Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 2 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
| 3 | The polytechnics have responded to the universities ' attempts to recruit CDP members by demanding a merger deadline — probably April 1993 . |
| 4 | All its major innovations — the sale of council houses , the reform of the unions , privatization of industry , tax reform — had met with popular acclaim and substantially added to the Conservatives ' constituency . |
| 5 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 6 | In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary . |
| 7 | He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 . |
| 8 | Urquhart had come to the Nowaks ' house , Blanche thought , for the same purpose as her — an illegal search for clues about Marek 's past activities . |
| 9 | So far the exercise has been confined to the managers ' professional body , the Institute of Health Service Management ( IHSM ) . |
| 10 | Souness , confined to the directors ' box because of a five-game ban from the touchline and dressing room area , said : ‘ I thought we played a very good team . |
| 11 | The McKinsey position seems more defensible this time , with the negative growth being confined to the dogs ' quarters . |
| 12 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 13 | It will be of interest to see whether the reasoning is applied to the courts ' powers of review ; if this took place a general right to reasoned decisions would have evolved . |
| 14 | Before there could be any school in Stockport , it was first necessary for the executors to purchase property which could then be legally transferred to the Goldsmiths ' Company . |
| 15 | In respect of one item the credit period expired at midnight on 1 December and property in it was transferred to the buyers ' customer on 2 December . |
| 16 | Through these activities the newly acquired language is transferred to the pupils ' own world and enables them to talk about their own experiences . |
| 17 | Bonuses , rebates , and discounts related to the buyers ' past purchases from the supplier have also been frowned upon by the authorities . |
| 18 | This included : the relationship of the material selected to the libraries ' objectives ; guidance on levels of provision in different sizes of library ; criteria for selection ; definition of community groups to be served ; policy on censorship ; comments on various types of material — e.g. paperbacks , audiovisual materials ; donations policy ; relationships with the book trade ; statements of responsibility for selection ; demographic information about the area . |
| 19 | The action moved to the Saints ' end where a cross from Kiwomya eluded Dozzell and Whitton but fell kindly for Guentchev only for the Bulgarian to blaze his shot over the top . |
| 20 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 21 | He speared a full-toss into Stewart 's pads , out of the dark Press-box window , and what somebody calculated as the 27th appeal of the innings was answered to the Pakistanis ' exquisite satisfaction . |
| 22 | An application for a warrant should be made to a magistrates ' court unless there are public law proceedings pending in the county court or the High Court ( APO , art 3(3) ) . |
| 23 | " that it is desirable that before anything is done as to interfere in the internal arrangement of the School , that application be made to the Goldsmiths ' Company for an additional grant . " |
| 24 | The Madison banks collapsed after sustaining huge losses on real estate loans , many of which were made to the banks ' directors , employees and their relatives . |
| 25 | The circumstances of the breach ( which followed a previous less significant breach ) were drawn to the plaintiffs ' attention by the defendants ' solicitors by letter dated 30 April 1991 as follows : |
| 26 | The accident began with an experiment , to see if power could be supplied to the reactors ' cooling pumps using only the momentum of the stations ' own turbines . |
| 27 | STEVE BALE talked to the Scarlets ' rebel with a cause . |
| 28 | In part , the emerging entente must be attributed to the authorities ' move to the right , towards the Kinnockite orthodoxy favoured by Margaret Hodge , the Islington and ALA leader . |
| 29 | The councillors agreed to the mothers ' request to meet education officials to try to speed this up . |
| 30 | Britain experienced international isolation over the issue and in March 1902 , agreed to the Boers ' wish for peace . |