Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] to [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This amounted to some 100 suicides per 100,000 Greenlanders , or nearly 17 times the rate in 1960 . |
| 2 | During the 1970s , knowledge of stratospheric chemistry improved considerably and this led to some radical rethinking of the effect of oxides of nitrogen on the ozone layer , as illustrated by the World Health Organization statements concerning the potential effect of aircraft emissions . |
| 3 | At the same time a fairly substantial Luftwaffe attack was launched against Malta by the units briefly based in Sicily , and this led to some severe fighting over the island on 6 May . |
| 4 | I wondered if this happened to many other smokers . |
| 5 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear , since we first came to this terrible place you are the only person to show me true consideration . ’ |