Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other able practitioners of homoeopathy in America were Allen , Nash , Boenninghausen and Boericke — all of whom added to the homoeopathic literature and whose work is still used today by students of homoeopathy . |
| 2 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 3 | It belongs to anyone from any country who is legitimately allowed to live here and who contributes to the general social welfare . |
| 4 | Cleveland Council Council welfare rights officer Tom Lamb said the figures for 1991–92 indicated that 75pc of claimants who applied to the Social Fund were refused community care grants . |
| 5 | " It 's just a matter of remaining possessed by Arjuna , who belongs to the Upper World , " he told us . |
| 6 | Tord Haraldsson from Alingsas , who belongs to the investigating task force , said that similar assaults in Denmark and the US have turned out to be sectarian rituals , where fanatics have been drinking horses ' blood to gain strength . |
| 7 | Neither do the thousands of tourists and reggae devotees from abroad who flock to the annual ‘ reggae sunsplash ’ . |
| 8 | They became an essential part of the practices of the Israelite tribes who penetrated to the northern parts of Canaan and integrated with local people . |
| 9 | Alternative approaches are reviewed by Franco Bianchini , who points to the potential role of an adequately funded arts programme in fostering civic pride and countering alienation , and Doreen Massey who emphasized the need for a combination of progressive national and local economic strategies . |
| 10 | The revival of the policy was also calculated to deal with those ‘ Lloyd George malcontents ’ , such as Austen Chamberlain , who objected to the Conservative Party removing Lloyd George from office in 1922 . |
| 11 | But in the important area of mountain lunches , for example , my experiences ( and the distilled findings of those who report to The Good Skiing Guide on such matters ) point to parity between France and Switzerland , with Austria and Italy providing worthwhile savings . |
| 12 | Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens . |
| 13 | A CONVICTED wife-killer who fled to the Irish Republic after walking out of a mental hospital was being flown back to Britain today , police said . |
| 14 | We are grateful also to Lord Flowers and all the speakers at various events and to the many members of the University who contributed to the public launch of the Campaign for Resource . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This was an important loss of potential moderate middle class support , who moved to the right wing in opposition to the republic . |
| 17 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 18 | Of his ealdormen , a certain amount is known about Eadric of Mercia , who according to the late eleventh-century Worcester monk Hemming was nicknamed Streona — the Acquisitor . |
| 19 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 20 | Other sources observe that HP and Sun , who came to the MAS announcement as cheerleaders , did not exactly pledge to adopt it leaving only IBM who was already involved . |
| 21 | Any kind of bed , by now , would have been welcome ; but to his relief the woman who came to the inner closed door was clean , and her house had no odour of bugs . |
| 22 | Thanks to all those who came to the lovely Garden Party held in aid of CAFOD last Thursday evening . |
| 23 | The mullah was very hungry and when he heard that the Emperor was providing a free iftar to anyone who came to the Red Fort he immediately tied up his donkey and went along . |
| 24 | ( ’ There were people , too , who added to the real perils by inventing fictitious dangers . ’ ) |
| 25 | The real problems are caused by directors who cling to the dead forms of classic Hollywood . |
| 26 | The judge had earlier given leave for Dr Odling-Smee to be called to give evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations in a pamphlet that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs who surrendered to the British in southern Austria in May 1945 . |
| 27 | Certainly not , he adds , administration officials , who capitulated to the religious right , or most journalists , few of whom delved beyond the obvious in their coverage . |
| 28 | This was rejected by Sutton , who reverted to the original Graeco-Turkish technique of superficial scarification using small amounts of lymph . |
| 29 | It would have been a disappointed reader , however , who turned to The Daily Mail 's titillating headline ‘ HE ATE A POLICEMAN ’ at the high pitch of the Bank Holiday alarm in 1898 for more news of the monstrous Hooligans , because the story thankfully described the exploits of a truculent crocodile . |
| 30 | Georgian officials who protested to the Russian army headquarters in the Black Sea resort of Gudauta , claimed they were told the attack was to avenge Saturday 's shelling of a Russian army unit stationed in Abkhazia . |