Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When 5,000 miners tried to march in protest to the capital last August , troops halted them , the government declared a state of siege and workers ' leaders were arrested under emergency powers . |
| 2 | Wellington 's face seemed to shudder in reaction to the stench of powder , blood , sweat and crushed grass that wafted from Sharpe 's uniform . |
| 3 | Their eyes migrated from the sides of their heads ( where their cousins still keep them ) , to look forward with acute stereoscopic vision , and their brains began to mushroom in proportion to their body-weight . |
| 4 | The England striker 's 20 goals have brightened his club 's otherwise moderate campaign which at one stage threatened to end in relegation to the Second Division . |
| 5 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 6 | Er my Lord it 's rather a complicated of transaction and the the essential heading this case was that he failed to advise in relation to title er the person who goes from with respect to a land transaction he 's entitled to expect that the lawyer investigates the state of entitlement to arrange the matter and to explain to the trial exactly what that is , what it is that is portrayed by the state of the title . |
| 7 | Atrocities were reported on both sides ; random killings appeared to increase in mid- to late July as basic supplies in the capital ran low , and discipline broke down in the ranks of Army and rebel forces alike . |
| 8 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 9 | In essence , these created rebates on contributions to occupational schemes and reduced the requirements they had to meet in order to be officially ‘ approved ’ . |
| 10 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 11 | Post-war credits are extra tax that people had to pay in addition to their income tax between April 1941 and April 1946 . |
| 12 | What the Attorney-General — not so much the Minister of State — had to say in response to the private notice question was tragic . |
| 13 | On Feb. 28 she joined the Supreme Council 's economic commission , although there were suggestions that she intended to stand in opposition to the administration of President Vytautas Landsbergis . |
| 14 | So many people wanted to emigrate in answer to this that the local authorities feared that the traditional system of agriculture in Madeira as well as the new industries , would be endangered by a shortage of artisans and workers . |
| 15 | The response is a naive one ; but perhaps what Gandhi wanted to convey in answer to this question was that his faith in the principle of non-violence and truth had not been shattered by the use of the atom bomb . |