Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC .
2 The standard form analysed by Professor Tetley refers to the individual carrier 's contract of carriage as follows :
3 Mr Morse points to the ageing and unpleasant sanitary point where boat users dump their waste next to the town 's bus station .
4 Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence .
5 In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ’ .
9 Conversation with Zaccheus led to a radical change of heart and consequently of direction .
10 Peter Walker points to a recent case , and advises credit managers to keep their heads
11 Mr Mandela belongs to the royal family of the Tembu tribe .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 … ‘ .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics .
18 Norris : the poor man 's Schwarzenegger goes to the rich man 's convention
19 Molly moved to a high window someone had left open , fearing that the baby , to escape its pursuing sisters , might leap out .
20 In last Friday 's HAS Election Post a letter from M D Tubman referred to the 100-year-old British electoral system .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 The par-or-better rounds on Friday rose to the new heights of 54 and the average was further improved to 71.69 .
26 He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home .
27 KILDALTON AND OA Many people in Port Ellen adhered to the Free Church in 1843 , and a congregation was immediately formed , although some years elapsed before a minister was settled .
28 From the airport the Sadats and the Pahlavis drove to the Oberoi Hotel , which is secluded in a man-made island in the Nile .
29 Attempting to regain control of the already unstable situation [ see p. 37307 ] , 85-year-old President Félix Houphouët-Boigny appealed to the French government for military assistance , citing a 1961 agreement with the former colonial power .
30 In his own attempt to ‘ map ’ the origins of life onto the individual psyche , Freud came to an unsettling conclusion .
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