Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teaching by subject led naturally to organization by subjects , and to the almost baronial power of heads of department within the system . |
| 2 | Attempts to protect the American economy by raising tariff rates , as in the Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930 , led only to retaliation by other countries against American goods . |
| 3 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 4 | The disability discrimination provisions of the federal Rehabilitation Act 1973 were modelled upon the sex and race discrimination measures of Title VII in the Civil Rights Act 1964 , but applied only to employment by the federal government , by federal contractors and by employers in federally-financed programmes and activities . |
| 5 | Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses . |
| 6 | The ball cannoned away to safety for Milton . |
| 7 | It was , the classic New Zealand manoeuvre , the line-out won from the top by Martin Bayfield , the ball moved quickly to midfield by Aadel Kardooni , carried vigorously into the heart of the opposing forwards by Victor Ubogu , and then returned to the backs going left . |
| 8 | It is somewhat paradoxical that structural shift does not appear to have been a major factor in productivity growth after the war , because it is well known that structural imbalances contributed substantially to unemployment between the wars . |
| 9 | They are each used here to gesture at a range of philosophical positions . |
| 10 | Paragraph 5 referred simply to enforcement of a judgment or order against a person who , under the rule , was bound by it . |
| 11 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 12 | In the pre-war years , his lack of charisma and poor judgement of men contributed significantly to tension within the establishment . |
| 13 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |
| 14 | The next morning , I came home to defiance in the face of defeat and 50 Scots Labour MPs , the Fighting Fifty . |
| 15 | In 1983/84 , it came close to collapse after making heavy losses on loans to an Indian commodity group named Esal , which was involved in the subsequent collapse of Johnson Matthey . |
| 16 | By early 1989 the Prime Minister was at odds with several colleagues , not only Nigel Lawson with whom she quarrelled incessantly , but also with Sir Geoffrey Howe whose sympathy for European monetary union and generally benign approach to foreign affairs came increasingly to jar with her . |
| 17 | There was a part of his mind filled almost to sickness with self-mockery , a bitter mockery grown out of the fear that was back with him now , mockery for the excellence of his seamanship . |
| 18 | The next day , a Sunday , Martha dawdled silently to church behind her grandmother , watching without sympathy her painful , crablike progress on bowed legs and misshapen feet . |
| 19 | It looked surprised for a moment , and then toppled over and shattered into gravel ( trolls being silicaceous lifeforms , their bodies reverted instantly to stone at the moment of death ) . |
| 20 | Ianthe was disconcerted , even a little shocked , to see the bottles of milk still standing outside the door of her uncle 's Mayfair rectory when she arrived there to luncheon on Quinquagesima Sunday . |
| 21 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | He spent much of his childhood in China but returned home to school at Marlborough . |
| 23 | Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found . |
| 24 | One of these , the king 's younger son Louis Duke of Anjou , broke his word and returned to France , at which King John , showing a misplaced sense of honour , returned voluntarily to captivity in England and died at the Savoy in April 1364 . |
| 25 | The US space shuttle Discovery returned safely to Earth on Dec. 9 after a seven-day mission which included the deployment of a top secret US Air Force reconnaissance DOD-1 satellite and unclassified experiments with an Army laser receiver and US Navy camera system . |
| 26 | After over 300 days in space the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov returned safely to earth from the Mir space station on March 25 , his return having been delayed since December . |
| 27 | But the turkey farm developed elsewhere and Councillor Thomas worked arduously to Iron out most of the bureaucratic formalities which Bernard hated or ignored . |
| 28 | For himself , he may well have decided that his cavils against classical philology applied equally to academe in general , so that , wounded pride apart , he was hardly worse off than before . |
| 29 | The uncles and aunts presumably knew but Stephen himself had n't heard a word of him since he went away to college in London when he was eighteen . |
| 30 | She would imagine calling him up to her room every night before he went home to bed with a man , and taking her silver hairbrush from her desk and brushing his hair out like a daughter 's , one hundred strokes every night . |