Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , as we discussed previously , even if primary productivity were to have increased , unless the increase was supported by nutrients external to the ocean , or led to depletion of the excess nutrients in the upper ocean , the effect on the drawdown of anthropogenic CO 2 would be insignificant . |
| 2 | Incremental — only transfer information which has been modified or added to LIFESPAN since the last transfer for that type |
| 3 | Now in the eyes of the law , they have committed a crime , but if you put that situation before a jury , and even though the judge may instruct the jury , a crime has been committed , you must find them guilty , the jury 's inclination will probably be to say , natural justice , you , that you you done what was required of you , that you do n't deserve to be either convicted or sent to prison for it . |
| 4 | Me , who never read a clock or went to work in my life . |
| 5 | In the early 1960s the king became a major actor in the events that led to independence for his country in 1968 . |
| 6 | She said she 'd rather have had some lilac bathsalts , the sort that crumpled to silk in the water . |
| 7 | It was a christening that seemed to hunger for significance . |
| 8 | It does indeed seem that the taboo on wives working was still operating among the generation that came to maturity at the time of the Great War . |
| 9 | The latest Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society resolves a question that came to light in the days of Lord Rayleigh , who showed how an idealised object called a black body radiates heat and light energy . |
| 10 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 11 | What he does seem to mind — and what even the most arbitrary-seeming , the most ludic , of his ironic and erotic diversions and excursions show that he minds — is the regime that came to power in his native country after the revolution of 1948 . |
| 12 | And not content with an immensely complicated system of direct taxation , the Conservative government that came to power in 1970 gave us value added tax — heralded at the time as ‘ a simple tax ’ . |
| 13 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 14 | " The flower girl " ( Pygmalion ) was the first book that came to mind for one very elderly survivor . " |
| 15 | The legions lived on cabbage and polenta and wine that turned to vinegar with the shaking up it got . |
| 16 | Both showed cytolytic activity towards B lymphoblastoid cell lines ( BCL ) with HLA-B53 when incubated with the ls6 peptide , but not when incubated with the peptides that bound to HLA-B53 from the other three pre-erythrocytic antigens . |
| 17 | Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move , and now the flukey play is cramped and slow , a dream of constraint and cross-purpose , with each move forced , all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged … |
| 18 | and we did n't think , and sort of , then we realized that had to sort of like turn it off and that might help a bit , but boiling water , we 're trying to stop it with our finger . |
| 19 | We report a case of gold induced enterocolitis complicated by cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) infection that responded to treatment with intravenous gangcyclovir . |
| 20 | The principal cause of the problem , however , was fertilizer run-XXXX off , which contaminated groundwater and led to eutrophication of surface water . |
| 21 | The 11 sufferers identified in the study said the smell blighted their relationships with the opposite sex , wrecked promotion prospects at work and led to addiction to cigarettes , alcohol and drugs . |
| 22 | Just about the time that Dougie started er building substantially in the town and doubled to population to its present six and a half thousand or so . |
| 23 | Pennethorne submitted four alternative schemes with costs on 31st August , 1855 , which were then revised and resubmitted to Hall on 14th September , when one scheme was chosen . |
| 24 | In JMD and JMB 's absence — mail written in JMB 's mail book and passed to GWM/MAR/CMG for advice . |
| 25 | He pulled his wings back for speed , leaned into the wind to gain maximum drive and stooped down upon them , the air thunderous in his wings as , with talons thrust forward , he thumped the first straight to its death among the wet beach rocks and tore at the other viciously before it squawked and fled to safety in the shadows of the cliff . |
| 26 | Largely as a result of machinations and pressure by the king of France , the Order of Knights Templar was subjected to papal scrutiny in 1308 and condemned to dissolution in 1312 . |
| 27 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 28 | The suspension bridge across the estuary of the River Conwy was built by Telford ( q.v. ) and opened to traffic in 1826 . |
| 29 | " I 'll show you what 's next , " he thought , and turned to Cassowary with his sweetest smile . |
| 30 | Once away from the gym and the deadening influence of the Butcher we felt released and began to caper along the corridor to the next lesson . |