Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings . |
| 2 | Some of these creatures are eaten , others are kept as pets or ridden to war , while the very biggest are worshipped as gods . |
| 3 | It was her second husband , David , who died 16 years ago , who persuaded her to adopt orphaned elephants to see if they could be nursed through their grief and restored to health . |
| 4 | The Marquess was arrested at his flat in west London on Tuesday and taken to prison for failing to pay the maintenance arrears within the stipulated two weeks . |
| 5 | The man , in his mid-forties , was rescued by fire fighters and taken to hospital , where he was treated for smoke inhalation . |
| 6 | That this principle applies even to a person convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment seems to me to emerge clearly from the decision in this court in Reg. v. Board of Visitors of Hull Prison , Ex parte St. Germain [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 7 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 8 | On 13 December 1983 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death . |
| 9 | If you wish to invite your Principal please apply for a complimentary ticket from the office should you do this please ensure that any V.I.P. you have invited is met , conducted to their seat and taken to tea and is generally made to feel welcome . |
| 10 | Third , do parties put forward programmes of policies that are " different " and offer a real choice , and is it the case that the winning party carries out its programme if elected to office ? |
| 11 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 12 | For nine years she was a postwoman in Berkshire and used to cycle 18 miles a day . |
| 13 | The value of the book was further enhanced by a bibliography which showed the breadth of the author 's research and brought to light many historical sources which had been ignored , forgotten or underestimated by previous writers . |
| 14 | The scrap was loaded into a narrow boat at the bottom of the incline and taken to North Kilworth for transshipment by rail . |
| 15 | One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood . |
| 16 | Restraint covenants agreed to in respect of the merged firm will be unenforceable unless some part of the business can be properly regarded as continuing the merged practice and entitled to protection . |
| 17 | A woman aged about 35 was cut free from one car and taken to hospital with various injuries . |
| 18 | A lot of young agents and bookers come from colleges where they have started as social secretaries and begun to book bands . |
| 19 | Victory on Majed , Fishki , Wellwotdouthink , Ambuscade and Programmed To Win , by an aggregate of 41 lengths and at accumulated odds of 43–1 , boosted Niven 's tally for the season to 32 . |
| 20 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 21 | The ‘ law ’ of natural evolution or development , especially when popularized by Herbert Spencer and applied to society , was said to parallel traditional Christian reliance on Divine Providence and meant that the expansion of Nonconformity at home and the extraordinary growth of British power and influence abroad could be seen as part of the same phenomenon . |
| 22 | The sons of Pinner , the true sons , are groomed in the local prep schools and dispatched to Merchant Taylors in Northwood for their private education . |
| 23 | More exactly , he becomes man-god as opposed to God-man who is the Christ of Christianity . |
| 24 | What percentage of their time would they spend actually on doing research as opposed to teaching ? |
| 25 | This is produced by an enzyme system which gives off light when exposed to oxygen and is a vastly more efficient process than that used by us to create artificial light . |
| 26 | Another variant of utilitarianism which commanded a good deal of support in fairly recent times was rule as opposed to act utilitarianism . |
| 27 | On the Leicester Abbey estates , of which 75–80 per cent fell within the shire , rent income in 1408 was nearly a fifth lower than in 1341 , and by 1477 had fallen by almost a third on the 1341 figure , despite the fact that the proportion of income obtained from rent as opposed to production had risen . |
| 28 | But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation . |
| 29 | Actual violence as opposed to threat and intimidation was not much present in the English food riot . |
| 30 | The difficulty in extending trover to cases covered by detinue was that conversion could only be committed by a positive act — misfeasance as opposed to nonfeasance . |