Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) .
2 After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots .
3 The extent of judicial loyalty to statute enjoined by the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty therefore depends on the correct interpretation of the legal principle alone .
4 The serious business , however , started when the absolute right to quota came under the hammer of the auctioneer , Iain Thomson .
5 In his contribution the exhibition 's co-ordinator Nigel Whiteley , Head of Visual Arts at Lancaster , argues that the tradition of Ruskin 's ethical approach to architecture survived into the Modern Movement , however different the aesthetic result .
6 His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) .
7 This approach to bureaucracy coincided with the extension of government powers in Western democracies , an increase in the number of government officials and a growth in the proportion of national wealth allocated through public bureaucracies .
8 Haworth 's introduction to chemistry came through the linoleum factory in Chorley , Lancashire , which his father managed .
9 In the alternative , however , they contended that the payments by Woolwich had been made pursuant to an implied agreement between Woolwich and the revenue whereby it was agreed that the revenue would hold the sums pending the outcome of proceedings to determine the validity of the relevant regulations , and that any entitlement of Woolwich to repayment arose on the date of the first judgment of Nolan J. with the effect that interest ran only from that date .
10 The principal obstacle to transplantation lay in the subtle differences between the tissues of one individual and another , differences which provoked immune reactions between the recipient and the transplanted organ .
11 The turn to terror coincided with the renewed willingness on the part of some radicals to consider seeking constitutional concessions as a preliminary step to social change .
12 And by contrast , the poor region , certainly amongst the grand negative bacilli is very similar across a wide range of different species and this provides a very important opportunity to produce immunity to endotoxin directed against the core and this possibility has recently been exploited by a production of the molecule antibody directed against the core polysacride of the erm er er , of ecoli .
13 The failure of a small group of teachers ( who even if they were not professionally inept were certainly politically naïve ) was used to provide ammunition for an attack on schools whose approach to learning diverged from the traditional .
14 In all cases , it appears that the transition from ‘ complicated molecule ’ to life occurred in the oceans .
15 The Court advised that the exclusive power of referral to arbitration belonged to the Mixed Commission , which had been established by the parties as a separate legal entity with specified functions .
16 The subsequent research findings presented to Congress resulted in the Noise Control Act of 1972 ( later expanded into the Quiet Communities Act of 1978 ) which required the EPA to set standards of tolerable noise levels for all types of new equipment and machinery .
17 Apart from this tenacious defence of local liberties the Caroline bureaucrats , in common with other administrative technicians of the ancien régime in Europe , found that the main obstacle to modernization lay in the inertia of the average Spanish office-holder and the sheer size of the administrative apparatus — the superfluity of posts that nourished what was later to be termed empleadismo .
18 A change from Krankoor to Kranko came between the 1847 and 1848 volumes , soon after Theunis 's death .
19 He had been studying soil fungi since 1916 , and wrote a survey of the known inhibitors in 1940 , but his effective contribution to medicine came after the very modest success of tyrocidin and the very great success of penicillin .
20 No attempt can be made in a work of this scope to relate the full story of how nineteenth century attitudes to death evolved during the present century into those now prevailing .
21 My mother s face as she spun from uniform to uniform shone with the frightened ecstasy of a martyred saint .
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