Example sentences of "and [adj] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who have a sense of humour are regarded as being balanced and stable compared to people who are depressed and anxious and have difficulty seeing the funny side of life . |
| 2 | Yet despite this capacity to learn , the behavioural repertoire of chimpanzees is rudimentary and limited compared to people . |
| 3 | The ‘ boomers ’ packed their tents hurriedly , the log buildings were emptied of their contents and demolished , and one and all hurried to Wainwright as best they could , and with what vehicles they could command . |
| 4 | The Australian government on June 16 expressed its concern at the discrepancies between the sentences imposed on civilian protesters and those given to soldiers in the wake of the November 1991 army massacre of pro-independence demonstrators in Dili , the capital of East Timor [ see pp.38579-80 ; 38677 ; 38769-70 ; 38867-68 ] . |
| 5 | The physical breakdown of rock is always associated with some kind of volume change and it is useful to categorize the various processes into those involving an overall volumetric change in the rock mass and those related to changes in volume of material introduced into voids or fissures in the rock . |
| 6 | The data collected fell into two categories : those related to operations management and those related to R&D project management . |
| 7 | Such humour even stretched to the envelopes , and those addressed to friends such as Clive Bell often had on them verse instructions to the postman . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , there is a strange but consistent pattern to all the reports of offspring ; fertile she-mules mated to donkeys always produce mules and those mated to stallions always produce horse foals . |
| 9 | Under its rights accumulation programme ( this approach having been endorsed by the IMF Interim Committee in May 1990 and first applied to Zambia in April 1991 ) , Peru could accumulate rights up to the equivalent of SDR207,900,000 ( US$282,000,000 ) by December 1991 . |
| 10 | Over 50 models , some from the school , and two confined to wheelchairs , enjoyed the experience , showing clothes designed for teenagers through to middle age , and ‘ all at affordable prices , ’ reports 15 year old , Sarita Creese-Smith . |
| 11 | A further summons assembled another army , which this time was joined by the king , but when they all met " it came to nothing as so often before " , and Æthelred returned to London on hearing that some intended to betray him . |
| 12 | But as Sara White discovered , the re-enactment took on an air of reality with some twenty-five soldiers injured and seven taken to hospital . |