Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 2 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 3 | Haydon failed to come to any agreement with his creditors . |
| 4 | However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens . |
| 5 | After Victoria 's accession Lehzen , never skilled in personal relationships , failed to adjust to changed circumstances and her charge 's coming of age . |
| 6 | Mo agreed that even politicians could not please everybody and moved to talk to 31-year-old Sandra Gordon-Morgan , a part-time dressmaking teacher who lost her job when the local authority cut its adult education budget . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher tried to respond to social critics by emphasizing the government 's caring image in help for the elderly and programmes for schools . |
| 8 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
| 9 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 10 | They were given tea and biscuits , invited to watch a favourite soap opera on the television , then made to listen to current hits from the charts played for them by a young man called Danny on his ghetto-blaster . |
| 11 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 12 | The death penalty could also be applied to those who refused baptism , failed to conform to ecclesiastical disciplines given out by missionary leaders , or who refused to fast in Lent . |
| 13 | They were arrested as they prepared to go to another rave in Ashington . |
| 14 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 15 | The latest developments have emerged a year after police in Coatbridge received surprising new information about the case , believed to relate to confirmed sightings of Moira on the night she disappeared . |
| 16 | The Witnesses of the Total Merge catalogued all those ships believed to belong to other client species of the Capellans . |
| 17 | ‘ There used to be plenty — small perch , and pike , and eel — but they never seemed to grow to any size . ’ |
| 18 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 19 | She looked from face to face in the darkness , faces that seemed to belong to hideous inquisitors , with the torch beams casting harsh angular shadows from below into their upturned faces . |
| 20 | But she had turned her face to the camera and it had caught a look that she could find nowhere else and indeed that seemed to belong to another girl ; she barely recognised herself . |
| 21 | But the rest seemed to belong to another artist . |
| 22 | But it might be months , or even years away , for it seemed to belong to another person , a different life . |
| 23 | The handsome and sombre costumes , historically accurate , are relieved by colour only in the auto-da-fe , which seemed to belong to another production and signally failed to make the flesh creep , even when the fire was lit in the victims ' underground cage . |
| 24 | The events of Asyut seemed to belong to another world . |
| 25 | These two sorts of women seemed to belong to different species , being sisters only under their knickers , whether these came from Janet Reger or the British Home Stores . |
| 26 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 27 | The answer seemed to point to substantial cuts in price support together with a better re-distribution of budget towards smaller producers . |
| 28 | On the one hand some psycholinguistic data seemed to point to word-by-word recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 ; Marslen-Wilson & Welsh 1978 ) . |
| 29 | It was some time before the police learnt to react to these invasions by stealing the skins ' bootlaces and in some cases their braces . |
| 30 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |