Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 2 | With several modifications , such varied anthropologists as D. Forde [ 1948 ] , M. Fortes ] 1953 ] , and M. Sahlins [ 1961 ] have given support to the view that segmentary systems , the modern anthropological equivalent of Morgan 's ‘ gentile systems ’ , seem to occur in societies with similar technologies and they are by and large of the type postulated in The Origin . |
| 3 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 4 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 5 | He is scathing in his attacks on those French politicians , journalists and writers who " have collaborated in word and deed with the policies of Hitler " , and who " at critical moments have given support to the guiding principles of these policies : antisemitism , anti-communism , anti-democracy , hegemonic mission of the Reich in Europe , national-socialist " pacifism " . |
| 6 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
| 7 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
| 8 | And many pests have developed resistance to the most commonly used pesticides . |
| 9 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 10 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
| 11 | Reporters handed their just completed text to the news editor , who edited the stories and telephoned any alterations in the programme to the newscaster : ‘ Scott , kill story four from Moscow — something better 's come in , so we are n't going to run it ’ … |
| 12 | Lords Forte , Taylor ( of the construction giant Taylor Woodrow ) , Weinstock , King , Edwin McAlpine , Matthews , Vinson and Sieff had also coincidentally been associated with companies which had given money to the Conservative cause . |
| 13 | The Land Rover does n't belong to me and I 've got to make sure that those who 've given money to the trust do n't have it wasted . ’ |
| 14 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
| 15 | As most average families are in the bottom 60 per cent. , does not that show that the Government have given money to the rich at the expense of ordinary families ? |
| 16 | Voters narrowly rejected this scheme , which would have devolved responsibility to the communal level of authority , and cut down on the amount of incineration . |
| 17 | It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age . |
| 18 | For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views . |
| 19 | Since the 16th century the ease of hybridising all these naturally occurring forms both in nature and by the gardener has given rise to the delightful range of varieties we now grow . |
| 20 | These were The Cock and The Bull , and anecdotes arising out of their proximity and rivalry were said to have given rise to the phrase ‘ cock and bull story ’ . |
| 21 | Ramapithecus lasted for about 7 million years and may have then given rise to the first true hominid , Australopithecus , which has a similar dental structure . |
| 22 | The eruption which probably had the most far reaching effect on civilization was that of Santorin ( Thera ) in the Aegean , in about 1470 B.C. This abruptly extinguished the highly-developed Minoan culture centred on Crete , and , because the eruption caused the submergence beneath the sea of a large part of the island of Santorin , it may have given rise to the age-old legends of Atlantis , the ‘ lost ’ or ‘ drowned ’ continent . |
| 23 | Over the years , a few huge , widely reported pay-offs have given rise to the impression among more gullible members of the newspaper-reading public that six-figure golden handshakes are the norm for the departing business executive . |
| 24 | The unchaperoned freedom with which she and her sister had gone about the city with their prospective husbands had given rise to the ‘ hostile breath of rumour ’ , and had encouraged a general belief that ‘ Pantisocracy meant a system of things which dispensed with the marriage-tie ’ . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , this supposed trait and their tight , curly hair have given rise to the use of the name ‘ Poodle cats ’ as a popular term for them . |
| 26 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 27 | Which British prime ministers are said to have given rise to the phrase ‘ Bob 's Your Uncle ’ ? |
| 28 | This situation has accelerated the user experience of expert systems , and has given rise to the increasingly sophisticated applications in which expert systems can have combinations of simulation facilities , database links , graphic interfaces and speech recognition facilities . |
| 29 | Such observations have given rise to the notion of the ‘ invulnerable child ’ and are now leading to a radical re-appraisal of the results of risk research , with a shift of emphasis towards trying to understand the factors that enable some individuals to survive , or even profit from , their disposition to insanity . |
| 30 | Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation . |