Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we ask why the ancestors of lions took to meat-eating , while the ancestors of antelopes took to grass-eating , the answer could be that originally it was an accident . |
| 2 | A hat-trick of titles fell to Ben Shaw ( Harrogate ) when the first of this year 's Yorkshire championships were staged at Leeds . |
| 3 | In the spring of 1990 particularly , trial runs of the assessment of 7-year-olds led to revelations about strain and frustration which led central government considerably to reduce its demands . |
| 4 | There were also pages of poems forced into some sort of rhyming structure so that they might conceivably have worked as songs , several paragraphs of references to critical works ( Barthes , especially ; Death of the Author ! shouted what looked like a headline over one entire page of notes devoted to ideas about a looseleaf novel/poem ? ? |
| 5 | In 1990 around 58 per cent of exports went to EC countries and 74 per cent of imports came from the EC , while the country 's five EFTA partners accounted for only 7 per cent of trade . |
| 6 | Scores of journalists flew to Asia but the elusive star has been avoiding reporters . |
| 7 | When Mary Queen of Scots went to Edinburgh she bewailed going out among savages , and she herself went from a sixteenthcentury court that held but a barbarous , or rather a drivelling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture as it had been before the debacle of 1527 . |
| 8 | As fighting continued , thousands of refugees fled to Zagreb to escape from Serbian fighters who were seizing territory and advancing amid the supportive bombardment of the army . |
| 9 | A number of miners went to prison for breach of bail conditions … . |
| 10 | If we ask why the ancestors of lions took to meat-eating , while the ancestors of antelopes took to grass-eating , the answer could be that originally it was an accident . |
| 11 | Thousands of viewers wrote to CCTV insisting that the series be repeated . |
| 12 | Amongst the early tasks indicated for the Board by the Lord Chancellor was to consider whether the best use was being made of resources devoted to advice and assistance , whether better arrangements might be made by using advice agencies and other organisations , and whether any further exclusions from the green form scheme would be appropriate . |
| 13 | You can argue about the amount of resources devoted to health but what you can not sensibly argue about is that the resources devoted to health care should be used to maximum effect . |
| 14 | This will be affected not just by the amount of resources devoted to health , but also by the efficiency of the service . |
| 15 | You will rarely make " hard news " — that is factual reporting of an event — but there is an increasing number of pages devoted to articles and features about the background to events and matters of general interest in all publications . |
| 16 | His ability to provide finance for publishing a newspaper , The Fascist , and a constant stream of pamphlets devoted to fascism , anti-semitism and racial nationalism , and his own editorial drive , made him a natural source of inspiration . |
| 17 | Now , when a short list of names went to Number 10 , there were questions about why other names had been omitted . |
| 18 | A group of bishops fled to Mallorca . |
| 19 | It was to try to shed some further light on this matter that on 2 July 1992 , by way of a written question , I asked the Government its view of the legal status of agreements appended to treaties amending the Treaty of Rome . |
| 20 | As the fourth in its biennial series of exhibitions devoted to cities at their zenith , the Kulturstiftung Ruhr is offering ‘ London World City 1800–40 ’ from 6 June to 7 November at Essen 's Villa Hügel . |
| 21 | Evidence from visitor surveys showed instead that the vast majority of tourists came to Edinburgh for its beauty and its historical associations . |
| 22 | Thousands of pensioners travelled to Westminster today to protest against the government 's plans to impose V A T on domestic fuel . |
| 23 | Widow tells how a trail of clues led to marriage heartbreak . |
| 24 | individual bad decisions : 80% of children chauffeured to school ( local intervention required ) |
| 25 | A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school . |
| 26 | Deep learning , on the other hand , is the kind you take with you through the rest of your life : like Paul of Tarsus 's conversion on the road to Damascus , or the kind of insights vouchsafed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau when he fell asleep under his tree of knowledge . |
| 27 | In the summer of 1985 , bans on a number of parades led to rioting , loyalist attacks on the RUC , and a revival of interest in DUP views on illegality . |
| 28 | Two marvellous collections of photographs came to light — Miss Puckle 's and Mr Emmanuel Beddoes ' — I have been given permission to use these , and many others lent by individuals . |