Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be spent on a number of projects intended to make the town centre the hub for commerce and culture . |
| 2 | On Dec. 10 the Chamber of Deputies voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of the Socialist Party 's deputy secretary-general and former Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis to allow Venice magistrates to investigate corruption charges against him . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it can not be doubted that indiscriminate bombing of cities helped to prepare the ( a ) moral climate in which the atomic bomb could be used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 4 | A swarm of midges decided to make the climb with me , enjoying the fresh blood of an Englishman . |
| 5 | Anthropological inquiry into the meaning of cultures came to question the established categories which had provided the models and criteria to assess different cultures . |
| 6 | Members are aware of the above called-in planning application and of the schedule of meetings arranged to consider the matter . |
| 7 | Cambio 90 ( Change 90 , Fujimori l. , a group of independents formed to fight the 1990 elections ) . |
| 8 | Birds of prey , such as this tawny owl ( opposite , bottom ) swooping down on a mouse , are at serious risk in many parts of the world because of pesticides employed to eliminate the pests on which they rely for food . |
| 9 | The vast majority of readers chose to take the option of voting for two favourite animals , but those few who voted for just one ( which was then counted twice in the tallying up ) tended to favour the elephant , specifically the African elephant , followed by tiger , otter and pig . |
| 10 | A series of influences tended to reduce the labour cost-consciousness of management , particularly in manufacturing industries . |
| 11 | Initially , large numbers of expatriates started to leave the country , but with the deployment of US forces the business community appeared to regain some of its confidence . |
| 12 | The three codes of practice — the first stage in a planned series of codes intended to support the Taxpayer 's Charter — aim to set out the standards of service people can expect . |
| 13 | The courts have repeatedly said that the police are not entitled to conduct dragnet searches yet , prior to the Act , a series of decisions appeared to encourage the police to go far beyond the terms of the warrant . |
| 14 | After the debate , a number of bishops hastened to assure the mass media that they would not knowingly employ gay clergy , although one or two spoke out against homophobia . |
| 15 | The Impressionist painters caught the contagion , and the new race of photographers tried to seize the fleeting moment and make it stay . |
| 16 | Hence the value of meals sacrificed to make the last film is also the marginal utility of the last meal times the number of meals sacrificed . |
| 17 | On Doody 's death in 1706 , the Court of Apothecaries agreed to lease the garden to a joint stock of ninety subscribers , amongst whom Isaac Rand was prominent . |
| 18 | On October 18th , a large crowd of Londoners planned to seize the Bishop of London , and to plunder others who were not favourable to the Queen . |
| 19 | By demonstrating why workers , soldiers and a minority of peasants came to support the Bolshevik party in 1917 they bring to light the limitations of the party 's popular mandate , and the speed with which that mandate was forfeited . |
| 20 | In this study one group of children learned to choose the less attractive of two toys in pairs where the forbidden toy was always of one colour and therefore easy to identify . |
| 21 | There was also a widespread attachment to the Book of Common Prayer burial service , and when in 1653 Barebone 's Parliament abolished church weddings , hundreds of couples refused to accept the new civil ceremony and continued to be married by the clergy . |
| 22 | I stared up at the grey sky and the black ravens which circled above the battlements like the souls of men condemned to wander the earth forever . |
| 23 | We have found no documentary evidence at all to explain how such a large body of men came to leave the 5 Corps area , eventually to turn up in northern Italy . |
| 24 | Each morning there was a rota of men designated to fill the coal containers for the day — buckets for the Administration offices and the Guard Room and the barracks , sacks for the huts — from the central heap of fuel beside the compound gate . |
| 25 | Many civilised countries now include in their domestic legislation a battery of measures intended to prevent the accumulation of money in tax havens , but with the reduction in exchange controls worldwide this is rarely successful . |
| 26 | In May 1990 , the Andreotti government adopted a package of measures intended to prevent the public sector exceeding by a significant margin the targeted budget deficit of L133,000,000 million ( approximately US$98,000 million ) [ see p. 37509 ] . |
| 27 | In April and May parliament approved a series of measures intended to prepare the ground for the new economic structure . |
| 28 | This response has incorporated the respectable face of feminism , concerned with ‘ equal rights ’ , into its understanding and provision , with a range of initiatives intended to acknowledge the justice of equal opportunities . |
| 29 | From the mid-1970s onwards a number of factors began to threaten the continued existence of this ‘ single capacity ’ system : |
| 30 | During the twenty-nine years between 1660 and 1689 , many thousands of nonconformists chose to disregard the Code and participate in secret ‘ conventicles ’ ; many hundreds of them who were caught subsequently languished for years in gaol . |