Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office , he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Medieval church went to some lengths to specify the roles of particular stones in religious imagery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This find led to much speculation about what scents these birds might follow . |
| 7 | This system led to many problems . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The Chief Executive wrote to all Directors of Education and Principals/Directors of colleges in late September extending such an invitation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A good course programme but with a poor instructor led to more trainee dissatisfaction than a good instructor with a moderate programme . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Eternal life seemed to most Christians — and therefore to most people — in the later nineteenth century to be central to their religion . |
| 14 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |
| 15 | This will be the first exhibition devoted to this aspect of Canaletto 's work to be held for thirty years , and lenders will include H.M.The Queen , the National Gallery , the National Trust and many private and public collections . |
| 16 | However , there has been a superficial gloss lent to this music by its very popularity , which obscures the no less beautiful , but more demanding masterpieces of the later period , notably the Harpsichord Concerto and El Retablo , and the coupling of the latter with the sparser , bolder first version of El Amor brujo works well in principle . |
| 17 | In Trinidad meanwhile , Eric Williams ' fears about the West Indies succumbing to American imperialism had to some extent been realised . |
| 18 | Maybe this new restraint appealed to most people , perhaps everyone felt more comfortable with prudishness . |
| 19 | And even fewer realise how close invasion came to this part of the world . |
| 20 | More frequent criminal offending led to more people being sentenced to imprisonment , although not pro-rata because of the distinction between indictable and non-indictable offences . |
| 21 | In effect , the concern to increase calibre embodies a concern to recapture the social relations , style of politics , and class of leadership , that existed before the franchise was extended and before the working class rose to some sort of local political power through the Labour Party . |
| 22 | From our study , however , there was no evidence that supplemental oxygen led to any reduction of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias in patients over 60 . |
| 23 | Stairs led up ; the wood-panelled hall led to another set of stairs going down . |
| 24 | The subsequent punch-up led to such headlines as ‘ Go Home Mr. Dors And Take Diana With You ’ . |
| 25 | This would give greater predictability to litigants and presumably effect a reduction in the amount of judicial time devoted to these matters . |