Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SNC agreed to issue an appeal to the UN Secretary-General proposing the quick dispatch of the first group of troops of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) . |
| 2 | The plaintiff agreed to lease a property to Lunnis , who assigned this equitable lease by way of mortgage . |
| 3 | On Doody 's death in 1706 , the Court of Apothecaries agreed to lease the garden to a joint stock of ninety subscribers , amongst whom Isaac Rand was prominent . |
| 4 | The government alleged Dr Siraj knew of a planned coup attempt by military officers and that , although he refused to take part , he failed to report the matter to the security services . |
| 5 | Durkheim sought to provide an answer to this question by demonstrating that society forms an integrated unity similar to that of living organisms . |
| 6 | The fourth book featured a scene in which a man planned to write a letter to his Father and Mother telling them of his new-found happiness , but he never could bring himself to write the letter . |
| 7 | The Supreme Privy Council , established during the reign of Peter 's widow Catherine I ( 1725–27 ) , sought to establish the right to participation in , and an effective veto over , all major policy decisions . |
| 8 | On Nov. 12 Israel agreed to accept a visit to Jerusalem by Jean-Claude Aimé as the envoy of the UN Secretary-General , on condition that Aimé would not use the opportunity of his visit for an investigation specifically directed to the Temple Mount killings . |
| 9 | Waldegrave said that the need to promote the public understanding of science would be addressed in the forthcoming White Paper ( policy document ) on science and technology and that he planned to launch a campaign to ‘ evangelize ’ science . |
| 10 | A Canavan free was floated into the square , where corner forward Stephen Ramsey rose to fist the ball to the net , leaving the scores at the break St Marys 1–6 UCG 0–3 . |
| 11 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 12 | As soon as the Reclusiarch moved to restore the mirror to its hook , the fluorescence of the amber faded . |
| 13 | Calling the tour a " complete success " , Li told embassy staff in Bangkok that the visit had raised China 's international prestige , strengthened understanding with ASEAN , and helped to promote a solution to the Cambodian problem . |
| 14 | He tried to scream a warning to his nightmare self : ‘ No , do n't go in there ! |
| 15 | The man , who was wearing a black balaclava tried to pull the boy to the ground , but he managed to struggle free . |
| 16 | Clearly he was asking a question , but the gutturals of the language he used bore no relationship to any form of speech which was in use in the Empire . |
| 17 | There was an air of disquiet , much muttering and whispering as they tried to find a solution to the problem facing them — a greater broad backed bookworm had been spotted . |
| 18 | Hurriedly the Maiden Guard of the Queen moved to meet the threat to their lady . |
| 19 | She tried to open the door to the storage-room , but twice the wind blew it out of her hands . |
| 20 | He moved to open the door to the hall . |
| 21 | Twice the trainer tried to sell the horse to the Seagram company and twice they refused . |
| 22 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 23 | Hodge had pursued policies from his arrival in Korea designed to strengthen the opposition to communism and to move away from rather than towards cooperation with the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | In Berlin William II interfered repeatedly with the conduct of German diplomacy in a way which helped to conceal the extent to which his effective authority in many areas was ebbing away . |
| 25 | It was work completed in Alaska which helped provide a clue to the nature of the problem at BA-1 , explains head of production technology Lindsay Brown . |
| 26 | Most ancient silver was extracted from argentiferous ( silver-rich ) lead by cupellation , a process dating back to at least the second millennium BC , which involved oxidising the lead to molten litharge ( lead oxide ) , leaving the relatively unreactive silver as the metal . |
| 27 | Last month a shaken state government banned the sale of booze in the district , and promised to extend the ban to neighbouring areas . |
| 28 | The full seven bands of image data were loaded into an ERDAS ( Earth Resources Data Analysis System ) software system and ground control point information entered to rectify the image to National Grid coordinates . |
| 29 | Deputies of the Assembly of South Vietnam proposed sending a deputation to Hanoi , and Nguyen Xuan Oanh , acting Premier of South Vietnam during 1964 — 5 , praised him in the Assembly as a Vietnamese hero : one who might be called an Asian Tito . |
| 30 | Furthermore , ‘ nationally prescribed tests ’ would be administered at each of the age levels mentioned to determine the extent to which the prescribed targets had been achieved . |