Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 2 | The refined X-ray structure of CypA bound to a tetrapeptide which was used in molecular replacement has an r.m.s.d. of 1.1 ( all atoms ) from the pentamer protomers . |
| 3 | The critique of the development model of UNESCO led to a number of radical literacy campaigns influenced by the pioneering work of Paolo Freire in Brazil . |
| 4 | The Soviet Union initially regarded the ASEAN community as an American-devised SEATO-type alliance , but growing understanding of ASEAN led to a reversal of this stand ( see below ) . |
| 5 | The revelation of Elvaston led to a topiary revival in the 1850s . |
| 6 | Throughout 1954 and 1955 the setting up of ITV led to a great exodus of talent from the BBC , attracted , no doubt , by the higher rates of pay advertised by the commercial stations . |
| 7 | The extreme case would be when the removal of NTBs led to a domestic monopoly becoming a perfectly competitive market . |
| 8 | The case for the removing of NTBs leading to a fundamental reconstruction of the economy of the EC may have been overestimated by the Cecchini Report . |
| 9 | THE city of Liverpool rose to a great occasion for the Battle of the Atlantic commemorations . |
| 10 | It is at the point in Scale 2 , where Hilton starts to emphasise this , that he uses the image of the ladder to look back at what has gone before , and to point the way ahead : The rest of the book illuminates the subtle inner movements of the personality in which man engages with the power of God to come to a knowledge of his being , the " wirkyng in a soul " when Scale 2 is more engaging as a work which marshals literary resources to illuminate Christian mystical theology . |
| 11 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 12 | In 1720 , for example , the Duke of Montrose remarked to a Scottish friend , that he had been advised by an official of the Treasury that a presentation to the office of land waiter of the customs at Port Glasgow had been submitted by the commissioners of customs in Scotland . |
| 13 | The sense of insecurity which affected the city-states of Mesopotamia led to a rudimentary interest in the history of social order . |
| 14 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 15 | His father secured a civil service transfer to a post in Scotland and at the beginning of September moved to a house about three miles from where Derek and his wife had settled . |
| 16 | EUROPEAN lightweight champion Jean-Baptiste Mendy of France cruised to a comfortable points win after a disappointing display by Britain 's Paul Burke in Paris last night . |
| 17 | Thus when in 1304 Archbishop Corbridge of York admitted to a canonry a papal providee instead of a royal presentee , he was summoned for contempt and was told by the king 's judges that as the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere to the detriment of crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 18 | Formalin fixation of neutrophils changed the pattern of PSC staining to a diffuse cytoplasmic speckled pattern with no nuclear staining . |
| 19 | Eliot continued to see the danger of London reduced to a waste land where ( with a momentary glance at Gerontion 's coughing goat ) debris lies |
| 20 | North Shields has always been a fishing centre but the construction of the new fish quay in 1886 and the invention of steam trawling by the tug-boat firm of Purdies led to a big growth in activity in the late nineteenth century and the development of a distant water fleet . |
| 21 | Consultants appointed to study the implications for the container port of Felixstowe came to a similar conclusion but its owners , P&O , have nevertheless embarked on a £50m project to upgrade facilities by the end of the year . |
| 22 | ‘ While in times past a royal wife would be expected simply to put up with a situation no matter how desperate , the Princess of Wales belongs to a generation that has come to expect greater things from life and certainly from relationships , ’ she wrote . |
| 23 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 24 | One man a few yards ahead of Dexter turned to a colleague and muttered , ‘ Bonking in the viewing room , eh ? ’ with a smutty chuckle . |