Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We all feared this might happen and now it has come to the worst , ’ said one church-goer arriving for the service . |
| 32 | The distinctive nature of the ends is reinforced by the fact that the occupants are often physically con fined to the particular area for the whole of the football match . |
| 33 | But Scotland has added to the disastrous image in the most masochistic ways . |
| 34 | No past rival of Western democracies , not even Hitler 's Germany , has presented to the outside world a more opaque image of policy-making than has the USSR , and in no sphere does this arouse greater confusion and concern than defence policy . |
| 35 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 36 | The mother has written to the European Court of Human Rights in a bid to win back her child . |
| 37 | The department has written to the dental schools at Liverpool , Newcastle , Birmingham and Manchester and the London Hospital to canvass their support for becoming centres for the evaluation of new dental materials . |
| 38 | Coun Phil Hughes , chairman of the town 's Citizens Advice Bureau , has written to the general manager of Durham county ambulance service , Ken Threlfall , about the delay after the incident outside his office . |
| 39 | Gould has threatened to take legal action and has written to the Prime Minister claiming his civil liberties were infringed . |
| 40 | Shadow Scottish Secretary George Robertson has written to the Prime Minister saying that Scots would be outraged if Northern Ireland got elected an Assembly and Scotland did n't . |
| 41 | A seven year old schoolboy has written to the Prime Minister complaining about education cuts . |
| 42 | WACC 's Latin American/Caribbean Regional Association ( WACC-LA/C ) has written to the military regime in Haiti condemning the imposition of press censorship and the persecution of journalists since the overthrow of the country 's democratic government in September by military coup . |
| 43 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators urging that awards made by arbitrators should enable investors to escape their debt completely , ie to pay off the whole of their outstanding loan , which will otherwise ‘ roll up ’ on a daily basis , in some cases leading to repossession . |
| 44 | CARL PREAN has written to the English Table Tennis Association asking to be omitted from future ranking lists because of the way they are determined . |
| 45 | That is why the Department has written to the Northern region saying in effect , ’ We hope you will take account of our reservations in the next year 's allocations , either in the formula or in tempering the pace of change where you have yet to satisfy yourselves and us that the adjustment you propose is entirely reliable . ’ |
| 46 | Dr Michael Foxley , regional councillor for Mallaig , Ardnamurchan and the Small Isles , has written to the Scottish Office 's local government finance group expressing ‘ great concern ’ at the effect the 50 per cent discount on second homes might have . |
| 47 | I do n't believe that the Secretary of State has need to call it in and indeed Mr Curry has written to the local Member of Parliament saying his mind is still open but on the information he had in October he does not think that these that this application raises issues of more than local importance . |
| 48 | He has written to the local Labour MP , Irene Adams , the Labour Party 's Scottish hierarchy and the Prime Minister on the matter , all without success . |
| 49 | Anyway , there was promotion in it : when we next come across him , less than a year later , he has risen to the giddy heights of master , taking over from William Cox . |
| 50 | Snell has suggested that this sense of right was sufficiently marked to make expectations from the Poor Law part of the " moral economy " which Edward Thompson has applied to the poor 's expectation that corn would be sold to them at " just " prices . |
| 51 | Meanwhile , the largest indoor oceanarium in the world , the John G Shedd in Chicago , which is keen to begin captive breeding of belugas , has applied to the American authorities for an import licence for Brightness . |
| 52 | The agency has applied to the Scottish Office for permission to erect a barrier across the mouth of the dock which is used by local fishermen to unload their catches and berth their boats . |
| 53 | The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes . |
| 54 | As expected ( UX No 385 ) , Sun Microsystems Inc , through its SunSoft Inc software subsidiary , has bowed to the inevitable and accepted the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment , DCE , which it will support under Solaris 2.0 , its forthcoming Unix SVR4 implementation , via Solaris Federated Services . |
| 55 | The Grosvenor Gallery , Eric Estorick 's famous gallery which , in recent years , has been operating from offices in South Moulton Street , has moved to the spacious premises vacated by the Albemarle Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 56 | Simon Greenwood has been appointed chief editor at Quiller Press , succeeding Giles Mandelbrote , who has moved to the Historical Manuscripts Royal Commission |
| 57 | These are dying communities whose youth has moved to the prosperous South ; requests are therefore those associated with old age . |
| 58 | Schwartz has turned to the American Deep South for its third new seasoning . |
| 59 | In a further attempt to save Heveningham Hall for the nation ( see The Art Newspaper No. 14 , January 1992 , p.4 ) the Suffolk Building Preservation Society has turned to the National Heritage Memorial Fund , now under the chairmanship of Lord Rothschild . |
| 60 | British Rail has turned to the privately-owned North York Moors steam railway at Pickering instead of Brel workshops to repaint six carriages in the colours of Regional Railways . |