Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 2 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 3 | The principal beneficiaries were those who moved to the new houses built in the postwar housing drives , which ( with a few exceptions in remote rural areas ) all had electricity as a basic service . |
| 4 | It is a welcome return from the golfing wilderness for the former Durham County champion who carried hopes of a highly successful professional career when he moved to the paid ranks after gaining international honours some five years ago . |
| 5 | After forceful driving by the male , eggs are laid in , or moved to the brooding tunnels or cave and protected carefully mainly by the male , sometimes apparently actually sitting on the eggs . |
| 6 | Most of the poems Wordsworth contributed to the Lyrical Ballads were completed in an astonishing burst of creativity during the next few weeks , and drew their inspiration largely from his immediate surroundings at Holford and Alfoxden . |
| 7 | A cost cutting programme also contributed to the better figures at the company . |
| 8 | In 1700 she contributed an ode on the death of John Dryden [ q.v. ] to Luctus Britanici : or the Tears of the British Muses , and she also contributed to The Nine Muses ( 1700 ) , a volume of poems by women in memory of Dryden edited by Mary Delarivière Manley [ q.v. ] , with whom she had an intense but short-lived friendship . |
| 9 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 10 | They were gaudy and sexually suggestive and each tailored to the individual characteristics of the woman to be wed . |
| 11 | The most important Romanesque churches of this type in the city of Cologne are that dedicated to the twelve apostles ( S. Aposteln 328 , 330 ) , S. Maria im Capitol , the earliest of the group , constructed on the foundation walls of the Roman Capitoline Trias , S. Martin ( Gross S. Martin ) , S. Gereon ( 329 ) and S. Pantaleon . |
| 12 | Today , there is a small octagonal chapel in the Beirut coastal suburb of Antelyas dedicated to the 1915 massacres . |
| 13 | By comparison with the attention devoted to the economic influences upon politics there has been relatively little sociological analysis of the political consequences of war , in spite of its manifest importance in the development of societies . |
| 14 | The second section , devoted to the political powers of the period , opens with the splendours of the imperial court : precious manuscripts and goldsmiths ' work , and models of royal residences and churches . |
| 15 | The extent to which the PCF was committed to popular front cultural politics can be appreciated both by the amount of time and energy that it devoted to the anti-fascist congresses , peace movements and revolutionary cultural associations of the period , and by its willingness to engage in the policy of la main tendue ( " the outstretched hand " ) in its relations with sympathisers of any persuasion , ideological or religious , willing to collaborate in its struggle against capitalist warmongering , imperialism , fascism and oppression . |
| 16 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |
| 17 | The Centre Pompidou 's extensive autumn programme is yet another mammoth event : eleven exhibitions devoted to the visual arts , literature ( including one on the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges ) , cinema and theatre of Latin America , as well as debates , public readings , performances , a philosophy seminar , a symposium and a large number of publications . |
| 18 | Liz Norton will now be writing a double ration for them but it will be divided into ‘ Simply Silver ’ for punchcard machines and the new ‘ Silver Scene ’ devoted to the electronic machines . |
| 19 | I was , however , devoted to the three dogs I owned while I was at The Milebrook . |
| 20 | The exhibition closes with the important social and constitutional developments of the period : the development of towns ( with a section devoted to the Jewish communities ) ; the institution of the civil service ; the beginnings of German federalism ; and the first electoral laws are among the aspects which document how the hundred years of Salien rule shaped German history to come . |
| 21 | To my surprise , the space devoted to the kinetic sculptures by David Medalla had a lively and progressive atmosphere . |
| 22 | The various modifications which these organs undergo are of considerable taxonomic importance and are dealt with in the chapters devoted to the different orders of insects . |
| 23 | The par-or-better rounds on Friday rose to the new heights of 54 and the average was further improved to 71.69 . |
| 24 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 25 | It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent . |
| 26 | They fled to the low countries , fell among thieves , and Katharine was reduced to giving birth to her son on the steps of a church at Wesel , even the sexton refusing to give them shelter . |
| 27 | He shouted to the two cops to turn me over to Harvey . |
| 28 | ‘ To take me to Eretz ! he shouted to the empty fields round about . |
| 29 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 30 | He referred to the political reforms introduced by the Treasury in other Departments and to the Financial Management Initiative . |