Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As we have seen above , discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other . |
| 3 | On-coming cars skidded to either side , slamming into basement dwellings , ploughing along sidewalks , overturning and bursting into flames . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | These commercial ventures led to many disputes , and Love was extremely litigious , appearing often as a plaintiff in Chancery . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In early 1989 , violent riots led to more arrests and killings and the eventual imposition of martial law . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The estimated cost of all these improvements amounted to some £18,000 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Parents love each child , and it grieves them to witness the hitting , hurting and hateful things said to each other . |
| 14 | Both have figured in the last major exhibitions devoted to these painters . |
| 15 | Cistercian abbeys fell to some extent outside this category . |
| 16 | In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges . |
| 17 | On the first day of the Ajdabiyan ballot many young men went to some length to insist that what was about to occur was closer to Athenian practice than anything that could possibly occur in Britain ; their disappointment at the outcome of the day was movingly transparent . |
| 18 | For example , a child who is sociable , and is likely to benefit from social and linguistic interactions with other children , may be best placed in an ordinary classroom but with special periods devoted to those areas of language which are giving cause for concern . |