Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards external mediation efforts , the European Community ( EC ) moved to the imposition of sanctions on Yugoslavia , while at the UN there was increasingly urgent consideration of a mission by peacekeeping forces . |
| 2 | She does not pretend that Ben 's ordeal resulted directly from the ban , but she believes it contributed to the chain of events which led inexorably to his present stay in south-east London 's Bethlem Hospital . |
| 3 | Sylvie drew to the accompaniment of voices . |
| 4 | This is evidenced by the greater time and effort devoted to the selection of schools by the Coordinating Team , by the absence of the link person role for Minor Project schools , and by the scale of the development implied by the larger sums involved . |
| 5 | I regret that it is not possible separately to identify the money devoted to the range of conditions associated with the menopause from the £225 million spent on medical research last year . |
| 6 | There are a number of concerts during the session devoted to the performance of students ' compositions . |
| 7 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 8 | Crashed to the shout of men , the clang of arms : |
| 9 | Mrs referred to the schedule of grants for voluntary organizations . |
| 10 | In a post-war broadcast in 1946 , he referred to the development of eight-feet wide trams with resilient wheels which he hoped to introduce to Blackpool , and these were manifested in the 1952 Coronation trams . |
| 11 | Well , there 's nothing , as I understand it there is nothing in the Law Society guidelines but there are certainly references in the professional conduct guidelines which Mr has referred to in the course of this report er which referred to the extent of solicitors in the situation . |
| 12 | When Behaviouralists objected to the presence of unobservables in Realist theories , they did so in the name of science and the same basic idea of what science demands . |
| 13 | The commons presented a series of articles in which they objected to the levying of prises and insisted that ‘ no free man should be assessed or taxed without the common assent of parliament ’ . |
| 14 | What is more , 20 million tonnes of imported coal means another £1,000 million added to the balance of payments deficit . |
| 15 | Is that opposed to the number of adults |
| 16 | Those wonderful mornings in summer when the larks rose high over the mountains and you woke to the sound of cowbells and the sun streaming in through the window ? |
| 17 | He woke to the sound of Sweepers dragging rotting corpses along the corridor outside his hiding place . |
| 18 | The trial judge held that the later version of Oscar did not infringe the " Adapter " copyright and the plaintiff appealed to the Court of Appeals which confirmed the decision of the trial judge . |
| 19 | Charles I 's government gave the bishops its firm backing on this issue ; when the parishioners of St Gregory 's in London appealed to the Court of Arches against a directive from the dean and chapter of St Paul 's Cathedral concerning the position of their communion table , no less a body than the privy council itself intervened with an order in favour of the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 20 | China appealed to the League of Nations for support against the Japanese occupation and in December 1931 a commission was set up under Lord Lytton to investigate the situation . |
| 21 | NICK KNIGHT 'S fighting qualities came to the rescue of champions Essex as they were made to struggle for runs in reply to Northants ' 444 for nine declared at Chelmsford . |
| 22 | Its purpose is chiefly to add entries for new words and new meanings of words : ‘ new ’ implying that they came into existence , or came to the attention of scholars , after the relevant part of OED was published , and therefore could not be inserted in the main work . |
| 23 | Then Mr Healey came to the changing of nations . |
| 24 | These early settlers used to heat their cabins in winter with coal which they could gather from the mountain-sides , and this natural resource also came to the notice of entrepreneurs . |
| 25 | ‘ My best creation , ’ he muttered to the coterie of assistants clustered anxiously around him , ‘ and see what has happened to it ! ’ |
| 26 | There were gatherings in the parks where young people read their poetry and sang and danced to the music of guitars ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 770 ) . |
| 27 | The Act of 1988 was designed precisely to ensure that the fish quotas allocated to the United Kingdom actually enured to the benefit of persons for whom they were intended . |
| 28 | He nodded to the pile of papers he 'd withdrawn earlier from his briefcase . |
| 29 | I returned to the clutch of reports on my desk . |
| 30 | In 1606 he returned to the financing of colonies . |