Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , disputes between France and the rest over institutional , political and economic plans grew to the extent where they called into question not just the desirability and possibility of the ultimate goal of political union , but also the current shape and even the viability of the Community . |
| 2 | That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 3 | In the 1890s about 60 per cent of European emigrants went to the United States , but this proportion tended to drop while South America 's share grew steadily . |
| 4 | The regional award went to the Northern region — for its good programme of events , good communications and for tackling difficult issues . |
| 5 | The publication of a book by a private citizen led to the breaking-off of diplomatic relations . |
| 6 | The Arundel-trained colt came to the course having shown up so well on his home gallops that he held a Royal Ascot date . |
| 7 | Strong opposition remained to the growth of state interference . |
| 8 | Labour candidates looked to the record of reform . |
| 9 | The fancy taste for ornaments and trinkets displayed by these peculiar birds appealed to the Victorian dilettante . |
| 10 | The worst thing the old politburocracy did to the Czechs and Slovaks was to require them to ‘ live lies ’ because the truth did n't fit the pseudo-history which was supposed to legitimize Brezhnev 's satraps . |
| 11 | These are in erm in a social contract ceded to the body politic as a whole . |
| 12 | In social research , perhaps the most famous example is that of Elton Mayo 's study of American girls in a factory , where his observations of the importance of the creation of social groups led to the development of a whole school of thought in social psychology . |
| 13 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 14 | As the old pensioner listened to the song , which was now accompanied by the ringing of bells , Fleury saw an expression of tender devotion come over his lined face , and he , too , thought , as the Collector had thought some weeks earlier in the tiger house , what a lot of Indian life was unavailable to the Englishman who came equipped with his own religion and habits . |
| 15 | In spite of the fact that one brave Hurricane came to the rescue ( Jessop ) , the Maryland was soon on fire in one engine , and the rear gunner ( Sgt. J. Levy ) killed by a cannon shell in the chest . |
| 16 | It is argued that specific policies implemented at the outset of British rule led to the development of a judicial system which did not coincide with either British or indigenous notions of justice but which was none the less compatible with local culture . |
| 17 | On the Tuesday our proper visits began to the surrounding area . |
| 18 | Experience the underground atmosphere of a real Victorian mine in this exciting museum devoted to the history and practice of ironstone mining in East Cleveland . |
| 19 | His loud , clear laugh resounded to the corniced height of the room . |
| 20 | An outcrop of white rock from the steep hillside seemed to the children as tall as a cliff . |
| 21 | Braverman ( 1974 ) argues that scientific management and the work of individuals such as F. W. Taylor , that we looked at in an earlier chapter , encouraged the development of the control of the worker by management and that the transformation of work advocated by scientific management led to the de-skilling and to the degradation of the worker . |
| 22 | A similar willingness to perform radical treatment for breast cancer in the absence of evidence from randomised trials led to the misguided mutilation of thousands of women by radical mastectomy . |
| 23 | The old man went into one wing of the workhouse and the old girl went to the other . |
| 24 | The resulting public outcry led to the closure of the bank in October 1991 , and to the establishment of an inquiry by the House ethics committee . |
| 25 | In an attempt to revive the UN plan the Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas and the French Minister-Delegate attached to the Foreign Affairs Ministry , Edwige Avice , planned to visit Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , at the beginning of February to urge Vietnamese support for an agreement . |
| 26 | In an attempt to revive the deadlocked UN peace plan [ see p. 37712 ] , the Indonesian Foreign Minister , Ali Alatas , and the French Minister-Delegate attached to the Foreign Affairs Ministry , Edwige Avice ( co-chairs of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia — PICC ) , visited Vietnam in early February . |
| 27 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 28 | This year 's top awards went to the Tramway Museum Society at Crich , Derbyshire for their work on the rebuilt cast iron span of the Bowes-Lyon bridge , the British Rail Property Board and Craft-Kind Ltd for the Cathedral Arches pub and restaurant conversion in Salford . |
| 29 | Social workers went to the primary school in St Margaret 's Hope , a brand new open-plan building , and removed them from there in front of the other children . |
| 30 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |