Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One strategy involved tackling the profession on its own terms , refuting statistics and medical claims that the acts led to improvements in morality and public order through a mass of published tracts and pamphlets . |
| 2 | As the crowds listened to Christ 's unconventional preaching and observed his miracles they acknowledged him as sent from God . |
| 3 | Another would sometimes go back to work er if their son or dau well mainly the sons went to university and they needed the extra money for that . |
| 4 | The boy had been examined by a surgeon , Thomas Chapman , who found numerous wheals , bruises and lacerations , and his report to the guardians led to proceedings being taken against the tailor before the County magistrates ; he was convicted and fined £5 . |
| 5 | She received £50 per annum extra ( and the net savings to the guardians amounted to £90 for the year ) . |
| 6 | The vacancies came to light as the Department of the Environment announced a reorganisation of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , prior to giving it new powers in the ‘ green ’ Bill . |
| 7 | There was a vigorous black-market , and from time to time the authorities had to cajole citizens to cease hoarding gold . |
| 8 | The letter which the employers sent to John Common , acknowledging the return to work , congratulated him on " the manly and frank tone in which you intimate the termination of the dispute . " |
| 9 | Robert 's loyalty to Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrians led to attainder and forfeiture , which in turn compelled his mother to sell two manors of her own to meet the demands of creditors from whom the ransom money had been borrowed ( 88 , pp.29–32 , 126–7 ) . |
| 10 | The imperative to act upon the promptings of benevolence was crucial to some notable opponents of the slave trade ; its frustration by the traders amounted to disruption of providential means to harmony . |
| 11 | As the dawn slowly broke and the cocks began to crow in unison outside the cottages scattered over the heath , a sensation of rapt stillness cast its spell on him . |
| 12 | Most of the projects are in Asia and about 40 per cent of the funds went to projects in very poor countries ; investment in fertilizers , chemicals and petrochemicals was the largest single group . |
| 13 | The voices belonged to Rohmer and Jimmy Devlin , but he could n't hear what they were arguing about as he hauled himself around the staircase rail , paused for gasping breath and looked back down into the stairwell . |
| 14 | The losses led to calls for the resignation of the national leadership . |
| 15 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 16 | Matters did not improve , so on 7 July 1987 the present action was commenced , by which time the arrears amounted to £11,566 . |
| 17 | Ian Smith led from the open-side flank when the Scots lost to New South Wales by 35–15 in the absence of both Sole and Hastings . |
| 18 | The words seemed to trip over each other in her enthusiasm . |
| 19 | The words seemed to flesh her out again . |
| 20 | ‘ The Arabs went to war with us in 1948 to destroy our Jewish state . |
| 21 | The original monastery physic gardens were fairly plain , with rectangular or square beds in lines , but as time went on , and private households began to grow their own medicinal cures , food flavourings and fragrances , the sites devoted to herbs became more elaborate , until they were often laid out in the " knot " style , an intricate arrangement of beds said to have taken its name originally from the lover 's knot . |
| 22 | He had told Ladislav when the Communists came to power : ‘ This is the beginnings of a police state . ’ |
| 23 | After the communists came to power , the name was changed to the Stalin Allee . |
| 24 | In Romania , politicians ' reliance on relatives was a strong tradition long before the Communists came to power . |
| 25 | The only expatriate survivor from the old days was Sophie , a Pole whose family had lost all their property when the Communists came to power after the Second World War . |
| 26 | Cardinal Roger Etchegaray is the highest Vatican official to go to China since the communists came to power in 1949 . |
| 27 | Do you know , Hugh , what the sortes sent to Roger of Salisbury , who fell into Stephen 's displeasure not so many years ago and died disgraced ? |
| 28 | Early measurements indicate that there is a significant difference in the terrestrial ages , or lengths of time since the meteorites fell to Earth , between Antarctic meteorites and those collected on other continents . |
| 29 | Mr Peter Joyce , prosecuting , said the offences came to light when the baby , who was not named in court , was taken to a health centre for treatment to an elbow injury inflicted by his father five days earlier . |
| 30 | The offences came to light when one of the children told a teacher about her ordeal after breaking down following a television programme about child abuse . |