Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finubar of Lothern seemed the prince best suited to understanding this new age . |
| 2 | Eliot 's writings on poetry do not contain a systematic theory , but on two matters of principle he adopted a stance strongly opposed to that of Richards : he refused to accept either that poetry consisted in the use of emotive language , or that it was simply a vehicle for communicating the author 's experience to the reader . |
| 3 | Bridgend prop Shaw came over the top at a ruck but Harries pulled his penalty attempt across the posts and five minutes later missed a sitter when the referee reversed a penalty originally awarded to Bridgend . |
| 4 | Coy saw the attitude still applied to his old friend . |
| 5 | The play would turn on two questions : did the man officially claimed to be Rudolf Hess really hang himself , and was he Hess at all ? |
| 6 | A spokesman for the North Western Health Board said the warning only related to Russian vodka brands bought outside the normal distribution channels . |
| 7 | The courts ruled that such companies only had the powers specifically granted to them by Parliament , and the ruling was extended to local authorities despite the fact that they were independently elected , not mere private corporations . |
| 8 | But now , at last , in Lucy he had a person ideally suited to his purposes … a person who was subject to a very powerful propensity . |
| 9 | 281 , save that it extended a principle previously confined to the husband/wife cases to a case of parents giving security for the debts of their son . |
| 10 | He denied it but after she had an abortion allegedly confessed to his wife , who had been too afraid and embarrassed to go to the police . |
| 11 | Colin Renfrew On the international scene , archaeology in those years underwent the revolution sometimes referred to as the ‘ new archaeology ’ and has continued , as I see it , with what is now called processual archaeology : the most important component is a much greater concern to make archaeological theory and reasoning methods explicit . |
| 12 | The closing declaration welcomed the " Enterprise for the Americas Initiative " to promote regional trade and investments , launched by United States President Bush in June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] , but considered the terms initially offered to be " insufficient " . |