Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] to [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since much of the work on coffee plantations was seasonal , most of these workers returned to India once the harvest was over . |
| 2 | Mathematics competitions in the UK have traditionally been elitist affairs designed to single out a few extraordinary individuals and effectively to exclude the rest . |
| 3 | This will happen regardless of the efforts made to phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , which are responsible for depletion of the ozone layer . |
| 4 | At the end of the fourth week the players moved to Edinburgh where The Confidential Clerk was to open at the Lyceum on 25 August . |
| 5 | The shortage of housing is so acute that the vast Cairene cemeteries , known as the City of the Dead , host a population of squatters thought to number over a million . |
| 6 | Only in 1914 were Indonesians admitted to schools where the medium was Dutch ( these were intended for Dutch and Eurasian students ) . |