Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [prep] [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a Serbian family in the village of Zakuti sold some of their land to Albanians , the local committee of the Party decided that this was an act of ‘ treachery ’ , and demanded that in future the law banning sales to other nationalities should be strictly enforced . |
| 2 | Their Lordships devoted little of their speeches to the possibility of allowing duress to function as a qualified defence to murder , reducing the crime to manslaughter and leaving the judge to pass an appropriate sentence . |
| 3 | To keep up production , management moved some of their staff to a factory in France . |
| 4 | At first they devoted much of their energy to bringing the fruits of ‘ scientific socialism ’ to a limited number of hand-picked workers . |
| 5 | Her mother , Juanita Beckett , daughter of a brigadier-general and granddaughter of a field marshal , was an enthusiastic but not especially talented pianist , and devoted much of her time to practising a particularly thunderous rendition of Sibelius 's Valse Triste . |
| 6 | Lady Franklin , a ‘ lioness of a woman ’ with a lively sense of curiosity and a keen intelligence , devoted much of her time to promoting the visual arts in the infant colony , and took an avid interest in Mrs Gould 's work for her husband . |
| 7 | A champion of public footpaths , he devoted much of his life to helping young people to begin walking . |
| 8 | In 1965 , Lyndon Johnson , who , according to Atkin , wanted to be remembered as the ‘ Education President ’ , devoted much of his energies to the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act , which appropriated large sums of money for a compensatory education programme . |
| 9 | From the early 1920s Chiang devoted much of his attention to suppressing his communist rivals rather than forming a united front with them to resist the Japanese , but they established a strong base in the northwest following the Long March of 1934 . |
| 10 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes ( 1803–49 ) had an obsession with death , and devoted much of his time to polishing his dramatic poem , Death 's Jest-Book , which was published after his death . |
| 11 | Even Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) , although not directly influenced by Joachim , devoted much of his time to the correlation of prophecy , history , and the end of the world . |
| 12 | Haig was made an earl in 1919 and after the war devoted much of his time to organizing the British Legion and to work on behalf of disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 13 | At Woolwich Dobbie joined a group of the Plymouth Brethren and devoted much of his time to Sunday school and soldiers ' welfare work . |
| 14 | Speaking to both houses of Congress only 13 days after ordering United States forces into combat against Iraq , the President devoted much of his oration to the Gulf war , passages which were greeted by thunderous applause and standing ovations [ see p. 37940 ] . |
| 15 | There was only himself and the vast , endless mansion of the skies , and Fergus , used all of his life to human companionship , thought that this solitude would be more than he could bear . |
| 16 | They thought they could regain his soul by sorcery , and so they devoted all of their time to weaving a spell to do so . |
| 17 | The Labour leader , John Smith , in a tribute , said : ‘ Reg Underhill was a great servant of the Labour Party who devoted most of his life to the vital organisational work without which no political party can succeed . |
| 18 | Thereafter , he devoted most of his energies to the attempt to develop debate about alternative foreign policy in pacifist , liberal and socialist circles . |
| 19 | As it happens , my right hon. Friend the Chancellor devoted most of his speech to doing precisely that , but I did not detect a great deal of interest on the Opposition Benches in what he had to say . |
| 20 | he seldom committed any of his designs to paper , though sometimes , to explain a special feature or new idea , he would use a sharp stone to draw on one of the smooth boulders which surrounded the dock . |
| 21 | Clark demonstrates that older people tried , where possible , to set up contractually based arrangements ( some of them enforceable through the courts ) to secure their livelihood and care in old age , through a system whereby they surrendered some of their rights to their land to a specified individual , in return for agreed services — ‘ individually arranged pension benefits ’ ( ibid . |
| 22 | Starting in 1672 , when he acquired the directorship of the Académie Royale de Musique , he turned most of his attention to opéra , composing approximately one a year until his death in 1687 . |
| 23 | One wonders whether he observed this on his visits to Hailing as the houses of the villagers spread down to the river near the Palace , an ideal place for the collecting of rushes . |
| 24 | Last year they loaned some of their acquisitions to the Barbican Centre for the exhibition ‘ Japan and Britain : an aesthetic dialogue 1850–1930 ’ . |
| 25 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |
| 26 | The re-organization of the courts of justice , long recognized as necessary but not previously attempted , owed much for its implementation to the perseverance of Gardiner . |
| 27 | Schemes of public works financed directly by central government owed much of their inspiration to Lloyd George 's yellow book , We Can Conquer Unemployment , and his own work as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 28 | Grundy , had a weak case because she owed much of her success to Neighbours . |
| 29 | But he would be the first to admit he owed most of his success to his wife Renee . |
| 30 | They addressed most of their conversation to Zimmerman and his wife , occasionally deigned , as it were under protest , to speak to the Frenchmen , but pointedly avoided addressing the fräulein at all . |