Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 2 | They rushed in , caught up the babies from student nurse Bridget 's and Kitty 's arms and handed them to young male nurses . |
| 3 | Linking the Midlands manufacturers to London by canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital , but conversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removed their need to send as many goods through London . |
| 4 | On 2 October 1991 Jordanian security forces arrested Muhammad al-Fasi , a Saudi Arabian businessman , and reportedly handed him to Saudi Arabian authorities at the al-Haditha crossing point on the Saudi/Jordanian frontier . |
| 5 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |
| 6 | Its sponsor was Count Nostic who leased it to various theatrical societies from the end of the 18C for the performance of Bohemian drama . |
| 7 | With her formidable industry , Mrs Thatcher , over more than a decade , acquired a grasp of EC detail which left her own experts trailing and , more important , often enabled her to wrong-foot hostile EC officials . |