Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposals to amend the 1976 Organic Law had been contained in the campaign of the " grand alliance " — an amalgam of pro-Chinese and business interests and Macanese ( people of mixed Chinese and Portuguese blood ) — for the October 1988 elections to the Legislative Assembly [ see p. 36765 ] . |
| 2 | And it was with this development that the company expanded internationally ; it prompted Harlequin , a Canadian based publishing house to approach Mills and Boon for the North American rights to some of their titles . |
| 3 | On her return , she travelled to Harrogate for special coaching with international player David Pearson , in preparation for the World Junior Championships to be held in Malaysia in July . |
| 4 | When they do vote , they usually cast their votes on national issues : Neil Kinnock called for the June 1989 elections to be a judgement on Mrs Thatcher 's term in office . |
| 5 | And Charles explained briefly about the gift inter vivos to Nigel . |
| 6 | The American revivalist hymn ‘ Amazing Grace ’ ( c. 1800 ) is an excellent example of the symmetries Maróthy ascribes to bourgeois song ( Maróthy 1974 ) . |
| 7 | The sample is composed of the September 1982 entrants to reception classes in 33 ILEA infant schools in multi-racial areas . |
| 8 | The result of the Oct. 3 elections to an expanded 503-member Chamber of Deputies raised doubts about the government 's initial confidence ( based on exit polls ) that it would commanded a majority in the congress [ see p. 37774 ] . |
| 9 | Independence was the achievement of a heroic minority working with a myth — the ‘ slavery ’ of the South American populations to Spanish despotism . |
| 10 | Lash and Urry ( 1987 ) , for instance , write of the break-up of ‘ organized capitalism ’ and the development of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ , in the variable responses of the United States and some of the West European nations to the end of the post-war boom ; Piore and Sabel ( 1984 ) write of a ‘ second industrial divide ’ opening up in societies as a result of the development of flexible manufacturing systems . |
| 11 | In the sixteenth century , Roman Catholicism was ripe for reform , but Luther 's success depended less on religious conviction than on the determination of the north German princes to be rid of the political influence of Rome . |
| 12 | Results of the May 31 elections to the bicameral FRY Assembly , held separately in the constituent republics of Serbia and Montenegro alongside republican assembly elections [ see p. 38919 ] , were as follows . |
| 13 | Similarly , the evidence of the London Clearing Banks to the same committee stated : ‘ There is certainly no evidence to suggest that the availability of bank finance has been even a remotely significant factor holding investment back . ’ |
| 14 | The injury put me out of the World Indoor Championships to be staged in March in Indianapolis . |
| 15 | In a secret ballot , Havel received the required three-fifths majority in both chambers , with 114 votes to 25 against in the Chamber of the People , and in the Chamber of the Nations 63 votes to nine against in the Czech section and 57 votes to 16 against in the Slovak section . |
| 16 | " The examination being closed we then distributed under the recommendation of the Examiner various Books to the boys who had chiefly distinguished themselves as a reward for assiduity and good conduct , and as an incitement to future exertions which were received by them with marked satisfaction . " |
| 17 | With a potential 900,000 pounds to be earned from ticket sales alone , the rave scene culture is now moving into the world of big business . |
| 18 | But it had been a heavy agenda : the revised safety plan still in draft ; the rationalization of the internal structure from the present seven departments to three under engineering , production and resources ; the report of the district survey laboratory on their monitoring of the environment ; the preliminary agenda for the local liaison committee . |
| 19 | After coming back from the holiday regular outings to the pictures , ice-skating rink and other activities are planned , culminating in another holiday , this time in Northern Ireland , at the end of the summer , ’ Adree explained . |
| 20 | The UDHK had won 12 of the 18 directly elected seats in the September 1991 elections to the Legislative Council [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 21 | Though doubtless partly motivated by a desire to draw the reader away from his own personal life , Eliot was serious in pointing out that , ‘ Anyone who is acquainted with these works [ of Weston and Frazer ] will immediately recognize in the poem certain references to vegetation ceremonies ’ , which , as in the quatrain poems , were associated with religion and human sexuality . |
| 22 | The loss in the general election of one of the Nevis seats held by the NRP ( which had retained four seats in the December 1987 elections to the Nevis island Assembly ) to the CCM ( which had gained the remaining elective seat ) revived speculation about the eventual secession of Nevis from the federation . |
| 23 | Most of the empire for which they were responsible had been settled by people outside the Church of England , of whom the majority were nonconformist Protestants , though there were a fair number of Roman Catholics in Maryland and in the West Indian islands to which Irishmen had gone . |
| 24 | But the old Gamoroi , the ‘ land-holders ’ , at Syracuse kept up their Dorian loyalties , occasionally sending numerically small but often in the event significant contributions to Sparta in her struggles at home in the fifth and fourth centuries ( see too p. 187 for the way the favour was returned ) . |
| 25 | It was nearly five o'clock and dark before Detective-Inspector Doyle got back to his home in the village four miles to the north of Cambridge . |
| 26 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 27 | In the March 1990 elections to the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies , many Communist Party members , who had been nominated as candidates refused to be part of the official parliamentary fraction of the CPSU . |
| 28 | Later in the year British exports to the EC rose and left a gap for the NZ product ‘ and this is where our strategy over the past few years paid off . ’ |
| 29 | Therefore , after due consideration , the Council sold their powers in the Mitcham Light Railways to the British Electric Traction Co. for £1,000 on 15 January 1902 . |
| 30 | Their debacle against Essex , when the last eight wickets went down in the final 20 overs to Mark Ilott and John Childs , reflected a temperamental flaw that has repeatedly dogged the county . |