Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became Clerk to the Governors after Ellis 's death in 1957 , a Governor in 1962 when Gilchrist was appointed Bursar and Clerk , Vice Chairman in 1973 , and Chairman on the retirement of Lt. Col. Christie-Miller in 1975 . |
| 2 | They had three sons : one became clerk to the Goldsmiths ’ Company , one an entomologist , and the third was killed in the war of 1914–18 . |
| 3 | The refusal of foreign-owned oil companies operating in Chile to handle Soviet crude lent weight to the arguments of nationalists who wanted to accept the Soviet offer , which was heatedly debated in the Chilean Congress for two years before the incoming elected conservative government of Alessandri felt strong enough to reject it . |
| 4 | Certainly he was determined to dissociate the United States from any settlement which made concessions to the communists . |
| 5 | In his absence the regents made concessions to the magnates in return for grants of taxes in aid of the war with Scotland . |
| 6 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 7 | Kuwait government and the people of Kuwait provided assistance to the Palestinians all over the world , including the Palestinians living in occupied land . |
| 8 | He shouted directions to the boarders , and , when they were ignored , he shouted contrary orders . |
| 9 | But the rest of Frolik 's information was not particularly valuable except in that it convinced the CIA that Britain 's Labour Party was riddled with Communist sympathisers and thus untrustworthy , and helped lead to the suspicions against Prime Minister Harold Wilson . |
| 10 | They drew attention to the distances involved and the communication problem for islanders visiting the mainland . |
| 11 | They drew attention to the difficulties of knowing which local authority was responsible for a particular service — especially in the county areas . |
| 12 | Second , and more fundamentally , they drew attention to the difficulties of finding a satisfactory measure of performance in statistical terms . |
| 13 | I first drew attention to the shortcomings of this edition in 1981 I was not the first to suspect it : as long ago as 1964 Sir Charles Mackerras , in preparing Castor et Pollux for a BBC broadcast , became suspicious of some of the scoring , went over to Paris to inspect the sources for himself , and made some extensive last-minute changes . |
| 14 | As we noted in Chapter 2 , James Caird , writing in 1878 , drew attention to the differences between the agriculture practised in the predominantly pastoral North and West of England and that in the mainly arable South and East , a division which affected the organization and conditions of village life in the two regions . |
| 15 | Mining Awareness produced a leaflet that drew attention to the problems of blasting , dust , chemicals , silting , erosion , water supply , pollution of the area and waste disposal problems associated with gold mining . |
| 16 | He drew attention to the words ‘ unless otherwise negotiated ’ . |
| 17 | There has been interest in the potential role of M paratuberculosis in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease since Dalziel first drew attention to the similarities between Johne 's disease in cattle and granulomatous enteritis in man ( Crohn 's disease ) . |
| 18 | Dyson ( 1986 ) , for example , drew attention to the ways in which professionals ' confidential files often contain materials contributing to the social stereotyping of children and their families . |
| 19 | His published analysis of the cholera cases he attended during the 1832 epidemic drew attention to the correlations between disease and environment ( in particular the habitations , principally in cellars and courts , of the poor ) . |
| 20 | The petition drew attention to the events in Orkney and the way in which the case had been managed ; it asked the Prime Minister , John Major , to hold a public judicial inquiry into all the circumstances , It asked , too , for the working of Orkney 's Social Work Department , and other involved Social Work Departments , to be investigated . |
| 21 | He was a sound critic , with a phenomenal knowledge of twentieth-century novels and films ; he contributed reviews to the Times Literary Supplement and other papers , and parodies to Punch ( collected in The Funny Bone , 1956 ) . |
| 22 | The desire to get land to cultivate as a farmer and proprietor or simply to get work as a landless labourer drew people to the islands in large numbers . |
| 23 | If they found access to the books was easier I am sure they would use them much more . |
| 24 | In my discussions with the principal I made reference to the words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 19 v.4 and Mark 10 v.6 . |
| 25 | It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies . |
| 26 | Assume further that the loose goods caused damage to a vulnerable vessel structure , which damage , in turn , caused damage to the goods themselves . |
| 27 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |
| 28 | The Chief Constable of the RUC added confusion to the parades policy by announcing that he would permit an Orange church parade on the Sunday before the Twelfth to pass through the Tunnel because it would be a ‘ peaceful , dignified , church parade ’ but insisted that the Twelfth march had to be re-routed . |
| 29 | With the best nine scores counting , Aberdeen amassed 272pts to the visitors ' 238pts . |
| 30 | The integration of the specialist colleges of art into larger institutions like polytechnics also aroused apprehensions which added fuel to the flames . |