Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier talks on a Franco — Italian-Benelux customs union had come to little , partly because the economies involved were too competitive . |
| 2 | The problem was the aristocratic aestheticism that the court nobility had bequeathed to Viennese bourgeois culture . |
| 3 | His bride was called Anne Nickerson , the daughter of an Essex landowner whose reluctant consent to an army marriage had turned to whole-hearted approval when Peter d'Alembord had put up his captaincy for sale . |
| 4 | Margaret had been coping a little better and her sleep pattern had returned to normal . |
| 5 | Such a narrow focus on state coercion had led to limited , superficial and largely sterile debate about the notion of Japan Incorporated . |
| 6 | Under existing arrangements oil revenues were simply added to government revenue , and in recent years concern had grown among all political parties that the oil boom had led to wasteful investment . |