Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of twenty-two he returned to Ireland and on his father 's advice sought admission to the National Deaf Mute College in America for a degree course . |
| 2 | The narrator himself — the subject of his poem — joins in , and offers sympathy to the defeated party . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
| 5 | Bye-law 76 makes members liable for disciplinary action when they enter an IVA , but whether the Investigation Committee refers cases to the Disciplinary Committee or not will depend on a member 's attitude to the arrangement , rather than on its causes . |
| 6 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
| 7 | It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
| 9 | The primary demand on him will be to restore Wanderers to the national league 's first division in time for the club 's 125th anniversary in two years ' time . |
| 10 | He shook hands with the Scotland Yard man , who left to report progress to the one o'clock COBRA committee . |
| 11 | Almost as soon as he arrived at Highbury Chapman persuaded his chairman that the team needed Charlie Buchan , the long-shining star of Sunderland who , at thirty-four , was seen as the man to inspire and lend experience to the faltering Arsenal attack . |
| 12 | From the research which they commissioned into consumer attitudes Mintel concluded there were millions of people in Britain living in a fool 's paradise in the 1990s , continuing to borrow money to the very limit on credit cards , store cards , bank loans and mortgages , yet refusing to accept they were ‘ in debt ’ — mainly because of their ignorance of how money was borrowed and paid back . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | It is this evidence that led West to the cautious conclusion that ‘ it is reasonable to assume that in the nineteenth century education played some part in economic growth . ’ |
| 17 | Voters narrowly rejected this scheme , which would have devolved responsibility to the communal level of authority , and cut down on the amount of incineration . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 20 | These measures , collectively known as the Tory Reaction , meant that by 1685 the opposition alliance which had given rise to the first Whig party had largely crumbled . |
| 21 | The growth of international trade during the long post-war boom and the internationalization of production which have given rise to the new international division of labour occurred under a system where exchange rates were stable over long periods of time , and international finance was dominated by the US dollar , the US economy and Washington 's policies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The most probable outcome of all class struggles , according to this view , is civil war ; and it is the use of the term ‘ revolution ’ in this context by many Marxists , and by other radical thinkers , which has given rise to the close association in modern thought between the ideas of revolution and armed conflict . |
| 24 | At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation . |
| 25 | It would appear that duplications of type III repeats have given rise to the present group of type III repeats . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This in turn may have given rise to the high temperature metamorphism and calc-alkaline intrusions of the southern part of the Scottish Highlands and their prolongation in Ireland . |
| 29 | Various subsequent duplications have given rise to the so-called alpha , beta , gamma , delta , epsilon and zeta globins . |
| 30 | If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage . |