Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the evidence of seditious words can tell us something about the range of motives which led people to Jacobitism , it can tell us little about how prevalent such sympathies were . |
| 2 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |
| 3 | The following century saw the spread of Gnosticism , the believers in which laid claim to secret , or privileged , knowledge and so were called gnostikoi ( ‘ knowers ’ ) . |
| 4 | The Eugenics Society set up in 1926 the first medical study on contraceptive experience , which reported benefits to health . |
| 5 | Inspection of nine sites occupied by Soviet Army units had revealed that most had groundwater contaminated by oil , which posed threats to drinking water supplies . |
| 6 | Assistant General Secretary , Larry Broderick , proposed the motion which condemned threats to Trade Union Membership . |
| 7 | Officials say that nearly three hundred were injured in the storm , which reduced buildings to matchwood . |
| 8 | Channel 4 's ‘ Brookside ’ briefly flirted with a lesbian sub-plot based round a disorganised feminist printing collective which added spice to Heather and Nicholas 's conjugal difficulties . |
| 9 | His ultimate conversion , after long and courteous discussions which added cubits to Gandhi 's stature , provided a timely justification of the latter 's claim to leadership . |
| 10 | Despite the repression which drove Babes to suicide . |
| 11 | Thus most Tories supported the war with France in William 's reign as both necessary and desirable , whilst it was a House of Commons with a Tory majority which committed England to war in defence of a balance of power in 1701 . |
| 12 | Also on the up was newcomer Tadpole Technology which climbed 48p to 194p — a premium of 129p to its 65p placing price . |
| 13 | She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) . |
| 14 | The choice then appears to be between informalism , in which individualized solutions to disputes are worked out and accepted by the parties , and the formal judicial process . |
| 15 | In many respects the whole General Strike could be seen as an inevitable development which served notice to government , employers and trade unions that each party was not to be taken lightly . |
| 16 | In the face of a common enemy , Serbs , Croats , Italians and Vlahs were able to unite in defence of the Dalmatian city states which owed allegiance to Venice . |
| 17 | In the middle of the ninth century one of the Serbian chieftains , Vlastimir , became grand župan ( veliki župan ) of a Serbian principality which owed allegiance to Byzantium . |
| 18 | He fought a vigorous battle for the right of the Croat Church — at this time under the patriarchate of Aquilaea , which owed allegiance to Byzantium — to use the Slavonic liturgy and the glagolitic alphabet , in opposition to the Roman influences of the neighbouring bishopric of Split . |
| 19 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 20 | The university had one college , Birkbeck , which awarded degrees to evening students so that they might work at their jobs during the day . |
| 21 | The 1941 paper from Oxford led to some comments in the press , which included reference to Fleming and to Oxford , but Fleming 's first substantial clinical observation with penicillin appears to have occurred in August 1942 , when a patient , an employee of Fleming 's brother 's optical firm , was failing to respond to treatment for meningitis in St Mary 's Hospital . |
| 22 | Such a stand was also shaped by the essentially libertarian ideas of the mainstream feminist movement , which included opposition to state intervention of all kinds ( including protective legislation and the inspection of homes under the Infant Life Protection Acts ) , and by the more general movement for moral reform , which comprised an interlocking nexus of feminist , social purity , temperance , anti-vaccination , and animal welfare societies . |
| 23 | The announcement that British Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it buy the Rover car company in 1988 took the wind out of BAe , which lost 4p to 321p . |
| 24 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 25 | Mariana is yoked in an arranged marriage to her uncle , Philip IV ; she , as representative of the Spanish crown , is also a representative of the colonial and religious yokes which bound Mexico to Spain . |
| 26 | The accounts were eventually brought before the Review Panel , which took exception to Trafalgar 's decision in the 1991 accounts to revalue and transfer a number of commercial properties from developments for sale , under current assets , to tangible fixed assets . |
| 27 | This errand of death which took Nizan to Spain for the fourth time within fourteen months was symbolically appropriate . |
| 28 | Tobacco duty increases hit Rothmans International which fell 16p to 641p . |
| 29 | The bad-debt figures knocked the shares , which fell 16p to 443p by the close yesterday , despite NatWest 's announcement of a big recovery in profits last year . |
| 30 | The union request for recognition was referred to ACAS which sent questionnaires to union members at Grunwick 's but not to the rest of the workers because the employers would not supply ACAS with their names and addresses . |