Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 2 | The bitter brew , more than 140 years old and known to regulars as Pink Guinness , is a secret mix of tinctures and extracts topped with an effervescent tablet . |
| 3 | But at other times , as we also know , people can be remarkably altruistic and committed to others . |
| 4 | Mary Tudor rode to London in order to claim the throne and with the intention of reinstating the Roman Catholic Church , but the fact that she was married to Philip of Spain and wished to make him King of England , was also not acceptable and led to hostility in London . |
| 5 | Counselling is concerned with coping mechanisms which may be related to physical health problems , or may be personal and linked to relationships , or sociocultural issues including spiritual beliefs , or may be linked to economic difficulties . |
| 6 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 7 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 8 | On 1 May 1917 he was diagnosed as neurasthenic and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital , Slateford , near Edinburgh , to recuperate . |
| 9 | Next morning he was found comatose and taken to hospital . |
| 10 | If Olwyn did not go of her own accord she was taken , undressed and washed and put to bed forcibly . |
| 11 | At his trial for acting with Waddell in the murder of Mrs Chipperfield , Gentle was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 12 | At their trial in Pristina in February 1989 , all were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 13 | He was found guilty and sentenced to death , and , after his appeal to the House of Lords was rejected , he was hanged at Wandsworth prison 3 January 1946 . |
| 14 | It is produced in English , French and Spanish and mailed to AMARC members in 120 countries . |
| 15 | How our love-child , Robin , had been captured at sea by the Spanish and taken to Madrid . |
| 16 | And one of the electricians , a seemingly healthy man , was suddenly taken ill and rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack . |
| 17 | He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed . |
| 18 | On 8 May 1914 he attended a meeting of the BB executive in London but was taken ill and admitted to St Bartholomew 's Hospital , where he died 10 May 1914 . |
| 19 | I probably , homework , because her daughter was dying or something and she , her daughter was quite seriously ill and taken to hospital , so we just had Miss so we were n't given any homework for that |
| 20 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 21 | The authorization was brief and addressed to Tweed . |
| 22 | The cultural order of stages , however , is determined by the sequence in which these gratifications were frustrated and subjected to inhibition . |
| 23 | The process of abstraction of reality produces the ‘ phantoms formed in the human brain' which are also ‘ necessarily , sublimates of their material life process ’ but which in turn are most significantly ‘ empirically verifiable and bound to material premises ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 47 ) . |
| 24 | He was in for three hours 40 minutes all told , an hour longer than any other West Indian managed , and gave only one chance , a difficult caught and bowled to Meyrick Pringle when 59 . |
| 25 | Lara and Arthurton raised West Indian hopes with a left-handed partnership of 52 for the fourth wicket but both were undone by Donald 's speed in the final session and the match seemed all but signed , sealed and delivered to South Africa entering the rest day . |
| 26 | Polanski was also known to some of the Hollywood crowd through its inter-connection with the swingers of London and the skiing crowd who populated Gstaad and Aspen , notably his friendship of one of the men at the hub of the English scene , Victor Lownes , the cool , urbane and towering figure whom Hugh Hefner had appointed vice president of Playboy International and despatched to London to oversee the new playboy Club in Park Lane . |
| 27 | Two of them had died young , one of Lewis 's aunts had married and gone to America , the other two had remained spinsters , living as many unmarried women in the country used to do , in tiny cottages in the middle of a village , busy in a mouse-like way about parochial matters , having no youth , earning nothing , buried alive . |
| 28 | Detective Sergeant Chris Warren of Southampton police fuelled the mystery further when he said : ‘ My information is that a London footballer was knocked unconscious and taken to hospital . ’ |
| 29 | When the stockings were completed they were both wide and long and shrunk to size on wooden boards . |
| 30 | As memos are often short and written to others within the same organisation , the style that a memo is written in is not thought to matter . |