98 he contributed a preface to the biography of Col De Lancey Forth , of the Imperial Camel Corps . |
| 4 | At this time Henry contributed a poem to the fund-raising campaign for the construction of Salisbury Cathedral , and also wrote for patrons in Cologne . |
| 5 | He was a lively and stylish writer , and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living . |
| 6 | Conservator Nathan Stolow , who contributed a chapter to the National Gallery 's own guide to art transport , has called for public accounting of the way in which the paintings were prepared and restored for travel and attacked the National Gallery for creating an exhibition advisory committee composed of officials from the tour 's participating institutions . |
| 7 | She contributed a paper to the first congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Birmingham ( 1857 ) . |
| 8 | Elected FRS on 19 November 1772 , Jackson contributed a paper to the Philosophical Transactions for 1773 , stressing that over forty tons of isinglass had been processed from fish in the Great Lakes resembling those imported expensively from Russia . |
| 9 | Greece contributed a frigate to the coalition forces in the Gulf war and participated in the trade embargo against Iraq [ see pp. 37935 ; 37942 ] . |
| 10 | A FLURRY of takeover rumours together with promise of a breakthrough in the GATT talks provided a kickstart to a dull market going nowhere fast . |
| 11 | Heresy provided a threat to civil as well as ecclesiastical order , to political settlement and to peace . |
| 12 | Throughout our period , for example , tin-mining provided alternative employment in parts of Cornwall , and the demand for food by those engaged in this occupation provided a stimulus to local agriculture . |
| 13 | Its immediate effect was the flight of Adminius , another son of Cunobelinos , and who had been installed as King of the north-east tip of Kent to control the main port of entry at Richborough and the Wansum Channel which provided a short-cut to the Thames . |
| 14 | It is in this inherited conception of the equality of all human beings that the people of the Lake District provided a contrast to the rest of England ; Wordsworth therefore believed that ‘ humble and rustic ’ men were not yet corrupted . |
| 15 | Sweeney 's Brittenesque , atmospheric score provided a counterpart to McGuinness 's vision of suitably hatted dancers , as chromosomes and genes , swishing about in a vibrant multi-coloured womb . |
| 16 | UNESCO-sponsored research , particularly associated with the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems , led to the publication of Many Voices , One World ( MacBride Commission , 1980 ) , which set the agenda for the 1980s and provided a spur to the creation of World Communications Year ( 1983 ) , continuing World Conferences on Strategies and Policies for Informatics , and other initiatives . |
| 17 | This exercise provided a guide to the logical roles and activities of each group and the relationships between them , which , in conjunction with other background documents , was used as a basis for interviews with representative staff . |
| 18 | This provided a boost to bigger-ticket purchases . |
| 19 | We provided a note to the committee in January ninety three about this . |
| 20 | Richard 's disregard for their cherished customs of inheritance threatened them all , directly or indirectly , and provided a cause to which all could rally in defence of the right order of their world . |
| 21 | Both he , and R.A. Smith in his British Museum guide to Anglo-Saxon Antiquities ( 1923 ) , accepted the important work of the scholar Bernhard Salin , Die altgermanische Thierornamentik ( 1904 ) , whose analysis of the animal motifs used in migration period art provided a chronology to which the English material could be related . |
| 22 | & G. 481 was concerned with a statute which provided a reward to be paid to inhabitants of any parish who informed and in due course provided evidence against any person keeping a disorderly house . |
| 23 | In turn , the way in which different product lines were structured within divisions provided a key to the complex origins of job losses . |
| 24 | The years 1931 , 1951 and 1970 each provide evidence of such a movement ; notably in the early fifties the Bevanites provided a challenge to the Labour leadership . |
| 25 | In 1421 they entered a contract to be loyal to each other without dissimulation or fraud . |
| 26 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 27 | At the end of the last article I promised a visit to Wales , to see whether the same geometric patterns existed in that part of the country . |
| 28 | The reforms introduced after 1905 promised a solution to the rural poverty and land hunger which had brought peasant unrest to the surface in that year . |
| 29 | If , for example , you changed a word to italic , the word-processor would record a mark before the italicised word indicating ‘ italic from now on ’ and a second mark after the italicised word so it knows to return the rest of the text to normal style . |
| 30 | In 1836 he demonstrated a solution to an outstanding environmental problem . |