Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marquess was arrested at his flat in west London on Tuesday and taken to prison for failing to pay the maintenance arrears within the stipulated two weeks . |
| 2 | For nine years she was a postwoman in Berkshire and used to cycle 18 miles a day . |
| 3 | If the product was made in the United States and brought to France before being brought to England , then the person who imported it into France is liable . |
| 4 | Janet 's marrow sample was flown to Oslo and given to Mona in a blood transfusion . |
| 5 | Victory on Majed , Fishki , Wellwotdouthink , Ambuscade and Programmed To Win , by an aggregate of 41 lengths and at accumulated odds of 43–1 , boosted Niven 's tally for the season to 32 . |
| 6 | The ‘ law ’ of natural evolution or development , especially when popularized by Herbert Spencer and applied to society , was said to parallel traditional Christian reliance on Divine Providence and meant that the expansion of Nonconformity at home and the extraordinary growth of British power and influence abroad could be seen as part of the same phenomenon . |
| 7 | After achieving only 12 per cent in Colorado and less in every other contest , Kerrey cancelled his scheduled appearance in Florida and returned to Washington DC to " reassess " his campaign . |
| 8 | A day was thus taken away from February and transferred to August . |
| 9 | In a very human example of technology transfer , children at several hospitals in the UK and abroad have had unsightly birthmarks ( sometimes called ‘ port-wine stains ’ ) treated by a new laser system developed by AEA and licensed to SLS Ltd . |
| 10 | Last week I received three letters from her all addressed to the Commando area in the South of England and forwarded to Normandy . |
| 11 | Steve Harris , a director who joined Medeva soon after Taylor , had experience of OTC and explained to Chemistry in Britain the rationale for this decision . |
| 12 | The grain neutral spirit required for the majority of the gin production is now distilled at Cameronbridge in Scotland and transported to Laindon . |
| 13 | The missing keys to the boat house and to the Princess had been the clue , spotted by Pete and reported to Ross Aldridge in a phonecall when Ted was out of earshot . |
| 14 | The castle was believed to be impregnable but after seven days it was taken on 6 July and restored to Constantine de Born . |
| 15 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 16 | ‘ Job-lots ’ of bodies were bought in Ireland and imported to Glasgow labelled ‘ Tea ’ . |
| 17 | But if the support for the SNP was , like the Liberal vote , a substantially ‘ cross-class ’ phenomenon it can not so easily be categorised as a flight from ‘ class ’ as pertinent social collectivity , since it must be recognised that the ‘ national distinctiveness ’ of Scotland is overdetermined by the differential balance of classes in Scotland as opposed to England . |
| 18 | Prudence as opposed to boldness now seemed the keyword . |
| 19 | The day after , General de Gaulle cut short his visit to Rumania and returned to Paris ; by then two million workers were on strike , 120 factories occupied ; within three days 250 factories were occupied , and eight million on strike . |
| 20 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 21 | She was also mightily relieved when I gave up wearing sweaters on TV-am and reverted to jacket and tie . |
| 22 | Professor Anthony Cordesman , a key adviser to President Bush , said : ‘ Parts made by Matrix Churchill and sent to Iraq contributed towards attempts by Baghdad to build a nuclear weapon . ’ |
| 23 | These cattle are illegal immigrants , injected with foot and mouth vaccine in Czechoslovakia and sent to England with falsified papers . |
| 24 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
| 25 | Also of interest is a memorial printed in 1611 by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros and addressed to King Phillip III of Spain . |
| 26 | MICHAEL WATSON 'S World Boxing Association world middleweight title challenge against the Jamaican , Mike McCallum , has been brought forward to 29 November and switched to Alexandra Palace . |
| 27 | ‘ I climbed out of Blackpool and changed to Warton , who gave me transponder code and climb clearance to 3,000 feet — just below the cloudbase . |
| 28 | This afternoon to the Commons and talked to Frank Barlow , the Secretary of the PLP , who told me in detail the arrangements that had been made in the event of Harold Wilson dying . |
| 29 | It will be returned to Great Ormond Street on Monday and given to Carly , probably through a drip . |
| 30 | On one occasion Wallace rode daringly down upon Scone and put to flight an English justiciar who was busily pronouncing outlawry upon anyone who refused to swear loyalty to Edward . |