Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the outset of the march , the demonstrators observed a different route to that notified to the police . |
| 2 | One of the most important of the many articles manufactured in this shop are the steel carriage springs , each of which is submitted to a test quite as severe as that applied to the guns in Woolwich Arsenal , before it is sent out to administer to the comfort of the travelling public , the test chiefly consisting in the dropping of heavy weights upon the springs . |
| 3 | This applied to the courts , and 6000 citizens so chosen had to be available for jury service during each year . |
| 4 | Moldavia 's President Mircha Snegur on Oct. 22 appealed to the Gagauzes to cancel the elections , but on Oct. 23 the government raised tensions by ordering the formation of voluntary patrols " to maintain public order and stabilize the socio-political situation " . |
| 5 | to offer to the holders of ordinary shares of £1 each in the capital of the Company ( ‘ Ordinary Shares ’ ) the right to elect to receive an allotment of new Ordinary Shares , credited as fully paid , in lieu of all or part of the final cash dividend in respect of the financial year of the Company ended on 31st March 1993 in all respects in such manner as may be determined by the directors on the basis and subject to the conditions of the circular dated 21st June 1993 sent to the members of the Company by the Company and , in particular , such that the aggregate nominal value of the new Ordinary Shares which such holders may elect to receive may exceed the aggregate cash dividend which they would otherwise be entitled to receive ; and |
| 6 | Of the 7,144,884 registered voters 6,592,441 went to the polls , representing a turnout of 92 per cent — voting was theoretically compulsory . |
| 7 | This extended to the headboards of the bed , the ashtray , the mirror-frame and anything else with a paintable surface , including the milk-churns and cartwheels which littered the hallway . |
| 8 | This suggested to the investigators that there may be a special interaction between genetic predisposition for schizophrenia , and pregnancy and delivery complications ( Mednick et al. , 1981a ) . |
| 9 | In November 1251 Henry III granted to the men of Archenfield in Herefordshire freedom from the Forest jurisdiction , and in the next year he ordered the sheriff : |
| 10 | The terms in which it expressed this decision are to be found in a letter dated 23 October 1991 addressed to the plaintiffs ' solicitors and written by Mr. A. D. Farries , a principal in the Crown Prosecutor Fraud Investigation Group . |
| 11 | Thirteen went to the wars in Canada from my village , four came back . |
| 12 | They did not surrender to them as Louis XV and Louis XVI did to the opponents of monarchical power . |
| 13 | The Bourgeois revolutions of 1905 and 1917 seemed to the optimists a natural development on the Russian road to a Western style constitutional state . |
| 14 | Just over half of the 97,000 tons of English coastal shipping in 1709 belonged to the ports of Scarborough , Whitby , Newcastle , Yarmouth and King 's Lynn — fishing , coal and corn . |
| 15 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 16 | When the Emperor Frederick II appealed to the cardinals to convoke a general council of prelates and other faithful in Christ to judge him , he must have had in mind Innocent 's council of nearly a quarter of a century earlier . |
| 17 | The Rent Act 1957 added to the problems . |
| 18 | The Baltic Council had on Jan. 5 appealed to the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) to withdraw the troops , but to leave the military hardware for the Baltic States to form their own militaries . |
| 19 | Many came to the women 's movement from backgrounds where the state was viewed as an instrument for enacting their own class specific demands . |
| 20 | The waiting silence was broken by , ‘ I 'd say the train is leaving Carrick now , ’ and they all went to the fields behind the house to catch a glimpse of the train as it passed . |
| 21 | One afternoon we all went to the baths . |
| 22 | The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies — |
| 23 | Results showed that 95 per cent of the registered electorate of 193,800 went to the polls and that 90 per cent of these voted " to remain part of Yugoslavia with Serbia and Montenegro and others who want to preserve Yugoslavia " . |
| 24 | Some 86 per cent of the electorate of 35,000 went to the polls . |
| 25 | About 85 per cent of the electorate of 1,692,000 went to the polls , all those aged 18 and over being eligible to vote . |
| 26 | Between February 1950 ( when the electorate returned the Labour Government with a barely adequate majority ) and October 1951 ( when Labour went to the polls again and were defeated ) , the confidence and authority of Gaitskell , as of his Government , withered . |
| 27 | When we first went to the concerts |
| 28 | Paragraphs 1 , 2 , 3 and 8 corresponded to the headings and description of the matters of complaint originally contained in paragraphs 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 of Part II to Schedule 12 . |
| 29 | Items in three contexts in particular led to the girls consistently obtaining equal or higher success rates than the boys in the sample . |
| 30 | Approached by American conspirators , such as Aaron Burr , who sought British aid in their plots of disunion , Merry listened to the plotters but never abetted them . |