Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section . |
| 2 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 3 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 4 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 5 | The decline of Woodstock relative to Oxford merely led to the increasing importance of the present main road . |
| 6 | He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This time she did n't wait to see if anyone would come , but swiftly glanced to the small instrument tray . |
| 9 | ‘ A concession he obviously exercised to the full , ’ she contented herself with murmuring instead , her eyes dancing with amusement as she enjoyed his discomfort , a feeling of relief pervading her that she was about to locate Suzie at last . |
| 10 | Wolf was awake , instantly , and instantly into a fighting stance ; but Fox only collapsed to the other mattress , and lay there , still . |
| 11 | The police officer personally listened to the complete tapes of the interviews and I am therefore not in a position to give a conclusive answer to the question . ’ |
| 12 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 13 | I not only listened to the hon. Gentleman 's arguments tonight , but I have read the other speeches that he has made throughout the passage of the Bill . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But Cherwell council successfully appealed to the High Court in November . |
| 16 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 17 | So his foot went down two steps , and sure enough down came the wardrobe onto his toe and did n't do any damage and then just bounced to the next step down . |
| 18 | ‘ As I was saying , ’ Patrick Milligan continued , once his youngest was out of the house , ‘ if the best came to the best , and your sister married the old codger , we could be in clover . |
| 19 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the 1960's the date was changed to a Sunday to make it easier for people , but there was such an outcry that it soon reverted to the traditional Friday . |
| 22 | It was surely part of her duty to find out what finally happened to the seductive female spread out on the front cover . |
| 23 | Winchester 's next posting was to Cyprus to build defences , but he soon returned to the Western Desert , where , between May and September , he was involved in desperate rearguard actions — the battle of Gazala , followed by Alamein in July , when Auchinleck checked Rommel , who was then within striking distance of Alexandria . |
| 24 | In 1816 the old church at Owthorne finally succumbed to the coastal erosion and its remnants disappeared into the sea . |
| 25 | He thus returned to the Soviet capital under very different circumstances from his last visit 22 years earlier , when he had been brought to Moscow and forced to give his approval to the invasion . |
| 26 | But the building no longer belonged to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , and the apparatchiks , once the backbone of the party state , were contemplating the possibility of unemployment for the first time in their lives . |
| 27 | Rushed along through the dark , their faces soon settled to the same blank , tranced appearance as everyone else 's . |
| 28 | Racial theories fared best in policy areas already sensitized to the new conceptions of bodily health — motherhood , insanity and poverty , as well as birth-control and venereal disease . |
| 29 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after revelation upon revelation about his seedy affair with soft-porn starlet Antonia de Sancha and freebie holidays hosted by PLO chief 's daughter Mona Bauwens and an Arab sheik . |
| 30 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after 61 minutes , when he was visibly hobbling around . |