Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | A new technique of ‘ direct action ’ , with Bertrand Russell 's blessing though not as yet his participation , began in December 1958 , with a march through the muddy fields of Norfolk leading to the obscure American rocket base at Swaffham . |
| 3 | Today , there is a small octagonal chapel in the Beirut coastal suburb of Antelyas dedicated to the 1915 massacres . |
| 4 | In Treseder-Griffin v Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd [ 1956 ] 2 QB 127 the rent reserved was £1,900 " either in gold sterling or Bank of England notes to the equivalent value in gold sterling " . |
| 5 | 2–11–1911 As " it was impossible for the congregation to meet on the Sabbath the 5th day of November owing to the stormy weather prevailing that day " they resolved to dispense the Lord 's Supper on the next Sabbath . |
| 6 | Moves towards healing in that context were made in 1986 when The United Church of Canada apologised to the Native people and confessed that they had ignored the wisdom and riches of their spiritual traditions . |
| 7 | Maggie immediately thought of Bryce returning to the flooded corridor to save here . |
| 8 | Three counties of the Province of Ulster belong to the Irish Republic — Cavan , Monaghan and Donegal , where I now was . |
| 9 | how many concubine King David son of Solomon have to the nearest hundred ? |
| 10 | It 's wonderful to see the body of Christ mobilised to the lost in a local Church outreach setting and being able to facilitate the challenge . |
| 11 | Much of Bosnia belonged to the medieval Croatian kingdom between the ninth and eleventh centuries , at a time when Hercegovina was largely incorporated into the contemporary Serbian kingdoms . |
| 12 | On Nov. 19 , amid a developing ministerial and media war of words between Egypt and Iran , President Hosni Mubarak rejected " scurrilous " criticisms of Egypt attributed to the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei . |
| 13 | This familiar story about the wedding feast at Cana of Galilee points to the deeper reality there is to be found in Christ . |
| 14 | Oxford Molecular is the dedicated molecular science software house of the University of Oxford committed to the commercial development and professional support of high quality computational chemistry programs selected from the world 's best research laboratories . |
| 15 | Given the image of BA coupled to the lower fares I can see passengers defecting in their droves from the City 's resident airlines . |
| 16 | ‘ The whole of Aquitaine belonged to the English crown , through the great Duchess Eleanor , ’ Rohan explained . |
| 17 | A traditionalist , he was guided by the natural right of succession and in his view , ‘ the house of Stuart succeeded to the full right of both the houses of York and Lancaster , whose common source is the undisputed right . ’ |
| 18 | The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court . |
| 19 | Was it conscientiously possible , in such circumstances , for the Archbishop of Canterbury to recommend to the prime minister that the Archbishop of York should succeed him ? |
| 20 | Their distinctive sound grew from adapting rock forms and instruments , and , eventually , it was in the pubs and folk festivals of Britain that they began to achieve some sort of prominence , while back home the discos of Harare pulsated to the real sound of Whitney Houston . |
| 21 | A classical villa near Arezzo attributed to the famous architect Giorgio Vasari . |
| 22 | However the example I have chosen of the stylistics of manner should make clear the potential difference between the two approaches , and at the same time illustrate the use of a more technically advanced linguistics than that drawn on by Spitzer , who like Auerbach belonged to the European philological tradition more than to the modern tradition of linguistics . |
| 23 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 24 | Inner City 's singer has flown into Detroit to listen to the new single . |
| 25 | Furthermore , partial suppression of this reaction by sinefungin ( compare lane 3 with lane 4 and lane 5 with lane 6 ) suggests that the reaction proceeds via SAM bound to the active site of the enzyme . |
| 26 | McCallen is hoping that the Honda will remain in one piece after tomorrow for it travels on to Donington for the British Championship meeting the next day where it will be ridden by Steve Hislop with McCallen reverting to the slower RC30 Honda . |
| 27 | But she has come to terms with Britain belonging to the European Community and is likely to back the introduction of proportional representation . |
| 28 | The family in early times for Marx belongs to the private domain , rather than to the public and political . |
| 29 | North asked the Second Channel to act as his courier ‘ as a personal favour for the cause we both believe in ’ ; the note was a draft of a speech for Rafsanjani to make to the Iranian parliament . |
| 30 | Is the Minister aware that now that clear decisions have been taken on trust status , anxiety in Sheffield relates to the likely impact of the Chancellor 's autumn statement on the health authority 's financial position next year and in the long term , and particularly the need for greater per capita funding given the number of elderly people and the levels of health inequality and social deprivation in Sheffield , particularly in Attercliffe ? |