Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lapworth 's academic career began as lecturer in chemistry at the School of Pharmacy in Bloomsbury ; in 1900 he moved to the Goldsmiths ' Company 's Institute at New Cross as head of the chemistry department . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly the people left behind can experience immense dislocation , amounting in extreme cases to complete social and economic dereliction , but with no economic base to support a larger rural population , conditions would have been worse if those who moved to the towns had chosen to remain in the countryside . |
| 3 | But between 1850 and 1920 some 15 per cent of the total population of the United States moved to the suburbs . |
| 4 | After the knee operation he moved to the slips , and of course proved pretty useful there , too . |
| 5 | It was in 1975 , when she moved to the depths of the countryside in the south of France , that life and painting began to take a different shape . |
| 6 | Craving isolation , he moved to the depths of Herefordshire . |
| 7 | The pallbearers laid the coffin down in the clear space at the exact centre of the cemetery , and moved to the edges , standing amidst the grave markers like ragged vultures . |
| 8 | Londoner Ken Butler moved to the Fens 12 years ago , where space has never been at a premium , to carry on his profession of carpenter specialising in reproduction furniture . |
| 9 | She moved to the stairs and stood for a moment in the silence of the hallway , the candle flickering in her hand . |
| 10 | After spending six months as a landing officer , he moved to the kitchens . |
| 11 | Upon marrying Lovebird Johnston , Juan moved to the outskirts of Kingstown , St Vincent and finally found work packing bananas for shipping around the world . |
| 12 | She moved to the neighbours ' wall and sprayed ‘ fornicator ’ and ‘ debauchee ’ . |
| 13 | We ask of each person whether he did anything he should not have done such that he should be blamed for the deaths that followed , or whether he contributed to the accidents in such a way that , blameworthy or not , he should bear some portion of the damage or loss . |
| 14 | In Chapter 6 , it was suggested that one factor which contributed to the variations in fortune between different towns was the extent to which they had been affected by developments in the manufacture of cloth . |
| 15 | As we have already mentioned , there were many factors which contributed to the trends to ‘ total war ’ in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 16 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 17 | Jerome Blum assigns the tsar pride of place in the list of factors which contributed to the serfs ' emancipation . |
| 18 | Minton also contributed to the Arts Council 's ‘ 60 Paintings for ‘ 51 ’ exhibition , for which sixty artists had been commissioned to produce a painting at least 45″ × 60″ in size . |
| 19 | — by recording and reviewing number of courses and coaching awards gained , and , if appropriate , recording the constraints which contributed to the results falling short of the target . |
| 20 | The paper by Barrington ( 1886 ) on St. Kilda was one of those commended by Campbell ( op. cit. ) , while Gibson ( 1891 ) and Praeger ( 1897 ) also contributed to the lists for this most remote of all the outliers . |
| 21 | I am very grateful to everyone in the Library who contributed to the costs of this trip . |
| 22 | But it is not yet clear whether they base their judgements on their own features , or whether they have become habituated to the characteristics of their full-sister group . |
| 23 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 24 | The Commissioners for the Improvement of the Town of Bedford proposed to the directors of the House that they should sweep and clean the carriage and foot pavements in the town for £26.5s. per annum . |
| 25 | He looked to the side of the room and saw the plastic speaker from which the sound had come ; it was a component from an old car stereo , and it hung from a hook with its wire incompetently stapled to the boards . |
| 26 | The committee should be ready to attend lectures , courses and events devoted to the principles of worship , and to visit other churches in order to exchange ideas . |
| 27 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there should be a Select Committee of this House devoted to the affairs of Northern Ireland ? |
| 28 | As an entree to the main Flight hall , visitors will come through FlightLab , the excellent inter-active area devoted to the mechanics and science of flight — designed for kids , but equally enthralling for kids of bygone times ! |
| 29 | toymaker employed by Tackleton , ‘ a little , meagre , thoughtful-faced man ’ , devoted to the interests of his blind daughter Bertha , a paragon of fortitude and cheerfulness , and friend of Dot Peerybingle 's , and also to the memory of his son Edward , who is wrongly believed to have died in South America . |
| 30 | ‘ Figures du moderne ’ is the title of the exhibition devoted to the Expressionists belonging to the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups . |