Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 3 | The standard form analysed by Professor Tetley refers to the individual carrier 's contract of carriage as follows : |
| 4 | Mr Morse points to the ageing and unpleasant sanitary point where boat users dump their waste next to the town 's bus station . |
| 5 | Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence . |
| 6 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 7 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 8 | Keith Curle drops to the standby list along with Wright , Paul Parker is unavailable because of suspension , while out of form Aston Villa winger Tony Daley is dropped . |
| 9 | Only once was a jarring note struck , and that was when Roger referred to the long room leading out of the kitchen as the ‘ museum ’ . |
| 10 | Conversation with Zaccheus led to a radical change of heart and consequently of direction . |
| 11 | Peter Walker points to a recent case , and advises credit managers to keep their heads |
| 12 | Mr Mandela belongs to the royal family of the Tembu tribe . |
| 13 | The assassination of Kashmir 's leading Moslem cleric in mid-May led to a serious deterioration in the security situation in the Kashmir Valley after weeks of relative calm . |
| 14 | Soering applied to the European Commission of Human Rights on the grounds that there was a serious likelihood that if he were extradited to the United States he would be executed . |
| 15 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |
| 16 | In support of the National Gallery 's case Mr Vlnas points to a 1946 agreement signed between Slovak officials and the gallery exchanging the altar for 380 prints , ten Gothic paintings , and twelve Gothic statues . |
| 17 | WASIM AKRAM grabbed six wickets to send Surrey crashing to a 96-run defeat at The Oval to set Lancashire up for their Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final at Leicestershire today . |
| 18 | Long after nationalization of the pits , the end of the butty system , and the handing-over of the colliery company villages to the NCB , it seems , there was a coalfield culture in Nottinghamshire ( especially the Dukeries ) which differed substantially in its politics — Waller ( 1983 , p. 130 ) refers to ‘ the lack of conventional industrial and political organization in the new mines [ which ] provides one more example of the challenge the coalfield of the Dukeries offers to the established view of mining life and community . |
| 19 | The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics . |
| 20 | Norris : the poor man 's Schwarzenegger goes to the rich man 's convention |
| 21 | Today , there is a small octagonal chapel in the Beirut coastal suburb of Antelyas dedicated to the 1915 massacres . |
| 22 | Molly moved to a high window someone had left open , fearing that the baby , to escape its pursuing sisters , might leap out . |
| 23 | In last Friday 's HAS Election Post a letter from M D Tubman referred to the 100-year-old British electoral system . |
| 24 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 25 | It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent . |
| 26 | Over and again eye-witnesses at Verdun testify to the curious sensation of having been in the line twice , three times , without ever having seen an enemy infantryman . |
| 27 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 28 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 29 | The par-or-better rounds on Friday rose to the new heights of 54 and the average was further improved to 71.69 . |
| 30 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |