Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bourequat brothers — three French citizens who had been imprisoned without charge for over 17 years — were pardoned by King Hassan II on Dec. 30 and returned to France on Jan. 3 . |
| 2 | The best coaches will recognise this and set to work . |
| 3 | No. 21E ( formerly 46 ) is recorded as being sent to Charlton Works for an annual overhaul in October 1933 and returned to Thornton Heath in ‘ L.C.C . |
| 4 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 5 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 6 | Courses will start on February 12 and run to March 11 . |
| 7 | The bitter brew , more than 140 years old and known to regulars as Pink Guinness , is a secret mix of tinctures and extracts topped with an effervescent tablet . |
| 8 | As Rousseau said , ‘ yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and conform to wills which are not his own ’ . |
| 9 | The South Americans have come from a five-nation tournament in Hamburg , where they beat Spain 2-1 and lost to Australia 3-2 . |
| 10 | The worldwide semiconductor industry is expected to reach $71,900m by the end of 1993 and grow to $96,000m by 1996 , according to a forecast prepared by World Semiconductor Trade Statistics Inc for the San Jose-based Semiconductor Industry Association . |
| 11 | After Clare 's sudden departure from Saracen , Miranda had immediately located her through friends , then telephoned and urged her sister to be sensible and apologize to Elinor , ‘ because we all know you really love Gran ’ . |
| 12 | But at other times , as we also know , people can be remarkably altruistic and committed to others . |
| 13 | For many older people this taboo is unhelpful and leads to difficulties , including an inability to prepare for and come to terms with the realities of old age , with physical and mental decline , and ultimately with death itself . |
| 14 | Work-group norms are usually more subtle and less universal and relate to behaviour within a part of the organization . |
| 15 | Mary Tudor rode to London in order to claim the throne and with the intention of reinstating the Roman Catholic Church , but the fact that she was married to Philip of Spain and wished to make him King of England , was also not acceptable and led to hostility in London . |
| 16 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 17 | An observation statement , formulated in a public language , will be testable and open to modification or rejection . |
| 18 | A lacquer-mounted serpentine commode chest dated around 1775 and attributed to Thomas Chippendale will provide the focus of this sale of English furniture . |
| 19 | In general , women and their activities are mystically potent , but also dangerous and threatening to men . |
| 20 | As it sought to serve a predominantly rural region in which the WEA in earlier years had found its own main strength in urban areas , the rural areas were relatively untouched and open to university initiatives when the 1932 Adult Education Regulations were introduced . |
| 21 | She starts small children in group classes of three or four , introducing them to instruments and devising musical games which involve listening and responding to music . |
| 22 | It was warm and sprang to life immediately . |
| 23 | Counselling is concerned with coping mechanisms which may be related to physical health problems , or may be personal and linked to relationships , or sociocultural issues including spiritual beliefs , or may be linked to economic difficulties . |
| 24 | Hatch resigned his appointment in 1892 and went to work as a mining engineer in Johannesburg . |
| 25 | Due to the efforts of Bruce Harris and Casa Alianza in Guatemala City and appeals from thousands of Amnesty International supporters the policemen were found guilty of his murder in March 1991 and sentenced to prison terms ranging between 10 and 15 years . |
| 26 | 1.32 Patients now have an entitlement to see their own medical records under the Access to Health Records Act 1990 which came into force on 1 November 1991 and applies to records created after that date . |
| 27 | She finished eating , hoping she could elude Roman and get to Dana 's hotel without him , but as soon as she put her cup down he was urging her to her feet . |
| 28 | Caroline was delighted and set to work transforming her straight , shoulder-length hair into a glamorous new look . |
| 29 | Further , there is the problem of the practice of censorship once introduced , as to whether it would focus on the kinds of sexual behaviour which are violent and degrading to women , or whether it would be used to ban representations of sexual behaviour that feminists found acceptable , such as non-violent gay and lesbian sex . |
| 30 | Nationally , electricity disconnections total over 91,000 and gas nearly 30,000 and according to Richard Berthoud 's comprehensive study , Fuel Debts and Hardship , published by the Policy Studies Institute in 1981 , about a third of disconnected customers have pre-school children . |