Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 2 | This gives an IR spectrum containing absorptions belonging to methane , ethane , ethylene and three new peaks assigned to the methyl radical . |
| 3 | According to the ministerial reasons given to the Bill this feature is supposed to be a profit-making company with substantial own financial resources solely consisting of corporate members and governed by the council of directors . |
| 4 | Yet where egg products exposed to the risk of contamination are involved , such as mayonnaise , the association is extraordinarily strong . |
| 5 | They all went into the nearest back-court , a circle was formed , the contestants stripped to the waist , then faced each other . |
| 6 | These multiple meanings given to the term community care result in a lack of precision and clarity . |
| 7 | The study will be based mainly on cases referred to the Child Sexual Abuse Unit of the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street but will collect other appropriate data . |
| 8 | In 60% of cases referred to the Remuneration Certificate procedure in February and March 1993 , solicitors had apparently not discussed with , or written to , clients about their charges at any stage before sending the bill . |
| 9 | The female servants at the bottom had their physical horizons limited to the house and their sexuality suppressed . |
| 10 | The nest boxes certainly increased the number of owls in the plantation and the owls responded to the squeeze by defending less rigid territories ; the researchers found that the ranges of pairs overlapped considerably . |
| 11 | Artists responded to the outbreak of two world wars in several ways . |
| 12 | Artists responded to the outbreak of two world wars in several ways . |
| 13 | American employers objected to the inclusion of working as a major life activity . |
| 14 | Little electricity , less newsprint , its operations confined to the basement : Susan Nickalls profiles the Sarajevo newspaper that won an award for outstanding service yesterday |
| 15 | Local authorities responded to the Act by concentrating more on special needs in their governor training programmes but produced relatively little written information for general distribution . |
| 16 | This continued until it was realized that the fairies objected to the site , and the church was then built on top of the hill , which satisfied the fairies . |
| 17 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 18 | In Ipswich the situation was more complex : as can be seen from Table 3.2 , as many as half the clients referred to the project actually received no service ; 19 of the 27 were in hospital at referral , usually having been admitted to the psychiatric hospital following their referral and domiciliary visit by the psychogeriatrician . |
| 19 | It had been a terrible few seconds until Dorcas 's eyes adjusted to the distance . |
| 20 | As her eyes adjusted to the darkness she saw that the dungeon was a fairly large open area , the light from the sconce barely reaching the furthest walls . |
| 21 | In his second tournament , Tshabalala , whose home was in Soweto , a group of black African townships situated to the south-west of Johannesburg , won the French Open at Le Touquet . |
| 22 | Particularly bad contamination with copper can arise from the use of ammonia solutions in vessels exposed to the air . |
| 23 | Slowly he stepped across to the terrace and gazed down at her with eyes so racked with pain that Ruth 's own eyes filled to the brim with her despair and lost love . |
| 24 | " See , " said her father , and putting his arm round her shoulders pointed to the south-west . |
| 25 | A lotus-eyed beauty , a grande horizontale with five fat address books filled to the brim with transcontinental names ! |
| 26 | He still had his biro gripped in his right hand and he was fiddling with it tensely , his brown , slightly almond-slitted eyes fallen to the table , unable to meet the directness of Ward 's gaze . |
| 27 | Resumption of publication was reportedly due partly to aid from the Russian government as part of emergency funds given to the press . |
| 28 | At the time of the contrasting attentions given to the ball at Lord 's in 1930 it was worth polishing it during only a few early overs . |
| 29 | The few words posted to the tree informed everyone that Lovat had been badly wounded and was now in hospital somewhere in England . |
| 30 | Police say a stolen lorry which had four foot long spikes welded to the back was probably going to be used in a ram raid . |