Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun pl] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smaller landlords who could not find cash or credit to equip themselves as sugar planters quickly sold out ; land prices in the 1640s rose to heights which showed that the profits of sugar were being anticipated and capitalized generously . |
| 2 | A pause , in which she tried to feet what Rose was struggling to say . |
| 3 | Her disappointment turned to tears which dripped into the congealing eggs . |
| 4 | All these colonies belonged to powers whose empire-building had begun in the age of the great discoveries ; Germany and Italy had not yet entered the picture . |
| 5 | He had noted the recurrence of surnames among deaf people and deduced it was highly probable that a considerable proportion of deaf people in the country belonged to families which had more than one deaf member , and suspected that the reasons for this were hereditary . |
| 6 | Rather more than half the wealth of Coventry belonged to men whose assessments reached three figures in 1522 ; in Exeter just under half . |
| 7 | The movement of peoples , associated with the great increase in population of the thirteenth century , led to wars which , for example , in Spain were associated with the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from Moorish control , but which were also waged to satisfy the urge to find new lands , as was to happen in northern and eastern Germany under the rule of the Teutonic Knights . |
| 8 | Both led to memoirs which became classics . |
| 9 | ‘ Last year we went to Jumieges which is a magnificent and vast ruin between Rouen and le Havre on the Seine . |
| 10 | Secondly he owes bonds were immediately sold to another part of the same part of the organisation again at a discount , so that cost the pension funds even more money , and to the final injury the payment of that cash for the er treasury bonds went to accounts which were not the property of the pension funds at all . |
| 11 | Seven of the top 10 places in the table went to banks which had a role in the BAT bid . |
| 12 | Often they were detailed and informative ; and many were published under pressure from the House of Commons rather than by the free decision of the government , though the fact that they normally related to negotiations which had been concluded rather than to any still in progress inevitably limited their usefulness as a weapon of parliamentary control . |
| 13 | This ‘ core ’ curriculum will make a useful and important contribution , but its elaboration pointed to trends which are as troublesome as the perception of a currently inadequate training provision . |