Example sentences of "in [noun] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her reluctant pioneering activity in Huntingdonshire led to courses at Eaton Socon , St. Neots and the county town . |
| 2 | The munitions factory in Hereford seemed to be the only concession to it . |
| 3 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 4 | Protesters in Germany took to the streets of Solingen after an arson attack by neo-Nazis that killed five Turks . |
| 5 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |
| 6 | The ADSW 's annual conference in Inverness proved to be the usual friendly affair with more than its fair share of memorable moments . |
| 7 | A commission of magistrates and theologians from the University of Louvain was appointed to examine him in a long-drawn-out process in which translations of his heretical works were prepared by Philips ; written charges and rebuttals in Latin passed to and fro between the Commission and Tyndale , followed by oral examinations . |
| 8 | The religious divisions in Sussex came to a head when Mary Tudor 's brief reign brought a return to hard-line Catholicism . |
| 9 | A further question addressed by the Court in Rask related to the freedom of the transferee to alter the terms and conditions of the workers unilaterally , on the assumption that the Directive was applicable to the case . |
| 10 | The Beveridge Report , which formed the basis of much of the post-war social security legislation , contained certain features which in part led to the need to reform the pension system . |
| 11 | After an eight-hour shift we went home — off duty — free men , while they in contrast went to their police houses and were available for ‘ discretional duty ’ , at the call of the system twenty-four hours a day ; proving we were independent free men and they were slaves ! |
| 12 | In the west the average number of those involved in agriculture fell to around 74 per cent . |
| 13 | A chance meeting at an international conference on prison security in Stockholm led to Latvia getting the blessing of a Scottish Office minister for assistance from the Scottish Prison Service towards reform of their penal system . |
| 14 | I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure . |
| 15 | Quite apart from this , however , the more immediate problems faced by 5 Corps in Carinthia seemed to be worsening . |
| 16 | Four claims filed against the firm in Tennessee amounted to $255m . |
| 17 | At one level , then , leading abolitionists in parliament came to the conclusion that the language of practicality , of plausible calculations about population increase in the future in the West Indies if importations from Africa were stopped , were more likely to be effective on their colleagues . |
| 18 | The assassination of Kashmir 's leading Moslem cleric in mid-May led to a serious deterioration in the security situation in the Kashmir Valley after weeks of relative calm . |
| 19 | It had now become clear both that significant moves towards greater academic independence for the colleges meant Charter changes , and that proposals for improvements in relationships had to be worked out in greater detail . |
| 20 | Jazz was popular in all circles during my childhood — the demand now is for more structured music or the cold beat of the synthesizer — but through the sixties the music of Black Africa in distress appealed to softened hearts . |
| 21 | One obvious and important change was that the emphasis laid on the effect of infant and child mortality on fertility a decade ago in Bucharest shifted to the effect of fertility and childbearing patterns on infant and child mortality . |
| 22 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |
| 23 | Slowly life in Fontanellato returned to normal . |
| 24 | The Arts : How the good life in Pompeii came to an end |
| 25 | The only razors I had seen in action belonged to my Dad and older brothers , when shaving . |
| 26 | Such fluctuations in the unemployment rate as were observed in practice came to be interpreted as fluctuations in the natural rate itself , not as deviations , temporary or otherwise , from the natural rate . |
| 27 | While this latter disqualification had not prevented the marriage of the Duke d'Orléans , son of Louis-Philippe , with Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , it had in practice proved to be inconvenient , as the duchess did not change her faith and had been accused of pushing ‘ the Protestant interest ’ . |
| 28 | An unarmed paramilitary group , their role in practice proved to be a cross between an adult boy scout movement and a slightly more sinister defence force and strike-breaking organization . |
| 29 | I shall simply say that Lord Hailsham 's ‘ little ewe lamb ’ has not in practice proved to be the liberalising measure which he had hoped . |
| 30 | Thus in computers oriented to particular tasks , we can tailor the instruction set to the application area ; several examples are given in Husson ( 1970 , Chapter 3 ) . |