Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did the general public have a very high regard of embalming , believing it to be another unnecessary luxury meted out to the corpses of the rich . |
| 2 | Some kindly English Burma police were with us and whenever the boat tied up to the banks would slip ashore and bring back fruit for us . |
| 3 | Previous Marxist descriptions of the democratic state as a nakedly repressive apparatus attuned only to the behests of capitalists sat unsatisfactorily with the apparent emergence of government planning and ‘ caring capitalism ’ , at least in the period from the early 1950s to the late 1970s . |
| 4 | She must have thought she was using some magic password known only to the foreigners who drank this strange golden liquid in preference to kava . |
| 5 | Yoshida declared himself to be a liberal opposed equally to the excesses of the left and right . |
| 6 | For some reason known only to the Fellows I was nominated as senior of the four scholars of my year . |
| 7 | Play materials should be used in a situation where there is good lighting directed on to the toys and objects being used . |
| 8 | You want your audience doped up to the eyeballs in feelgood factor . |
| 9 | The trip down would start off quietly for a while , everyone busily engaged in talking with friends , but soon the holiday spirit would prevail and after the first stop , singing would start , and then arriving at our destination , coaches to be unloaded , mountains of food carted on to the sands , and the task of enjoying oneself began . |
| 10 | The merchants had the cash , but the weakening aristocracy held on to the reins of government . |
| 11 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 12 | During a DHAC demonstration in the Guildhall , Alderman Hegarty of the Nationalist Party called out to the demonstrators : ‘ It is just unfortunate that you have come under the influence of card-bearing members of the Communist committee . ’ |