Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 2 | In 1 184 Richard returned to this area , founding a new town and castle at the bridge over the River Creuse at St Rémi de la Haye , about twelve miles on the other side of Châtellerault . |
| 3 | At any one time only two out of five surnames in the parish were those of this hard core of families , but four out of five of the total entries belonged to this group . |
| 4 | As we have seen above , discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other . |
| 5 | On-coming cars skidded to either side , slamming into basement dwellings , ploughing along sidewalks , overturning and bursting into flames . |
| 6 | In Britain the impact of prehistoric man has been considered by physical geographers and in a thematic issue of the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers devoted to this research ( Curtis and Simmons , 1976 , p. 257 ) it was explained that : |
| 7 | When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office , he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform . |
| 8 | These commercial ventures led to many disputes , and Love was extremely litigious , appearing often as a plaintiff in Chancery . |
| 9 | An open door opposite gave a glimpse of rows of barrels , and next to it a short flight of wooden stairs led to another door above the store-room . |
| 10 | And this man went to another church not so very far away so we knew what happened and certainly we were very glad we accepted our doctor 's opinion . |
| 11 | The Medieval church went to some lengths to specify the roles of particular stones in religious imagery . |
| 12 | Lack of proper food led to much illness among seamen , both directly and in deficiency diseases such as scurvy and beri-beri and indirectly by reducing their resistance to other ailments . |
| 13 | This find led to much speculation about what scents these birds might follow . |
| 14 | This system led to many problems . |
| 15 | Walker , for example , reports on Pavlov 's success in training one dog to salivate to middle C , whether played on a clarinet , tuning fork , or organ pipe , but to no other note varying by more than a semitone however played ; whereas another animal reacted to any notes but only when reproduced by one particular instrument ( 1983 : 246 ) . |
| 16 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 17 | The possibility that natural communities could be visualized in similar terms occurred to many biologists in the later decades of the century , thus providing an incentive to study the interactions upon which the whole network depended . |
| 18 | The Chief Executive wrote to all Directors of Education and Principals/Directors of colleges in late September extending such an invitation . |
| 19 | In early 1989 , violent riots led to more arrests and killings and the eventual imposition of martial law . |
| 20 | In each year , less than 800 of these cases led to any form of criminal or disciplinary action , and the vast majority of even this small number involved nothing more severe than ‘ advice or admonishment ’ — 651 of the 766 cases in 1987 , for example . |
| 21 | The estimated cost of all these improvements amounted to some £18,000 . |
| 22 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 23 | This division of labour by artefact type epitomises attitudes towards archaeology generally at that time , and such divisions have to a large extent persisted to this day , emphasising how artefact-based early Anglo-Saxon studies have remained . |
| 24 | Parents love each child , and it grieves them to witness the hitting , hurting and hateful things said to each other . |
| 25 | A good course programme but with a poor instructor led to more trainee dissatisfaction than a good instructor with a moderate programme . |
| 26 | Up to 1989 , Eastern Europe looked to most people depressed but stable . |
| 27 | Both have figured in the last major exhibitions devoted to these painters . |
| 28 | Cistercian abbeys fell to some extent outside this category . |
| 29 | Now the medical profession responded to this state of affairs , and created antibiotics , I can assure you today , that if you die of pneumonia , you can sue your doctor , with the greatest of thought that you 'll get paid . |
| 30 | Eternal life seemed to most Christians — and therefore to most people — in the later nineteenth century to be central to their religion . |