Example sentences of "in [adj] [coord] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislation which made official Jewish equality of citizenship rights was passed in the Norddeutschen Bund in 1869 and extended to a united Germany in 1871 . |
| 2 | He knew Sir Harry , as he knew most of the British ministers , well enough to drop titles in private and revert to first names . |
| 3 | In 1960 , Arnold Palmer birdied the hole to win but the following year took a duffer 's six to lose ; Hubert Green missed a putt of three feet to tie in 1978 ; Ed Sneed wilted in 1979 , taking a bogey five when a par would have won ; Greg Norman needed a par to tie with Nicklaus in 1986 but succumbed to a blocked second shot ; Larry Mize birdied the hole in 1987 to force a play-off with Severiano Ballesteros and Norman , which Mize won . |
| 4 | Berwick was attacked by the Scots in 1312 , and regained in 1318 ; besieged by Edward II in 1319 ; taken by the English in 1333 ; burned by James Douglas in 1405 ; ceded to Scotland in 1461 and returned to England in 1482 — where it remains , wrongly in my opinion , to this day . |
| 5 | He sold the chemist 's business in 1872 and moved to new premises at Plymouth Hoe . |
| 6 | Er and erm I used to put it in this and go to out into the mess room outside where they there was a cook and it was a very grand name for a person you know , a cook . |
| 7 | Burntisland shipped 190,000 in 1876 and jumped to over 500,000 tons by 1880 . |
| 8 | Caradon was bought from publishers Reed International for £61m in 1985 and came to the stock market in June 1987 with an initial market value of £134m . |
| 9 | He had been sidelined by injury in 1985 and seemed to be playing a cat-and-mouse game with everybody in this year . |
| 10 | Between 1984 and 1987 he was managing director of , a family owned business which was floated on the USM in 1985 and sold to in 1986 . |
| 11 | Hatch resigned his appointment in 1892 and went to work as a mining engineer in Johannesburg . |
| 12 | One of the leaders of the Beijing Spring movement in 1978-79 which had created a " Democracy Wall " in the capital , Wei had been arrested in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years in prison [ see pp. 30495-96 ] . |
| 13 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 14 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 15 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |
| 16 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 17 | David Wright was born in South Africa in 1920 and came to England as a teenager . |
| 18 | They were equivalent to 0.57 per cent of an individual 's income in 1975 but fell to 0.35 and 0.4 per cent in the early 1980s . |
| 19 | Peckham graduated from Cambridge in 1960 and went to University College Hospital in London , where he worked with Gwen Hilton . |
| 20 | Probably the best known of the quartets in Britain is No. 8 , composed in Dresden in 1960 and dedicated to the victims of Fascism and of the War , and in view of the constant use of the DSCH motif and the quotations from several of his own pieces , there can be little doubt that Shostakovich considered himself among their number . |
| 21 | But this sophisticated attempt to deal with exhibitor resistance to British films was ruled illegal by the US Justice Department in 1946 and had to be replaced by a less ambitious system , in which Rank 's films were sold on their merits . |
| 22 | She is known from her single volume of Poems on Several Occasions , published anonymously in Canterbury in 1740 but attributed to her in inscriptions in the Bodleian and British Library copies of the book . |
| 23 | Largely as a result of machinations and pressure by the king of France , the Order of Knights Templar was subjected to papal scrutiny in 1308 and condemned to dissolution in 1312 . |
| 24 | Walter J. Moore 's Physical Chemistry , which first appeared in 1950 and ran to five editions , has now been succeeded by his Basic Physical Chemistry ( Prentice-Hall ) . |
| 25 | He was transferred to India in 1902 and appointed to the geodetic branch of the Survey of India in 1906 . |
| 26 | The couple were married in 1964 and moved to Maghull , before settling in Formby where Mr Ryder set up as a pharmacist and postmaster . |
| 27 | It 's worthwhile reading some pre-Shakespearean drama ; you could read Everyman , a great morality play of the late Middle Ages , and Gammer Gurton 's Needle , first performed in 1566 and thought to be the second oldest English comedy . |
| 28 | Commissioned in 1914 and attached to the Royal Naval Air Service , he designed two rotary aero-engines , BR1 and BR2 , which were successfully fitted to the Sopwith Camel and Snipe respectively . |
| 29 | In a further twist , a book by Theodor B. Donson , entitled Prints and the Print Market , published in 1977 and brought to the attention of The Art Newspaper by a restorer from Chicago , is now being used as evidence to back up the defence against Goldreyer 's extraordinary libel suits against critics of his restoration , totalling no less than $125 million . |
| 30 | Jacob Abendana followed up this success with a Spanish translation of Judah HaLevi 's twelfth-century Kuzari , which was published in 1663 and dedicated to Sir William Davidson , the English resident in Holland . |