Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was officially stated that 47 per cent of the members of the new central committee were aged under 49 , that four of them were women and that 41 per cent had received education to university level . |
| 2 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
| 3 | Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services . |
| 4 | A two-day visit to Lagos in late December 1989 by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) Managing Director Michel Camdessus had given rise to speculation that the Fund would soon agree to further financing facilities [ for 1989 standby arrangement see p. 37140 ] . |
| 5 | The previous day 's drizzle had given way to sun and wind . |
| 6 | I spoke calmly since now revulsion had given way to hopelessness . |
| 7 | Up in the dome , the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige : the weather was right , apparently . |
| 8 | With Gibbons , he wrote , oak had given way to limewood and earthbound solidity to feats of impossible lightness . |
| 9 | At the end of the nineteenth century the verdict of the legal philosopher Dicey was that laissez-faire had given way to collectivism ; that government had begun to assume a role in society that had taken Britain well on the way to becoming a socialist state . |
| 10 | He also perceived that monotony could be relieved by transposition of material , a foreshadowing of the key-schemes that would be possible when modality had given way to tonality . |
| 11 | When the light and warmth of the fire had given way to smoke , they put on their shoes and wandered homeward through the silent village and the frosty starlit night . |
| 12 | By 1962 , steam engines had given way to diesel locomotives and practically the whole of the system 's signalling had been renewed . |
| 13 | Then , after that humiliation , he had added insult to injury by saying she 'd be perfectly safe with him ! |
| 14 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 15 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 16 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 17 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 18 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 19 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
| 20 | Now , coiled here , she thought it was not Phoebe 's fault , it was the dullness of being an adult ; it was the natural flavour of the world once one had said goodbye to childhood . |
| 21 | We had said goodbye to GCSE options and we were on course . |
| 22 | The ballet 's most notable virtue , widely remarked upon in the reviews , was the sensitivity with which John had matched movement to music . |
| 23 | Amnesty issues a press release denying contact between it and kidnappers of the Swiss Ambassador to Brazil , following reports that a German magazine had offered money to Amnesty to publish the article . |
| 24 | At work , given that , despite her de glamorisation , she had had cause to cold-shoulder one Lothario from Purchasing and another from Sales who had been fresh beyond what she thought acceptable , she was quite contented with her lot . |
| 25 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 26 | The bails remained on , but umpire Chris King raised his finger , indicating Border had got bat to ball . |
| 27 | Executive circulars on 9 and 22 April had drawn attention to Conference and Executive decisions against Party members co-operating with or speaking from the same platform as members of the Communist Party . |
| 28 | Inequity and deprivation had brought Marxism to birth . |
| 29 | Lawrence 's ‘ emotional dislocation of a ‘ mothercomplex ’ , discussed by Murry , was picked up by Eliot in 1931 , shortly after he had resisted return to childhood at the end of Ash-Wednesday ; in the same year he analysed Coriolanus 's infantilism and his ‘ Mother mother ’ . |
| 30 | Among the organizations which had put pen to paper were the Farmers Union of Wales , the Somerset Community Health Council and the regional Youth Hostels Association . |