Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 2 | The President and most Republican legislators favoured a version that would have limited the extra benefits to no more than 20 weeks , and objected to the qualification changes . |
| 3 | Even a change of name — from the Windscale that had witnessed the 1957 fire to the brave new world of Sellafield — has failed to expunge public hostility . |
| 4 | Governments and the EC , he argues , have not realised the inherent threats to manufacturing in the West . |
| 5 | It was late in the afternoon now , later than I thought it would be , and shadows were long on the grass before us , so that by the time we 'd travelled the leafy lane to Flanders Hall and had followed the road past the Grange to West Burton village green , it was early evening . |
| 6 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 7 | It was the latter suggestion , and how it was put into practice , that has enslaved the working man to this day . |
| 8 | Pearce had given the necessary instructions to a depressed , disillusioned and just plain pissed-off police cordon outside that the ‘ block ’ had to be maintained . |
| 9 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 10 | After chatting to the veterans for several minutes , the prince turned to an aide and joked : ‘ I hope we have given the right medals to the right people . ’ |
| 11 | In its action plan to save threatened cetaceans the Cetacean Specialist Group of IUCN has given the highest priority to a study which would monitor the scattered gill-net fisheries in the Gulf of California . |
| 12 | An anglophile university professor who used his modest means to amass 322 British and continental drawings has given the entire lot to the National Gallery . |
| 13 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 14 | Given the inevitable damage to the rural environment that will result , I do not consider this outcome is what we , or the Government , intend by the concept of ‘ sustainable planning ’ . |
| 15 | I believe that given the potential field to whom we circulated details , over 65 UK companies alone , that this level of response is not unreasonable . |
| 16 | The support given the previous day to German neo-Nazis in two regional elections there was the starting point for his attack on PR ; a first-past-the-post system and stringent policies on asylum and immigration were preventing an extreme-right emergence in Britain , so he argued . |
| 17 | Given the short period to maturity , there may be little remaining dividend uncertainty . |
| 18 | When I learnt biology , I was taught that Weismann , although he was right about the independence of germ line and soma , had given the wrong answer to this question . |
| 19 | He went to work for the Gas Light & Coke Company at Beckton in 1908 but he soon chafed at not being given the free rein to which he had become accustomed at Davis Bros . |
| 20 | When my husband 's mother , Lakey , died , an extraordinary scene of pillage went on in her little Blackpool bungalow after Jack had uttered the fateful sentence to visiting friends and relatives ‘ Take whatever you want . ’ |
| 21 | A new accounting technique has almost trebled the 1991 profits to £620m . |
| 22 | If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long . |
| 23 | Yet there are those of us who , although firmly based inside such an institution , have undertaken anthropological training and have subsequently developed the academic wish to be discursive . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the Chancellor was shocked to discover that the Civil War of the previous reign had swollen the National Debt to a record level … |
| 25 | Having examined the indirect approaches to selling , we shall now look at the more direct methods . |
| 26 | The measure also restored citizenship to 175 cultural figures stripped of their citizenship on emigration , and to those who had joined the Russian emigration to Israel . |
| 27 | Jessie had said a fortnight , but it was only nine days since she had broken the awful news to her . |
| 28 | I had intended the whole play to be accompanied by light drum taps to accentuate the beats ( esp . |
| 29 | His is an angry , radical critique of the changes taking place , arguing that market ideology has pervaded the Scottish universities to the extent that their work has lost its breadth , its pace , its ability to question and its identity . |
| 30 | Recent newspaper reports have highlighted the potential threat to Britain when the Channel Tunnel links us with the Continent . |